Sheila Coronel, Academic Dean at Columbia Journalism School and winner of the 2003 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts
Judith Crist, film and television critic; professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Thomas Byrne Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor, Columbia School of Journalism 2006–2014; The Washington Post; contributing op-ed writer The New York Times
Emil Wilbekin, author; former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Giant, and editor-at-large of Essence magazine, founder of Native Son Now, Black & gay rights activist