Zephyr Teachout is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy, teaching a module on Politics, Money and the Internet. She has clerked for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker, Third Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals; served as the national director of the Sunlight Network; taught at the University of Vermont, Duke University and Fordham University; and was director of Internet organizing for Dean For America. She was a co-founder and executive director of the Fair Trial Initiative in Durham, where she also was a staff attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation. She is editor of Mousepads, Shoeleather and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics. She is currently writing about the meaning of corruption in the American constitutional tradition.