Dwight E. Brooks is professor and director of the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University. Brooks' teaching and research focuses on media diversity, media literacy, and race, class and gender media representations. Brooks is a member of the Minorities & Communications and Cultural & Critical Studies divisions as well as the Commission on the Status of Minorities. Brooks serves on the Nominations and Diversity Committees of ASJMC. He also is an alumna of the Journalism Leadership Institute for Diversity (JLID). Brooks earned a PhD from The University of Iowa and an MA from The Ohio State University.

Diane L. Borden is the director of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at San Diego State University, where she has served on the faculty since 1998. Previously, she held tenure-track positions at George Mason University and at Temple University. Borden teaches mass communication law and theory as well as media ethics. Her research examines the intersection of gender and freedom of expression. She came to academe after a lengthy career in professional journalism. She has been a member of AEJMC since 1993 and is a member of the Law Division and the Commission on the Status of Women.

Patricia Curtin is professor and public relations endowed chair in the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Oregon. Her research applies varied theoretical and methodological approaches to agenda building and cross-cultural public relations campaigns. A former head of the Public Relations Division, Curtin chaired AEJMC's Council of Divisions' Chip Task Force. She was book review editor for JMC Quarterly, reviews manuscripts for major journals and conferences, and serves on the editorial boards of three journals. She served as the School's representative to the IRB, defending journalists' first amendment rights while protecting the interests of human subjects.

Carol M. Liebler is associate professor of Communication and director of the PhD and Media Studies Programs in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Liebler's research centers on media and diversity issues, and her projects share a common thread of a concern for social justice. Current work examines predictors of news media visibility of missing children and the use of social media in searching for missing children. Liebler is a former head of the Mass Communication and Society Division, and previously served on the Standing Committee for Research. As the mother of three daughters from China, Liebler is an outspoken advocate for international adoption, and has authored several op-ed pieces on this topic.

David D. Perlmutter is Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Professor and Starch Faculty Fellow at The University of Iowa. He is the author or editor of seven books on political communication and persuasion and has written several dozen research articles for academic journals as well as more than 200 essays for U.S. and international newspapers and magazines. He writes a regular column, "P&T Confidential," for the Chronicle of Higher Education. His book on promotion and tenure is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Perlmutter has been interviewed by most major news networks and newspapers, from the New York Times to CNN and ABC and, most recently, The Daily Show.

Bonnie J. Brownlee is associate professor of journalism at Indiana University. She has been involved in the internationalization of the school's journalism curriculum, serves on the university's Overseas Study Advisory Council and currently teaches a course on media in Latin America. Students visit Chile as a part of the class. For the last nine years she has served as a site team member on ACEJMC accrediting teams to 10 journalism programs in the United States. Brownlee is co-author (with Dave Weaver, Cleve Wilhoit, Randy Beam and Paul Voakes) of The American Journalist in the 21st Century.

Charles N. Davis is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the executive director for the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC), headquartered at the School. Davis' scholarly research focuses on access to governmental information and media law. He has published in law reviews and scholarly journals on issues ranging from federal and state freedom of information laws to libel law, privacy and broadcast regulation. In 2009, Davis was named the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Teacher of the Year.

Jennifer Greer is chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Alabama and a member of the Elected Standing Committee on Teaching. Greer has twice been awarded college-wide teaching awards and has been involved with curriculum review and revision for more than a decade. She has held leadership roles in AEJMC for 13 years. Greer has led campus readership programs at Nevada and Alabama, assisting faculty who use newspapers in the classroom. She researches media effects, gender, and emerging media and is a member of the editorial boards of Mass Communication & Society and Journalism & Communication Monographs.