Marjorie Kelly is the Senior Fellow and Executive Vice President of The Democracy Collaborative, where she heads up a variety of consulting and research projects and serves as a member of the senior management team.

Conrad Shaw is a New York-based film and stage actor, a screenwriter, and a UBI writer/advocate. Originally from Colorado, he earned a degree and several years experience as a mechanical engineer before switching gears and moving to New York to pursue his passion of storytelling. He graduated from the two-year Meisner acting training program at the William Esper Studio in midtown Manhattan. Alongside current documentary and acting work, Conrad is also developing a feature narrative film called Rolling with Virgil and a long form television drama series called Jellyfish. Since embarking on the Bootstraps project in 2016, Conrad has built a reputation as a respected writer and speaker in the UBI space as well.