BIOGRAPHIES

Michele Norris, an award-winning journalist is a host of All Things Considered for National Public Radio. Norris has also reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and LA Times. Norris was a contributing correspondent for ABC News for the Closer Look segments on World News Tonight, in which she reported extensively on education, inner city issues, and the nation's drug problem. A four-time Pulitzer Prize entrant, Norris has received numerous awards for her work, including the 1990 Livingston Award and both an Emmy Award and Peabody Award for her contribution to the ABC News network's coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A veteran broadcast journalist and documentarian whose credits include ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, 20/20 and Our World. He is the Executive Producer/Director of the original multiple award-winning “Then I’ll Be Free To Travel Home” video documentary. Among other documentaries Mr. Tait has produced and directed, the following have aired on PBS: “Across The River with Hedrick Smith,” “Fire In Their Eyes,” and “The Legacy of Maggie’s American Dream.” He has been selected as the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award in Broadcasting Honoree by the New York Association of Black Journalists.