Board of Directors

Robert Wright is president of The Nonzero Foundation. He is the author, most recently, of Why Buddhism Is True. His previous book, The Evolution of God (2009), was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books include The Moral Animal, Nonzero, and Three Scientists and Their Gods. He has written for Time, Slate, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, and the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. In 2009 Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the top 100 global thinkers. He has taught courses in philosophy and religion at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. He is Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and is editor-in-chief of the websites Bloggingheads.tv and MeaningofLife.tv.

David Yellen is a professor at the University of Miami School of Law. He served as the Dean of the law schools at the University of Miami, Loyola University Chicago and Hofstra University. He was also President of Marist College. Yellen advised President Clinton’s transition team on white collar crime enforcement and argued a federal sentencing case before the United States Supreme Court. He was also appointed as Special Master by the Presiding Judge of the Cook County Criminal Court to investigate claims of torture committed by a Chicago Police Commander. He graduated from Princeton University and Cornell Law School.

Paul Glastris is editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly and a senior fellow at the Western Policy Center in Washington, DC. From September 1998 to January 2001 he was a special assistant and senior speechwriter to the President Bill Clinton. He wrote over 200 speeches for the president, on subjects ranging from education to health care to the budget. He also promoted several administration policy initiatives, including a food stamp rule that allowed the working poor to own cars. Before joining the White House, he spent ten years as a correspondent and editor at U.S. News & World Report. From 1985 to 1986, he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s in radio, TV and film from Northwestern University.