Margaret Low is the CEO of Boston’s WBUR — an award-winning producer of high-quality journalism on-air, online, on demand and on stage at CitySpace. WBUR has one of the strongest local newsrooms in America, with dozens of journalists covering consequential issues in the region. Before joining WBUR in January 2020, Low was president of AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s events division, which during her tenure produced more than 100 conferences annually across the country. Prior to The Atlantic, Low enjoyed a storied career at NPR. She started as an overnight production assistant on Morning Edition, advanced to vice president for programming for all non-news shows, and ultimately became senior vice president for news — NPR’s top editorial job overseeing the work of some 400 journalists worldwide. Among Margaret’s most notable accomplishments — transforming studio-based radio quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! into a live, award-winning road show and business success story

Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist who writes about race and identity and a professor at Northeastern University, a senior fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He holds fellowships from New America, PEN America, and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study He is the author of the book We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power (Riverhead Books, 2022), which offers a narrative account of how many Black Native Americans were divided and marginalized by white supremacy in America. Winner of the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, Gayle’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, TIME, The Guardian, Guernica, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, among many other publications. His nonfiction work has been recognized as part of the Notable Essays Collection of the 2019 Best American Essays.