Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ph.D.
Presidential Historian and Author of Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic (Oxford University Press | 2024), The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution (Harvard University Press | 2020)
Topics Lindsay Chervinsky can discuss:
- Impeachment in history, as well as current methods, norms, and protocols
- John Adams’s role in protecting the nation from foreign attacks and promoting fair elections
- The importance of a smooth presidential transition
- The purpose of impeachment and its use in this current political moment
- The history of government institutions and how they come to bear on the present
- The purpose of the Presidential Cabinet and why it is still vital today
Bronwen Caroll, MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician and Child Protection Advocate
Topics Dr. Carroll can discuss:
- How child sexual abuse is not just a tragedy, but a public health emergency—and what we can do about it
- How childhood sexual abuse is shockingly common, but largely preventable
- Why grooming behaviors are the tools predators rely on—and how to teach your kids to recognize them and respond
- How to build a family culture where no topic is off-limits
- Age-appropriate strategies for talking to kids from preschool through high school
- Why talking about sexual abuse and sexual assault should be a standard part of child development
- What signs to watch for and how to respond
- Why creating confident, connected children is one of the best ways to protect them What children should know about online safety and pornography
- What young adults should know about sexual assault before heading off to college
- How to talk to teens about healthy relationships
Gretchen Sisson, Ph.D.
Author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood (St. Martin’s Press | 2024)
Topics Gretchen Sisson can discuss:
- Why adoption is not a valid alternative to abortion, and how adoption may change during the post-Roe era
- The role religion, race, and class play in pregnancy decision-making and adoption
- The history of adoption and family separation in the United States
- Debunking the feel-good narrative surrounding adoption, and the coercive messaging pregnant women receive
- The representation of abortion and adoption in American film and television
- Examples include The Handmaid’s Tale, This is Us, and Grey’s Anatomy
- The debate around transnational adoption
Corinna Barrett Lain
Death Penalty Expert, Law Professor, Former Prosecutor and Author at University of Richmond and Author of Secrets of the Killing State (NYU Press | Pub Date: April 22, 2025)
Topics Corinna Barrett Lain can discuss:
- What Donald Trump’s executive order on “Restoring the Death Penalty” means, and what it can and cannot do both legally and as a practical matter.
- Why lethal injection is not, as people think, like putting down a beloved pet.
- What the problems with lethal injection are, how they came about, and why they matter.
- How lethal injection came to be, and what that tells us about the real work it is doing.
- What prison officials have done behind closed doors: broken state and federal laws, falsified prescriptions, injected the wrong drugs, and more.
- What we know about the newest execution innovation—nitrogen gas.
- Why states are turning to the firing squad, and why prisoners may choose it.
- How executions impose trauma on the prison personnel forced to conduct them, and the implications of that phenomenon.
- How states use secrecy—including but not limited to secrecy statutes—to hide the reality of lethal injection from the American public.