by Steve Earle, singer-songwriter
by Caitlin Patton, North Carolina Humanities Council
by Scott Gartlan, Executive Director, Charlotte Teachers Institute
by Kamille Bostick, Vice President, Education Programs, Levine Museum of the New South
by Deborah Jung, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District
by Kathryn Bentley, Arts & Science Council
by Theresa Pierce, Rowan County Early College
by Christina Lohry, Chantilly Montessori School, Charlotte, NC
by Steve Oreskovic, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District
by Julie Mullis, Wilkes Community College
by Tim Miller, Salisbury University
by Craig Watson, former director of the California Arts Council
by Malcolm Margolin, author, publisher, and founder of Heyday Books
by Luis Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2014
by Larry Kramer, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
by Betty Reid Soskin, U.S. National Park Service Ranger
by Averill Corkin, Graduate Student, Harvard University
by Jaroslav Folda, N. Ferebee Taylor Professor emeritus, UNC
by Ben Vinson III, Provost and Executive Vice President of Case Western Reserve University
by Mirah Horowitz, Russell Reynolds Associates
by Scott, 34, former journalist