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Cokie Roberts (1943-2019) was a senior news analyst for *NPR News*, where she served as the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program *This Week*. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting. In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, wrote a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. The Roberts were also contributing editors to *USA Weekend Magazine*, and together they wrote* From this Day Forward*, an account of their more than 40 year marriage and other marriages in American history. The book immediately went onto *The New York Times* bestseller list, following Cokie Roberts's number one bestseller, *We Are Our Mothers' Daughters*, an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history. Roberts histories of women in America's founding era Founding Mothers, published in 2004 and Ladies of Liberty in 2008, also became instant bestsellers. Cokie Roberts earned more than twenty honorary degrees, served on the boards of several non-profit institutions and on the President's Commission on Service and Civic Participation. The Library of Congress named her a "Living Legend"in 2008. She is one of the very few Americans to have attained that honor.

Bob L. Metcalf (1916- 1998),exemplified excellence and ac- complishment in multiple separate disci- plines over his career. Trained at a time prior to the balkanization of the basic sci- entific disciplines of physics, chemistry, and biology, Bob was interdisciplinary before the word became en vogue. Bob was a biologist at heart, but one who appreciated and fore- saw that a sound background and practice in chemistry would inform the discipline. Thus, Bob can be honored for two great contributions to biology. First, he made in- novative advances in basic insecticide toxi- cology and, perhaps more than anyone, deserves credit for helping to create the field of environmental toxicology. Second, Bob was the consummate chemical ecologist, again making fundamental research contributions before the field had evolved as a recogniz- able name. In addition to his many firsts in research contributions, Bob served science very well. He held the positions of departmental head (UC, Riverside; UI) and vice chancellor (UC, Riverside), served as President of the ESA (1958), served the National Academy of Sciences as an elected member (1967), was a member of the EPA FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel, was a member of the first scien- tific delegation to visit China, and collaborated extensively with the World Health Organization. Bob was also a teacher, having mentored over 80 graduate students and editing one of the first academically oriented texts for pest management (Introduction to Insect Pest Management). Bob also served as editor during the 1970s for the groundbreaking Wiley series, Advances in Environ- mental Science and Technology, perhaps the first regularly pub- lished collection of books that covered all aspects of environmental science.

More than 50 years after joining CBS News, Don Hewitt continues to influence television journalism, much as he did when he helped develop many of its methods for reporting news, beginning in 1948. His pioneering work in producing and directing many of the broadcasts of the world's major news events during television's infancy provided a blueprint that news producers still rely on today. But Hewitt is best known and most respected for another innovation, *60 Minutes*, the groundbreaking news broadcast he created in 1968 that is the most successful broadcast in television history. After 36 years on *60 Minutes*, Hewitt stepped aside as executive producer in June 2004, but he continues to provide advice and counsel to Jeff Fager as he moves into the executive producer post to ensure a smooth transition of leadership. Hewitt began his journalism career in 1942 as head copyboy for the *New York Herald Tribune* after attending New York University for one year. During World War II, he served as a correspondent in the European and Pacific theaters (1943-45). Hewitt is the author of *Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television* (PublicAffairs, April 2001), in which chronicles his life as a newsman. He is also the author of the book *Minute by Minute* (Random House, 1985).

Ben Bradlee, born in 1921, vice president and executive editor of the *Washington Post* when that newspaper published the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles that initially exposed the Watergate scandal. Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1942. He began his journalism career in 1946 as a reporter at the New Hampshire Sunday News. From 1948 to 1961 he wrote for the *Washington Post* and *Newsweek* magazine, working variously as a Washington, D.C., bureau reporter and as a European correspondent. While a reporter for *Newsweek*, Bradlee lived near then-Senator John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C.

Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. His latest book is Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity Press 2017). He is also the author of The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (Polity Press, 2015). Following a fellowship with the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard (2004-06), he worked with the Social Science Research Council as Director of the program on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation, and led projects on conflict and humanitarian crises in Africa (2006-09). During 2005-06, de Waal was seconded to the African Union mediation team for Darfur and from 2009-11 served as senior adviser to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan, where he took on a number of roles in the negotiations leading to the independence of South Sudan. He was on the list of Foreign Policy’s 100 most influential public intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic Monthly’s 27 “brave thinkers” in 2009.

David Martin grew up on a farm, worked in steel mills, served in the military, wrote for magazines, and for the past 15 years has been a full-time novelist.

Eric Reeves is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past ten years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history. His book about Darfur, *A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide*, was published in May 2007. He is also at work on a longer-range project surveying the international response to ongoing war and human destruction in Sudan over the past 25 years, *Sudan: Suffering a Long Way Off*.

Norma Shapiro serves as Legislative Director for the ACLU of Massachusetts. During her 20-year career, Shapiro's work has contributed to some of the most historic civil liberties victories in the country, including equal marriage rights, reproductive freedom, privacy rights, and fair financing of public education.