Texas Tribune Festival 2019

Bertrand joined Politico in April, where she serves as a national security correspondent. She is also a contributor for MSNBC. Previously, Bertrand served as a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covered national security, the intelligence community and politics.

Castro, D-San Antonio, has represented Texas’ 20th Congressional District since 2013. He serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Education and Labor Committee. He currently serves as chair of the Texas Democratic Caucus... Read More →

Figliuzzi is a former assistant director for counterintelligence for the FBI and current contributor for NBC. Previously, he worked as assistant chief security officer at General Electric and as chief operating officer of ETS Risk Management, where he consulted with clients on insider... Read More →

Miller is currently a partner at Vianovo, a strategic advisory firm for brand, policy and crisis issues. Previously, he led the U.S. Department of Justice’s communications team under President Barack Obama and served as spokesman for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Miller also... Read More →

Rangappa is a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a former associate dean of Yale Law School. Previously, she worked as a special agent in the New York Division of the FBI, where she specialized in counterintelligence investigations. Rangappa... Read More →

Vance served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama during the Obama administration. She currently serves as a distinguished professor of the practice of law at the University of Alabama School of Law and is a contributor for MSNBC and NBC News. Vance previously served... Read More →