Talking Feds Creators & Guests

Harry Litman is a lawyer, law professor, and political commentator.

Jennifer Shin Bassett is a podcast producer, writer, and founder of the production company Big Din Productions.Bassett's writing has appeared in HuffPost and The Guardian. She also writes a political newsletter.

Mary "Heidi" Heitkamp is a businesswoman, lawyer, politician, and former U.S. Senator.

Barbara Levy Boxer is a retired American politician who served as a United States senator for California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993.

Zoe Lofgren is an American politician serving as a U.S. Representative from California.

Ashley Parker is a journalist.

Robert Costa is an journalist.

Fiona Hill is a foreign affairs specialist, academic, and former official at the U.S. National Security Council specializing in Russian and European affairs.

Joaquin Castro is a Lawyer and Democratic politician.

Jonathan Alter is a liberal & progressive journalist, best-selling author, documentary filmmaker, and television producer.

Pramila Jayapal is a politician and activist.

Emily Bazelon is a journalist.

Julia Ioffe is a Russian-born American journalist.

Alicia Menendez is the creator and host of the Latina to Latina podcast.

Sherrilyn Ifill is a lawyer, and expert on voting rights and judicial selection. Currently, she is a law professor at the University of Maryland Law School and also president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.Ifill began her legal career in a fellowship with the ACLU in New York. She then served as assistant counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, where she litigated Voting Rights Act cases. Her first book, "On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century," was published in 2008.Ifill was born and raised in Jamaica, Queens, New York. She received her B.A. from Vassar College and her J.D. from the New York University School of Law. She interned for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. and at the United Nations Centre for Human Rights.

Asha Rangappa is a lawyer and former FBI agent.

Seung Min Kim is a journalist.

Joe Lockhart is a spokesman.

Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is credited as one of the first economists to have identified the 2007–08 United States housing bubble.