Ben Manski is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Law. He is the founder of the Liberty Tree Foundation and Associate Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies. Manski practiced public interest and non-profit organization law in Wisconsin for eight years. He taught sociology for two years at Madison Area Technical College. Manski has served in a wide variety of civic capacities, including terms as co-chair of the Green Party of the United States and most recently, campaign manager of Jill Stein for President. Manski has been published in four books. His current graduate research centers on the “democratic turn” of the U.S. Left  toward structural and constitutional reform in the 1980s and 1990s.