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Our Team Members
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Shikha Dalmia
President
Shikha founded ISMA in 2023 with the aim of preventing the overtaking of liberal democracies by religious, ethnic, and populist nationalist movements.
Berny Belvedere
Executive Director
Berny joined The UnPopulist in the fall of 2023 as its senior editor, and in the same year came on board at ISMA as its executive director.
Landry Ayres
Creative Director
Landry Ayres is Creative Director at ISMA and Managing Editor/Senior Producer at The UnPopulist.
Thomas Shull
Survey Research Director
Thomas Shull is editor-at-large of The UnPopulist and survey research director for ISMA.
Emily Chamlee-Wright
President, Institute for Humane Studies (IHS)
Michael Abramowitz
President, Freedom House
Eli Lehrer
President, R Street Institute
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