John Daniszewski is the AP's vice president and editor at large for standards, working with journalists and editors around the world to ensure the highest levels of media ethics and fairness. From 2009 to 2016, he served as AP’s vice president for international news after three decades as a reporter, editor and correspondent assigned to more than 70 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.

Steven Hahn is a professor of history at New York University. He holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

At the Ford Foundation, where she began work last year as the Director of Creativity and Free Expression, Elizabeth Alexander shapes and directs grant-making in arts, media and culture. She guides efforts to examine how cultural narratives affect and shape social movements and how media and the arts, including film and visual storytelling, can contribute to a fairer and more just society.

Joyce Dehli is an Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University for 2016-17 and former Vice President of News for Lee Enterprises. She joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in May 2008.

Tommie Shelby is an Africana studies scholar whose writings focus on racial and economic justice and on the history of black political thought. He is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard.

Neil Brown oversees the journalism published in the Tampa Bay Times, the largest circulation daily in the Southeast, as well as on the websites tampabay.com and PolitiFact.com, in the daily tabloid tbt*, and in Bay, a bimonthly magazine on fashion and real estate.

A native of Chicago, Brown began his career as a reporter at the Miami Herald, covering government and politics in Key West, West Palm Beach, Tallahassee and Miami.

Mike Pride is the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and editor emeritus of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, where he ran the newsroom for 30 years.

Gail Collins joined the editorial board of The New York Times in 1995 and six years later became the first woman editor of The Times’ editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and took a leave in order to finish a book, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. She returned to the paper as an Op-Ed columnist later in 2007.