Jim Cameron of Michigan is no stranger to many at NCHE. He taught U.S. and Michigan History for 40 years, primarily at Saline High School, Michigan, and is currently the Michigan State Coordinator for Social Studies. Jim also serves as Executive Director of the Michigan Council for History Education and is a Board member of the Historical Society of Michigan. His book, Voices over the Valley, An Oral History of Saline Valley Farms, 1932-1953, published in 2004, won a Distinguished Book Award in 2005. Cameron was awarded the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s History Teacher of the year Award for Michigan in 2010.

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Cokie Roberts of Maryland is a nationally known, Emmy Award-winning writer, broadcaster, and political commentator. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting. Ms. Roberts has written extensively and published several nationwide bestsellers, including We Are Our Mother's Daughters, Founding Mothers, and Ladies of Liberty. She is currently a contributor to NPR's Morning Editionand a political commentator and analyst for ABC News.

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Barbara Winslow is a historian who teaches in the School of  Education and for the Women's Studies Program. Her areas of specialization are in social studies curriculum development, integrating computer based multi-media technology into the urban classroom at both the elementary and secondary school level. She also specializes in integrating class, race and gender into the elementary and secondary curriculum.  She received a Ph.D. in European and US women's history from the University of Washington.