Ami Fields-Meyer is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and a former senior policy advisor at the White House, where he led U.S. policy initiatives related to civil rights, consumer protection, and technology policy. He has served as a strategist to national civil rights organizations, political candidates, and high-profile public officials from Los Angeles City Hall to the West Wing. Ami's writing on issues of democracy and public policy has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and other outlets. A former speechwriter, he is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His forthcoming coming book On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear, with Julia Angwin, will be published by HarperCollins/Mariner on June 30, 2026.