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Joe Conason is national correspondent for *The New York Observer*, where he writes a weekly column distributed by Creators Syndicate. He is also a columnist for Salon.com, and the Director of the Nation Institute Investigative Fund. His books *Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth*, and *The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, with Gene Lyons*, were both national bestsellers. His latest book, *It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush*, was released in February 2007. His writing and reporting have appeared in many publications, including *Harpers*, *The Guardian*, *The Nation*, and *The New Republic*. He also appears frequently on television and radio (notably as a regular Friday guest on "Air America's The Al Franken Show"). He lives with his wife in New York City.

A scholar of American literature, Lewis' first book was on *William Faulkner: The Indians of Yoknapatawpha: A Study in Literature and History. *For much of his career, Lewis has been the preeminent scholar on the work of Edmund Wilson, the American writer and literary critic. In 2006, Lewis published his crowning achievement, *Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature*, which received prominent notices, including front-page coverage in *The New York Times Book Review*. Outside of the English Department, Lewis spent a year as director of UWs American Heritage Center and he received fellowships from the National Humanities Institute, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Hazel Rowley, brought up in England and Australia, lives in New York City. She is currently writing a book called *Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: An Extraordinary Marriage*, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hazel Rowley's essays have appeared four times in *The Best Australian Essays*. Her essay "Beauvoir, Brazil, and 'Christina T'" was published in *BookForum* in April/May 2007. Back in December 1996, she mourned the dramatic changes in tertiary education in an article published in *The Australian*, called "Universities are losing on points." She has published articles in *Partisan Review*,* Mississippi Quarterly*, *Antioch Review*, *Contemporary Literature*, *Prose Studies*, *a/b: Auto/Biography Studies*, *Texas Studies in Literature and Language*, *Southerly and Westerly*, and has reviewed books for *The Times Literary Supplement* (UK),* The London Times Higher Education Supplement*, *Boston Globe*,* Washington Post*, *The Nation*, and *L.A. Times*. A passionate speaker, she has appeared at numerous book festivals and literary events in the United States, Canada, the UK, France, and Australia. Her recent speaking engagements include the Athenaeum (Boston), the Smithsonian (Washington), the New York Society Library, the Alliance Francaise, Chicago, and the Sydney Writers' Festival.

Anne M. Mulcahy is chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation. In May 2009, Mulcahy announced that she is retiring as CEO of Xerox, effective July 1. She will remain as chairman. Mulcahy was named CEO of Xerox on August 1, 2001 and chairman on Jan. 1, 2002. Mulcahy was president and chief operating officer of Xerox from May 2000 through July 2001. Prior to that, she was president of Xerox's General Markets Operations, which created and sold products for reseller, dealer and retail channels. She began her Xerox career as a field sales representative in 1976 and assumed increasingly responsible sales and senior management positions. From 1992-1995, Mulcahy was vice president for human resources, responsible for compensation, benefits, human resource strategy, labor relations, management development and employee training. Mulcahy became chief staff officer in 1997 and corporate senior vice president in 1998. Prior to that, she served as vice president and staff officer for Customer Operations, covering South America and Central America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and China. Mulcahy earned a bachelor of arts degree in English/journalism from Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y. In addition to the Xerox board, she is a board director of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Company, Ltd., Target Corporation, The Washington Post Company, and is the chairman of the corporate governance task force of the Business Roundtable.

Charles Euchner is the author or editor of eight books on politics and sports, including *Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them* (1993), *Extraordinary Politics: How Protest and Dissent Are Changing American Democracy* (1996), *Urban Policy Reconsidered: Dialogues About the Problems and Prospects of American Cities* (coauthored with Stephen McGovern, 2003), *The Last Nine Innings* (2006), and *Little League, Big Dreams* (2006). He is now working on a book about the civil right movement and a guide to writing nonfiction narrative and analysis. He also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines. He was the founding executive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard University and once directed the comprehensive planning process for the city of Boston.

Steinberg, who served the Orioles as team dentist in addition to his front-office duties, leaves an impressive legacy in Boston, where he oversaw the team's public and community, electronic and live entertainment, television and video production, and advertising and customer service. He created the Fenway Ambassadors program, was the guiding force behind the team's grandest ceremonies, like the World Series rings presentation in 2005 and the Tribute to Ted Williams, and was the innovator behind such popular occasions as the Father's Day catch at Fenway. He also created the Red Sox scholars program and other notable social outreach programs.

Alan has been the most visible Worcester presence, representing an ownership group which has worked tirelessly to bring quality professional baseball back to Worcester and Central Massachusetts. Prior to assuming these responsibilities, Alan was a pioneer in the New England legal recruitment field, and a practicing attorney. His background includes a pre-law career in public relations in New York City and Washington, DC. For the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, he traveled nationally with Jesse Owens, arranging Canadian/American media events with National Hockey League and North American Soccer League teams. Alan holds degrees from Tufts University, Boston College Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. For many years, Alan has been an active coach and participant in youth sports activities, particularly Weston (Mass.) Little League.

Kendall Wallace is chairman of Lowell Publishing Co. He has 50 years of newspaper experience, starting as a reporter at *The Sun* in 1959.

President: Bob Meyers joined the foundation in 1993 as director of its Washington Journalism Center. He was appointed president of the foundation in 1995. From 1989 to 1993 Meyers was director of the Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health. He is a former reporter for the Washington Post, and a former assistant city editor at the San Diego Union. He has written two books, Like Normal People and D.E.S.: The Bitter Pill. Educated in the New York City public schools system and at UCLA, he was awarded an academic fellowship at Harvard's Center for Health Communication in 1987-88. He is a member of the Fellowship Advisory Board of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. He has lectured at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Tsinghua University in Beijing.