PRESS KIT
RECIPIENTS
JUDY WOODRUFF
Judy Woodruff has spent her illustrious career in network, cable, and public television news protecting and defending First Amendment freedoms, and inspiring people to speak truth to power. Beginning as a White House correspondent with NBC News, and currently serving as senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, after 11 years as its anchor and managing editor, she has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976 and moderated presidential debates. She is also a dedicated advocate for women in journalism, co-founding the International Women’s Media Foundation in 1990. Her newest project, “America at a Crossroads,” is dedicated to understanding the divisions facing our country and how to heal them.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN
Co-founder and co-chairman of the Carlyle Group David Rubenstein works tirelessly to preserve American history and improve our country’s civic knowledge. He has made transformative gifts for the restoration or repairs of our national monuments, preserved rare documents that he has loaned to civic institutions from the National Archives to the NCC, and supported numerous other restoration, building, and collection projects. He also serves as the host of multiple programs, and is the author of four books, including The American Story and The American Experiment. He is chairman of the boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Gallery of Art, among a number of other boards, and also serves as a trustee of the National Constitution Center.
CONTACT
Moira Bagley Smith
Communications Director
202-590-6263
msmith@constitutioncenter.org