Zephyr Teachout is an award-winning author, constitutional law professor, and a nationally renowned democracy and anti-corruption activist. The New York Times has called her "the godmother of the current moment of dissatisfaction with establishment politics." In 2014 she ran against Andrew Cuomo for governor, shocking pundits by winning a third of the vote, and, in 2018, The New York Times endorsed her when she ran for attorney general. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation and has inspired legislation in states around the country. She is the author of Corruption in America, and Break 'Em Up and lives in Manhattan.