Ken Gormley

Ken Gormley is the President of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Gormley earned his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1977, summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980, serving as a teaching assistant to Professor Archibald Cox in Constitutional Law. In 1994, Dean Gormley joined the faculty at Duquesne University School of Law as associate professor, and was promoted to full professor in 1997. He taught courses in ​Constitutional Law, Civil Rights Litigation, State ​Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, First Amendment, and Legal Writing. He served as Dean of the Law School from 2010 to 2016. A renowned author, Gormley is the editor of The Pennsylvania Constitution: A Treatise on Rights and Liberties (Bisel 2004 and Supp. 2015). He authored Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation (Perseus Books 1997), which was awarded the 1999 Bruce K. Gould Book Award for an outstanding publication relating to the law. Gormley also published The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr (Crown 2010), a New York Times bestseller that received the American Bar Association’s prestigious Silver Gavel Award (Honorable Mention) as well as critical acclaim in the New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice), Washington Post Book World, and other publications. Gormley has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, The Charlie Rose Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, NPR’s Fresh Air, and hundreds of television and radio shows in the United States and worldwide.

Vince Sherry

Vince Sherry is an award-winning television Producer/Writer whose work has appeared on NBC, PBS, Discov-ery, TNT, TLC, Fox, CourtTV, Lifetime, and internationally on Discovery International, BBC, Japan Broad-casting Corporation (NHK) and a host of other outlets. He is currently Supervising Producer for Forensic Files, which is being produced by CNN/Turner. In 2018, he won a national Emmy Award as Producer/Writer for Xploration Earth 2050, an educational show on future technology that was broadcast nationally on the Fox Network and internationally on the BBC.

Brent D. Glass

Brent D. Glass is Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the world’s largest museum devoted to telling the story of America. A national leader in the preservation, interpretation, and promotion of history, Glass is a public historian who today provides management and consulting services to museums, historical organizations, and cultural institutions throughout the United States and in other countries. His most recent book, 50 Great American Places (Simon and Schuster, 2016), explores the power of ​​essential historic sites and how they illuminate core themes in American history. Since 2012, Glass has served as a senior advisor to more than 50 cultural and educational institutions including the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation in Illinois, the Diplomacy Center in Washington, DC and Alexander Hamilton’s First Bank and Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is currently working with several museums under development including the National Railroad Hall of Fame in Galesburg, Illinois, and the Sing Sing Prison Museum in Ossining, New York. As director of the National Museum of American History (2002-2011) Glass led a two-year, $120 million renovation and the development of major exhibitions including the Star-Spangled Banner and permanent galleries on transportation, military, and maritime history. The museum now features innovative public programs, living history performances, and new theaters for films, lectures, and concerts.

Brendan Bray

Brendan Bray is the Director of the National Park Service’s Harpers Ferry Center for Media Services (HFC), which is committed to enhancing the visitor experience in national parks through the use of relevant, compelling interpretive media. Brendan formerly served as Chief Operating Officer for the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at NOAA, and was a member of the government’s scientific support team during emergency response and natural resource damage assessment phases of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) who excels at navigating and managing strategic, technical and organizational challenges.

Anita Erdös Forreste

Anita Erdös Forreste is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, and the Program Director of the Global Studies program at Northampton Community College. She graduated with a BA in both political science and in geography, and then an MA in geography from Hunter College of the CUNY. More recently she completed her EdD in Global and International Education from Drexel University. Growing up internationally, Anita has learned to appreciate the diversity that exists on our planet. Her passion is bringing global and environmental education and awareness to her students and to as many people as she can.