Vanessa Gallman

Vanessa Gallman, a former student of the Black Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, worked 43 years in newspapering. Her career included: editorial page editor at the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader; national correspondent with Knight-Ridder Newspapers; local government editor at The Washington Post; and reporter for The Charlotte Observer. A 1976 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's journalism school, she also held assistant professorships at Florida A&M University and the University of Maryland at College Park. She served as president of the now-Association of Opinion Journalists and has been a member and chair of Pulitzer Prize juries.