Knowledge for Freedom is co-led by the Teagle Foundation and Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship Program, and advised by a leadership council of program faculty.

Co-Chairs

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Tamara Tweel

Program Director, The Teagle Foundation
Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee

Executive Director of Freedom & Citizenship at Columbia University

Leadership Council

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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

Director of Freedom and Citizenship at Columbia University
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Stephanie Almeida Nevin

Co-Founder, Citizens Thinkers Writers at Yale University
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Heather Ohaneson

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

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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

Zachary Roberts

Director of the Teagle Humanities Fellowship