Advisory Board

Noah Adams, National Public Radio;
Marilou Awiakta, poet, storyteller, essayist;
The Honorable Howard H. Baker, U.S. Ambassador to Japan;
The Honorable Rick Boucher, U.S. House of Representatives, Virginia;
Daniel W. Brown, superintendent, Blue Ridge Parkway;
Wilma Dykeman, author, historian, lecturer;
Gary Everhardt, former superintendent, Blue Ridge Parkway
Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair, Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research;
The Honorable Nancy Hollister, Ohio House of Representatives;
The Honorable Amory Houghton Jr., U.S. House of Representatives, New York;
The Honorable Bill Jenkins, U.S. House of Representatives, Tennessee;
Bill Kovach, journalist, former curator, Nieman Foundation;
Juanita Morris Kreps, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1977-1979), Vice President Emeritus, Duke University;
Alice Manicur, vice president, Frostburg State University;
David McCullough, author and historian;
Zell Bryan Miller, U.S. Senator, Georgia;
Roy S. Nicks, chancellor emeritus, Tennessee Board of Regents;
Anne Pope, federal co-chair, Appalachian Regional Commission;
Jean Ritchie, singer, songwriter, folklorist;
Albert P. Smith Jr., journalist;
Lee Smith, novelist, North Carolina State University;
Ross Spears III, documentary filmmaker, director, James Agee Film Project;
Jane B. Stephenson, Appalachian Director, Steele-Reese Foundation;
Jesse L. White, former federal co-chair, Appalachian Regional Commission