Ganesh Sitaraman holds the New York Chancellor's Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School and is director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator. He is the author of multiple books, including Why Flying is Miserable, The Great Democracy, The Public Option, and The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution. Sitaraman has been a longtime adviser to Senator Elizabeth Warren, including serving as a senior adviser on her 2020 presidential campaign, her senior counsel in the Senate, and her policy director during her 2012 Senate campaign. He has been profiled in The New York Times and Politico for his work at the nexus of politics and ideas.