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Arlie Russell Hochschild

American sociologist at Berkeley who wrote The Managed Heart and Strangers in Their Own Land — developing the concept of emotional labor (managing one's feelings as part of a job) and conducting a deep sociological investigation of the emotional life of Trump's rural Louisiana supporters.

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John Yoo

American legal scholar at UC Berkeley — former Bush DOJ official who wrote the 'torture memos' authorizing enhanced interrogation techniques — the most controversial national security lawyer in American government.

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Sergey Levine

American AI and robotics researcher at UC Berkeley — who works on deep reinforcement learning for robotics — one of the leading researchers on how to train robots to manipulate objects in the physical world.

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