Managing Editor

Steven N. Pyser earned his J.D. from Temple University School of Law.  He has taught at the University of Phoenix (Greater Philadelphia Pennsylvania Campuses); Arcadia University’s, International Peace and Conflict Resolution program; and was a guest Scholar Practitioner  at Fielding Graduate University.  As a practitioner, Mr. Pyser has participated in many different deliberative forums including:  Listening to the City - Online Dialogue, Penn’s Landing Public Forum, and Let’s Talk America.

Jim H. Snider received his doctorate in American Government from Northwestern University and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.  He currently is a research director at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington, DC think tank, where he specializes in media policy.  Prior to coming to the New America Foundation he served in the U.S. Senate on the staffs of Senators Wyden and Leahy as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in Communications and Public Policy.  Prior to attending graduate school in political science, Snider was active in Vermont politics, serving on the school board in Burlington, Vermont, chairing a task force for Vermont’s Secretary of State on Information and Democracy, and serving on the board of the Vermont Chapter of Common Cause.