Gary W. Reinbold has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and comments on social policy issues frequently for television, radio, newspapers, and online sources. He has significant work experience in the private sector (as an attorney at the international law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt), the public sector (as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), and the academic sector (as a professor at the University of Illinois Springfield). He has lived in rural areas, small cities, medium-sized cities, and large cities, in solidly Republican areas, solidly Democratic areas, and “swing” districts, and has maintained friendships with well-meaning, sincere people across the political spectrum. He always votes by candidate, never by party, and frequently supports third-party candidates (even when they have little hope of election success). He has leaned to the right or the left at times in his life, but is now fiercely moderate in his political opinions and consciously reevaluates those opinions whenever he finds himself out of step with a majority of his fellow Americans.