Andrews, a former advisor to President George W. Bush and the World Bank, has been a strategist and consultant to corporate, public sector, and nonprofit clients all over the world. She earned an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where in 2010 she was a resident fellow in the Institute of Politics.…

(1946 – 2016) Ansley served on the boards of the Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta Preservation Center, Trust for Public Land in Georgia, Atlanta Girls School, and many others. For three years she served as regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, with which she had been involved for more than two decades. Charged with the mission of educating the public about George Washington,…

(1903 – 1992) Ashworth was a friend of the historian Douglas Southall Freeman, who enlisted Ashworth’s help in editing and writing footnotes for his multivolume biography of George Washington. After Freeman’s death in 1953, Ashworth continued with the project, first as a liaison between the staff working on the series and the publisher, and then, on the seventh and final volume,…

Atwell holds a B.A. in English with a  concentration in creative writing. She is the author of the novel Wild Girls (Scribner 2012). Her short fiction has appeared in journals including Epoch and Alaska Quarterly Review, and in the anthologies Best New American Voices and Best American Mystery Stories.…

Austin has dedicated herself to preserving and restoring the biodiversity of the borderland region between the United States and Mexico. She and her husband established the foundation Cuenca de Los Ojos, which translates to “Watershed of the Springs.” This network of educators, scientists, ranchers, and governmental agencies has brought to fruition more than 20,000 rock dams to slow flooding rainfall and repair grasslands,…