William T. Bianco is professor of political science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research focuses on congressional institutions, representation, and international cooperation in crewed spaceflight. He received his undergraduate degree from SUNY Stony Brook and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He is the author of Trust: Representatives and Constituents and numerous journal articles. His research and graduate students have received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Council for Eurasian and Eastern European Research. He has served as a consultant to various candidates, political parties, and government agencies. He was also a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Moscow, Russia, during 2011–12.
David T. Canon is professor and department chair of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His teaching and research interests focus on American political institutions, especially Congress, and racial representation. He is the author of Actors, Athletes, and Astronauts: Political Amateurs in the United States Congress; Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts (winner of the Richard F. Fenno Prize); The Dysfunctional Congress? (with Kenneth Mayer); and various articles and book chapters. He served a term as the Congress editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly. He is an AP consultant and has taught in the University of Wisconsin AP Summer Institute for U.S. Government and Politics since 1997. Professor Canon is the recipient of a University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Kimberly A. Owens is a veteran AP® U.S. Government and Politics teacher at Shaker Heights High School, in an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. She has taught in a variety of settings, both domestic and international, since 1998. She has been involved with AP® Reading for the AP® U.S. Government and Politics exam since 2003, serving as a Reader, Table Leader, Question Leader, Exam Leader, and, for the last six years, as Assistant to the Chief Reader. Previously, she served as the College Board Advisor and on the Course Audit Committee for the AP® U.S. Government and Politics course. Additionally, as a member of the Curriculum Design and Assessment Committee, she contributed to the development of the new Course and Exam Description. She is the former co-chair for the Development Committee, writing and evaluating questions for the AP® Exam for the redesigned course. She currently provides support to AP® teachers as the moderator of the online AP® U.S. Government and Politics Teacher Community and as an endorsed consultant for the College Board.
James Wehrli is a teacher of economics and political science at the American School of Paris, where he also serves on the school’s Work Council, the Comité Social et Economique. He has taught at the high school and college levels in New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. As an AP® Consultant he has conducted workshops in the United States and abroad for AP® U.S. Government and Politics, AP® Comparative Government and Politics, AP® Microeconomics, and AP® Macroeconomics. He has been an AP® Table Leader and served on the Test Development Committee, during which time he was also the College Board Advisor for AP® Comparative Government and Politics. He holds a PhD and MA in political science, and an MA and BA in economics, all from Binghamton University. In addition to writing and editing several publications for the College Board, he has also been the editor and author of a variety of AP® review books and teachers’ guides.
Julie U. Strong is a veteran AP® U.S. Government and Politics teacher at Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. She holds BS and EdM degrees from the University of Virginia. She is the former co-chair of the AP® U.S. Government and Politics Development Committee, as a member of which she designed assessments, contributed to College Board outreach events, and provided mentorship and support to AP® teachers and their students. She serves as an AP® U.S. Government and Politics exam Table Leader and AP® workshop consultant. She also worked as a Curriculum Specialist at the Youth Leadership Initiative, a program of the University of Virginia Center for Politics responsible for developing instructional resources for high school social studies teachers.
