Sharron Wilkins Conrad, professor of history at Tarrant County College and Senior Fellow at Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History. Kellie Carter Jackson, professor of African Studies at Wellesley College.
John F. Kennedy Library
Fintan O'Toole
Boston College - Gasson 100
Leading white shark expert Dr. Greg Skomal and science writer Ret Talbot
New England Aquarium
Rev. Dr. Ted Smith
Boston University School of Theology Community Center
Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College and author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic.
John F. Kennedy Library
Emmanuel Akyeampong is the Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, as well as the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. He joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He received his master's degree at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1989, where he concentrated on English labor history, and his bachelor's degree in History and Religions from the University of Ghana at Legon in 1984. Scott Taylor is Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of International Relations. Dr. Taylor’s research and teaching interests lie in the areas of African politics and political economy, with a particular emphasis on business-state relations, private sector development, governance, and political and economic reform. He is the author of Politics in Southern Africa: Transition and Transformation (Lynne Rienner, 2011)(with Gretchen Bauer); Culture and Customs of Zambia (Greenwood Press, 2006); Business and the State in Southern Africa: The Politics of Economic Reform (Lynne Rienner, 2007); and Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa: From Patrimonialism to Profit (Indiana University Press, 2012), as well as of articles in numerous political science and area studies journals.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Kate Brown
Boston College - Gasson 100
Stephen Puleo, Author and Historian
Suffolk University Law School
About Stacy Schiff: Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government, she lives in New York City.
Old South Meeting House
Robert Costa, chief election and campaign correspondent for CBS News. David Gergen, senior political analyst at CNN and a White House adviser to four presidents.
John F. Kennedy Library
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