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James V. Grimaldi is a multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who worked at the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and he most recently served as executive editor of National Catholic Reporter. Grimaldi is a graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a graduate of Kansas City's Jesuit-run Rockhurst High School.

Sarah McCammon is an award-winning journalist, a national political correspondent at NPR, and author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (2024). She is co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast and has covered multiple presidential elections. She brings a deeply personal and rigorously reported point of view of the evangelical Christian movement that has been so instrumental in shaping the current cultural and political climate in the United States. McCammon's work has been praised for its empathy, precision, and courage and for shedding light on what evangelicalism has become, and what might come next for a nation in political crisis.

Terence Samuel is a veteran journalist and news executive who is the incumbent chair of the National Press Foundation Board of Directors. During fall 2025 he is the Sakka Family Religion and International Journalism Fellow at Georgetown University. He formerly served as editor in chief of USA TODAY, vice president and executive editor of NPR, and Washington editor of the Washington Post. He is the author of The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the United States Senate (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010) and his work was anthologized in Best American Political Writing of 2009 (public affairs). He has held research fellowships at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and at the Sine Institute of Policy & Politics at American University. In fall 2021, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He is a graduate of the City College of New York.