Wallis Annenberg

Since becoming chairman of the board, president, and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation in 2009, Wallis Annenberg has helped transform and bolster the arts and humanities in public life, especially in her adopted home of Los Angeles.

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Gladys Noon Spellman

Gladys Noon Spellman rose through the ranks of Maryland politics to become an influential advocate for the federal workforce in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Melissa Fay Greene

Melissa Fay Greene’s award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing chronicle dramatic episodes in the civil rights movement in Georgia (U.S.).

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