Gordon H. Chang, Senior Associate Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, Stanford University

Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities at Stanford. His research and teaching focuses on the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America, on the one hand, and foreign relations, on the other. He’s the author of numerous books, including Ghosts of Gold Mountain, The Chinese and the Iron Road, Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China and Friends and Enemies: The United States, China and the Soviet Union 1948-1972. His co-authored and edited books include Asian Americans and Politics and Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970.

Margaret K. Lewis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University Law School

Lewis has taught law at Seton Hall since 2009. Her Criminalizing China article (2021) about the U.S. Department of Justice’s China Initiative has generated wide discussion. Lewis’s research focuses on law in China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice and human rights. She’s published widely, participated in the State Department’s U.S.-China legal dialogue and testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. She’s been a practicing attorney, a research fellow at New York University’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, and a U.S. Court of Appeals law clerk.

Peter Leroe-Muñoz, General Counsel, Senior Vice President Innovation and Technology, Silicon Valley Leadership Group

Leroe-Muñoz is the General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Tech Policy for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, where he focuses on autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, data privacy, international trade, and immigration. He began his legal career in Intellectual Property litigation, and has also worked as In-House Counsel for a financial advisory firm. Leroe-Muñoz was a Deputy District Attorney where he prosecuted narcotics crimes, violent offenses, and financial crimes. He is alo an elected Council Member in Gilroy, California.