Knowledge for Freedom is led by the Chang Chavkin Center for Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College, and advised by a leadership council of program faculty

Chair

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Jessica Lee

Chair, Knowledge for Freedom

Associate Director, Chang Chavkin Center for Liberal Education and Civic Life, Bard College

Leadership Council

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Tamara Tweel

Senior Program Director, The Teagle Foundation
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Casey Blake

Founder of the Freedom and Citizenship Program at Columbia University
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Bryan Garsten

Co-Founder, Citizens Thinkers Writers and Professor of Political Science and Humanities at Yale University
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Roosevelt Montás

Executive Director of the Chang Chavkin Center and the John and Margaret Bard Professor in Liberal Education and Civic Lifepicture, Bard College
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Stephanie Almeida Nevin

Co-Founder, Citizens Thinkers Writers at Yale University

Executive Director of Yale Center for Civic Thought
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Heather Ohaneson

Founder of the Liberation Scholars, a Knowledge for Freedom program at George Fox University
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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Rene Plessner Lecturer in Freedom and Citizenship at Columbia University and Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University
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Zachary Roberts

Director of the Teagle Humanities Fellowship