
Mara Brock Akil (BSJ92)
Writer, producer and creator of TV shows such as “Being Mary Jane,” “Girlfriends” and “The Game”
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Writer, producer and creator of TV shows such as “Being Mary Jane,” “Girlfriends” and “The Game”
White House correspondent and co-anchor of "Weekend Today" at NBC News
Publisher of Vox Media and co-founder of Vox.com
Associate Producer at Laylow Pictures, Director and Creator at Black Southern Woman Project
Writer, Communicator and Freelance Journalist
Staff Reporter at the Washington Business Journal
Pulitzer Prize winner and former publisher and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune
Former Director of Strategic Initiatives at The Washington Post; Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy for Northwestern University Medill School
Former co-host of ESPN's "Mike and Mike", current co-host of ESPN's "Get Up" and host of EPSN's "Greeny"
Chief Content Officer, theGrio
Indigenous Communities Reporter at the Great Falls Tribune
Author of "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels, adapted by HBO as Game of Thrones
Current host of NPR's "Embedded" and former host of "All Things Considered"
Senior Reporter of Tech Features at Business Insider
Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist, formerly of The New York Times
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism," "Fixes" columnist for the New York Times and co-founder of Solutions Journalism Network
CBS News Correspondent and author of "Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran"
Editor in Chief at Apartment Therapy
Co-host of ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption"
Freelance Marketer
Founder of Yurus Management & Counsel