Brian Michael Till

Brian Till grew up in a small Vermont town near Lake Champlain, where he played pond hockey, and, in the summers, worked at the Burlington Boathouse. He is a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., and blogs for the Atlantic.He previously wrote a nationally syndicated column, and graduated from Haverford College in 2008, where he played lacrosse and won the Herman M. Somers Prize for best political science thesis.

His book, "Conversations with Power," will be published by Palgrave Macmillan this spring. For the project, he interviewed former leaders from around the world, including: Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Vaclav Havel.

He lives in Washington, D.C..

His personal website is: www.brianmichaeltill.com