
Aaron Brown is the inaugural Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism. Each semester he teaches a seminar on turning points in television news history, a subject in which he is well versed. From the Vietnam protests and Watergate in the 1970s to the beginning of the Iraq War, he has, quite literally, been there.
Brown is best remembered for his reporting of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center for CNN. On the air a half-hour after the first attack and broadcasting from a rooftop in lower Manhattan, Brown’s coverage has been called courageous, calming and insightful. For that coverage, he won the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award. In addition to the Murrow Award, Brown also won three Emmys, a DuPont, two New York Film Society World medals and a George Foster Peabody Award.

Frank Sesno is Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. He is chief executive of Face the Facts USA, a new nonpartisan, multi-platform content hub and civic engagement initiative dedicated to elevating the tone of national debate with provocative facts found at facethefactsusa.org. Sesno's diverse career spans over 30 years, including 21 years at CNN where Sesno served as White House correspondent, anchor, and Washington Bureau Chief. As a professor of journalism ethics, documentary genre, and issues of fairness in media, he teaches how the media affects the creation of public policy. Sesno holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College and serves on the Washington Advisory Board of the Posse Foundation, on the Board of Trustees of the Potomac School in McLean, VA, and on the Educational Advisory Board of CINE 2009.
Professor, CUNY
Founder, Physician’s for National Health Program
MPH National Hispanic Council on Aging
George Washington University
Mayo Clinic’s Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging
Founder, Erickson Living
Georgetown Law
Director, Healthcare Systems Improvement Program
?Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
President-elect, AMA
UCLA Medical Center
Co-Director
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
Center for Research on Retirement Income
Economics Editor
Marketplace Money
Senior Editor
Kiplinger’s Finance
EVP & Policy Director
The Pension Rights Center
Labor Economist
Retirement Research Foundation
?The New School
Vice President
The Financial Services Roundtable
Founder of Erickson Living
Executive Chairman of RLTV
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper
Dean, Johns Hopkins University
School of Education
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Chair in Education, Emerita
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Assoc. Professor, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Board Member, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Physicist
Professor Emerita Stanford University
Former Congresswoman (D) CA
NPR Correspondent & Fox News
Washington Post
Former Congressman (R)
Co-founder Moody's Economy.com
Food & Research Action Center (FRAC)
President, National Foundation to End Senior Hunger
Former President & CEO of Meals & Wheels
GMU Chair Dept Nutrition Studies
National Alliance of Women Against Senior Hunger (NAWASH)
UMD Associate Professor, Nutrition Epidemiology
Graduate Director for Food Science & Nutrition
President and CEO of Meals on Wheels and More, Austin, TX
Mr. Simpson is a retired U.S. Senator from Wyoming having served from 1979-1997. He was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and the University of Wyoming. He was a member of the Iraq Study Group, and a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates. He is presently serving as Co-Chairman with Erskine Bowles on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. He holds a BS in Law, a Juris Doctorate and several honorary doctorate degrees.
Mr. Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama's economic team. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. Bernstein has authored and coauthored numerous books for both popular and academic audiences and published extensively in various venues, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Research in Economics and Statistics. Bernstein holds a PhD in Social Welfare from Columbia University.