Research Team
Kumar Rao, Co-Principal Investigator & Co-Author, ISPU Fellow, J.D., New York University School of Law, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Popular Democracy.
Carey Shenkman, Co-Principal Investigator & Co-Author, ISPU Fellow, J.D., New York University School of Law, attorney, litigator, and author specializing in human rights and Constitutional law.
Khwaja Ahmed, Research Assistant
Hasher Nisar, Research Assistant
Dalia Mogahed, ISPU Director of Research
Sarrah Buageila, ISPU Project Manager
Katherine Coplen, ISPU Senior Communications Manager
Katie Grimes, Communication & Creative Media Specialist
We would like acknowledge the following for their consultation:
Amna Akbar, JD, University of Michigan; Assistant Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law
Erik Bleich, PhD, Political Science and Government, Harvard University; Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College
Aloke Chakravarty, JD, Emory University School of Law; former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts
Michael German, JD, Northwestern University Law School; fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program
Adam Johnson, Associate editor of Alternet.org; contributing writer for Fair Media Watch, the Nation, Alternet, and the Los Angeles Times
Faiza Patel, JD, New York University School of Law; co-director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program
Stephen Piggott, Senior Research Analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center
Wadi Said, JD, Columbia University School of Law; Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law
Hina Shamsi, JD, Northwestern University School of Law; director of the ACLU National Security Project; lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School
Shirin Sinnar, JD, Stanford Law School; Associate Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School
Manar Waheed, JD, Brooklyn Law School; former Deputy Policy Director for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council in the Obama Administration; Legislative and Advocacy Counsel at the ACLU
Vince Warren, JD, Rutgers School of Law; executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights
Dina Zingaro, Associate producer at CBS News 60 Minutes
Imraan Siddiqi, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations Arizona
Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Schanzer, Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University
Rebecca Lenn, Media Matters for America
ISPU would like to acknowledge our generous supporters whose contributions made this report possible, including:
Security & Rights Collaborative, a Proteus Fund initiative
Democracy Fund Action
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