Ami Fields-Meyer is the co-author of On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear. He is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as a senior policy advisor at the White House, where he led initiatives related to civil rights, consumer protection, and technology policy, as well as a strategist to civil rights organizations, political candidates, and public officials from LA City Hall to the West Wing. Fields-Meyer’s writing on democracy and public policy has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and more.