David (leans red) is a co-founder of Braver Angels and director of the Citizens Commission on Immigration. He lives in South Lebanon, Ohio.

David is president and co-founder of Braver Angels. He is the author of In search of Braver Angels. He co-founded the National Fatherhood Initiative in 1995, founded the Institute for American Values in 1988, and has authored or co-edited 14 books. He grew up in Mississippi and now lives with his family in New York City.

Reena (leans blue) is a Braver Angels moderator and national leader, and was the Project Lead of the BA Trustworthy Elections Campaign.  She created the “Common Ground Workshop” so Reds and Blues can address issues constructively. The workshops do a deep dive into a single issue for the purpose of finding unanimous points of agreement on values, concerns and solutions/policies. Common Ground Workshops have tackled such issues as abortion, teaching about race and racism in public schools, antisemitism, addressing climate change – and in ensuring trustworthy elections. Reena is a marriage and family therapist in the DC area.

Kerry Conboy is a multilingual immigration law analyst who has interviewed thousands of aspiring Americans from more than 120 countries to determine eligibility for immigration benefits in the U.S. She has delivered in-person immigration law workshops to more than 10,000 farmworkers, law enforcement leaders, detained children, school administrators, county social services departments, and faith leaders. She has also trained and mentored hundreds of law students, asylum officers, and attorneys in accurately applying our nation’s immigration laws to individual fact patterns. Her case experience is curiously broad but she has spent the most time handling Asylum, DACA, Naturalization, and humanitarian visas for survivors of crime and human trafficking. She has also been responsible for cases involving egregious public safety, fraud, and national security concerns. For six years, she led an interdisciplinary training center at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, one of the most politically balanced law schools in the country. She also spent seven years as a migration counselor at Catholic Charities Division of Immigrant & Refugee Services in New York. Her professional contributions to the media have been featured in the New York Times, Univision, Telemundo, among others. She is originally from the Lower Hudson Valley, New York and lives in Southern California. 

Since 1988, Harry Heintzelman has gained extensive foreign policy experience through various legal positions, beginning as Chief of the International Law Division at Ninth Air Force/USCENTAF, where he addressed legal issues during U.S. operations in Southwest Asia. He was the first judge advocate deployed to Desert Shield, contributing to the development of Rules of Engagement for coalition air operations and reviewing attack plans for Desert Storm. From 1991 to 1992, he served as a legal advisor in the National Security Agency protecting sensitive information from unauthorized disclosure. Since 1993, he has served in a variety of leadership roles on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1992-1996), in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1996-2002), and the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control and Verification (2002-2019), helping to shape U.S. nuclear arms control and counter-proliferation policy. In these positions, he participated in direct U.S. negotiations with foreign governments regarding the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (iNF) Treaty, the Strategic Arms Control Treaty (START I), START II, the START II Protocol, the Moscow Treaty, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).  He also participated in key counter-proliferation efforts such as the U.S.-Russian HEU Purchase Agreement, Project Sapphire (the removal of HEU from Kazakhstan), the elimination of Libya’s WMD programs, and the North Korean denuclearization effort.  He also has edited and coordinated the President’s Annual Compliance Report to Congress.

Laura (leans blue) is the outreach coordinator for this initiative.  She is a retired engineer and project manager from Hewlett Packard and 3D Systems.  In her work for Braver Angels she is also on the Braver Faith leadership team and posts regularly on the Braver Angels Oregon Facebook page.  She lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon (near Portland).

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Jim Robb is Vice-President of Alliances at NumbersUSA, the nation’s largest-member immigration policy group. He has served on the staff since the organization’s founding in 1996. He has authored a book on Hispanics voting trends, Political Migrants: Hispanic Voters on the Move, 2022.  He lives with his wife Kim in Falls Church, Virginia. 

Diego Sanchez is the Director of Policy and Strategy at the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, an alliance representing over 550 campus leaders dedicated to advancing forward-looking immigration policies and practices at the federal, state, and campus levels. A former immigration attorney, DACA recipient, and community organizer, Diego draws on more than a decade of lived experience as an undocumented individual. He is a passionate advocate for expanding immigration opportunities and advancing bipartisan solutions, working across the aisle to promote policies that benefit students, campuses, and the nation.

John Schwenkler (leans blue) lives in Decatur GA and helps lead Braver Angels initiatives for workshop development/moderating along with faith engagement

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Michelle Tolfa (leans blue) is the Data Coordinator for the initiative.  She is a software engineer and lives in Seattle, WA with her husband Alex and their elderly chihuahua Charlie.  When she’s not helping to support and organize Braver Angels events, she enjoys bike rides through the city and cooking.