Bill Keller (Chairman of the Board of Advisors)
Founding Editor-in-chief, The Marshall Project

Reginald Dwayne Betts
Poet, lawyer, and Founder and CEO of Freedom Reads

Nikole Hannah-Jones
Knight Chair in Race and Journalism, Howard University

Marie Hardin
Dean, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State University

John J. Lennon
Incarcerated journalist

Alexander Papachristou
Executive Director of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice

Elizabeth Share
Vice President of Strategic Relations, Solutions Journalism Network

Charles Whitaker
Dean, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications