Ian Lindquist is Executive Director of the Public Interest Fellowship, where he is responsible for the fellow selection process, fellow placements, relationships with partner organizations, and overseeing the development and education of fellows over the course of their time in the program. Previously, he served as program manager for education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and was a middle and high school teacher, and assistant headmaster, with Great Hearts Academies in Phoenix, Arizona. His writing has been published by the American Enterprise Institute, The Weekly Standard, U.S. News, and the Washington Free Beacon. Ian holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis. He resides in Hyattsville, Maryland with his wife and four children.

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. At Hoover, Peter chairs the Jean Perkins Task Force on National Security and Law and co-chaired the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society.

Peter studies and writes about, among other things, constitutional government, conservatism and progressivism in the United States, liberal education, national security and law, and Middle East politics. He is the author of Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation (Hoover Institution Press, 2013), Israel and the Struggle over the International Laws of War (Hoover Institution Press, 2012), Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1999) and Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard University Press, 1995).

He is the editor of The Future of American Intelligence (2005), Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases (2005), the companion volumes Varieties of Conservatism in America (2004) and Varieties of Progressivism in America (2004), and Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic (2003), all from the Hoover Institution Press. In 2004, with co-editor Tod Lindberg, he launched Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society, a series of concise works on leading issues and controversies.

Peter has written hundreds of essays, articles, and reviews on many subjects for a variety of publications, including the American Political Science Review, the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Claremont Review of Books, Commentary, Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, the London Review of Books, National Review, the New Republic, the New York Post, the New York Sun, PJ Media, Policy Review, the Public Interest, Real Clear Politics, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, the Wilson Quarterly, and the Yale Law Journal.

Peter holds a JD and a PhD in political science from Yale University; an MA in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a BA in English literature from Swarthmore College.

You can view his works here.

Nani Beraha is Program Manager for The Public Interest Fellowship, where she manages the admissions process for the Fellowship and organizes all of its meetings, seminars, dinners, and retreats. Previously, she was Service Learning Coordinator for Brooklyn Heights Synagogue and Program Manager for Jewish Community Project Downtown in New York City. Nani is a graduate of Kenyon College, where she received a BA in Political Science. She also studied in Jerusalem at Hebrew University’s Graduate Year Program. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and children.