Pulitzer Prize Board 2025-2026
A prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post-communist Europe, Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including "Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine" (2017); "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe" (2012); and "Gulag: A History" (2003), which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Both "Gulag" and "Iron Curtain" were finalists for the National Book Award.
A columnist for The Washington Post for fifteen years, she is a former member of The Washington Post editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine in London, and a former Warsaw correspondent of The Economist magazine and the Independent newspaper. She also has written for the New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs and currently holds the position of senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads ARENA, a research project on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.
Applebaum is a graduate of Yale University and received an M.Sc. in international relations from the London School of Economics. She also was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and holds honorary doctorates from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Kyiv Mohyla University.
Applebaum joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2021.
John Archibald, a two-time Pulitzer winner, is a reporter and columnist at AL.com, and an award-winning podcaster. Archibald won the Pulitzer for Commentary in 2018 for his “lyrical and courageous” columns. He also was the lead reporter on AL.com’s 2023 Local Reporting Prize-winning investigation of out-of-control policing in the tiny Alabama town of Brookside.
In 2021, Archibald wrote and co-hosted the national Murrow Award-winning podcast Unjustifiable, the story of a Black woman killed by Birmingham police in 1979. He is the author of Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution, one of NPR’s favorite books of 2021. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2020-2021 and the inaugural writer in residence at Boston University in 2023.
“I love what the Pulitzers stand for, what they mean to journalists trying to do good work in a hard world. They don’t just recognize excellence, they inspire it,” Archibald said. “I’m also in awe of the remarkable people on this Board. I shake myself from time to time to make sure this really is my life.”
Archibald joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2024.
Nancy Barnes is an Editor At Large of The Boston Globe. A veteran journalist who has held the top job at news organizations across the country, Barnes has produced journalism of the highest caliber. Prior to joining the Globe, she was the SVP/News & Editorial Director of NPR from 2018 through 2022, where she led a team of more than 500 journalists and newsroom executives and oversaw NPR's journalism across platforms and around the world. Barnes has a proven track record of elevating metro news outlets to their highest potential. As SVP/News for Hearst Texas newspapers and Executive Editor of The Houston Chronicle from 2013 to 2018, the paper won its first Pulitzer Prize and earned three Pulitzer Finalist nods. As SVP & Editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 2007 to 2013, she led the newsroom to win multiple national awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting. She is a past president of the News Leaders Association and a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. A native of Massachusetts, she has an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.
Barnes joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2017.
Nicole Carroll joined the ASU Media Enterprise on May 1, 2023 as executive director of a new initiative focused on reimagining local journalism. Carroll is also a professor of practice in the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is an alumna of the Cronkite School and an inductee to its Hall of Fame.
As the head of the ASU Local Journalism Initiative, Carroll will work with Arizona State University's Media Enterprise team, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and other university departments to develop new strategies for reporting on local communities, as well as innovations and business models to help local news operations thrive. Carroll brings more than three decades of journalism experience and a track record of success in leading newsrooms at some of the nation's top publications.
ASU Media Enterprise is a nonprofit, nonpartisan collection of media outlets that empowers, engages and educates. The organization’s public service mission seeks to share stories that enlighten and enrich communities and focus on topics ranging from science and technology to the arts and social change.
As editor of The Arizona Republic, where she spent almost 20 years, Carroll led a project on the proposed U.S. border wall that won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize. In addition, she led breaking news coverage recognized as a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2012 and 2014. Carroll was named editor-in-chief at USA Today in 2018. That same year, she was named the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation. USA Today and The Arizona Republic are owned by Gannett, Co., for which Carroll also served as president of news.
Carroll is also a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board (which she joined in 2018) and a four-time juror of the prestigious journalism prize.
Gina Chua is the Executive Director of the Tow-Knight Center at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she focuses on the intersection of journalism and AI. She’s concurrently Executive Editor at Large at Semafor, a global news startup she joined in May 2022 as part of the founding team. She was previously Executive Editor at Reuters, where she oversaw newsroom operations, logistics, budgets, safety and security, and worked with technology teams to develop newsroom tools, among other responsibilities. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post and The Asian Wall Street Journal, a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal in New York, and a foreign correspondent in Singapore, Manila and Hanoi. A native of Singapore, she graduated from Columbia Journalism School and the University of Chicago.
Chua joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2024.
Jelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019.
He is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress and To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. He is the editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Matter of Black Lives, a collection of The New Yorker’s writings on race and The Essential Kerner Commission Report. He is producer or co-producer on a number of documentaries including Lincoln’s Dilemma, Obama: A More Perfect Union, Policing the Police and THE RIOT REPORT.
Dr. Cobb was educated at Jamaica High School in Queens, NY, Howard University, where he earned a B.A. in English, and Rutgers University, where he completed his M.A. and doctorate in American History in 2003. He is also a recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Journalism Project and the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library. He received an Honorary Doctorate for the Advancement of Science and Art from Cooper Union in 2022, and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Rutgers University in 2024. York College / CUNY and Teachers College have honored Dr. Cobb with medals.
Dr. Cobb was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023.
Cobb joined the Pulitzer Prize Board upon assuming his current role in 2022. The Dean serves as an ex officio/non-voting member of the Board for the duration of his, her or their appointment.
Gabriel Escobar is the editor and senior vice president of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which was founded in 1829 and is one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the Western Hemisphere. The Philadelphia Inquirer LLC has multiple brand platforms, including Inquirer.com, newspapers, e-editions, apps, newsletters and live events, that reach more than 10 million people a month.
He spent 16 years at The Washington Post, as a reporter on the local and national staffs, a foreign correspondent based in South America and as city editor. At the Inquirer he has worked as managing editor, deputy managing editor for Metro and as assistant managing editor for news. Escobar also worked at The Hartford Courant, the Philadelphia Daily News and The Dallas Morning News, where he was an editorial writer and columnist.
Born in Bogota, Colombia and raised in New York City, Escobar has a B.A. in creative writing from Queens College, CUNY, and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
Escobar joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2021.
Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” Vijay Iyer has carved out a unique path as a prolific, shape-shifting presence in American music. A composer and pianist active across multiple musical communities, Iyer has created a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work over the last thirty years.
He received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, the Greenfield Prize, three Grammy nominations, the Alpert Award in the Arts, two German Echo Awards, and the Dutch Edison Prize, and was voted DownBeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year four times. Iyer’s musical language is grounded in the rhythmic traditions of South Asia and West Africa, the African American creative music movement of the 60s and 70s, and the lineage of composer-pianists from Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk to Alice Coltrane and Geri Allen. Iyer has released twenty-eight albums. Spring 2025 brought the release of Defiant Life (ECM Records), Iyer’s second suite of duets with visionary composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The New Yorker describes their powerful, provocative music as “a two-figure play in which the exchanges involve mortality or impermanence or divinity.” In fall 2025, Thereupon (Pi Recordings) documents the long-awaited return of Fieldwork, an all-star collective comprising Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. In 2024 Iyer released Compassion (ECM Records), featuring his celebrated trio with Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh. The New York Times observed, “It’s as if this band wants to both seduce you and discomfit you, stripping you of everything but the ability to think and see for yourself.” Other recent releases include Love In Exile (Verve, 2023), a Grammy-nominated collaboration with vocalist Arooj Aftab and bassist Shahzad Ismaily; Uneasy (ECM Records, 2021), the acclaimed first trio session with Sorey and Oh; and Far From Over (ECM, 2017) with the award-winning Vijay Iyer Sextet.
In addition to his work as a composer-performer and ensemble leader, Iyer is also an active composer for classical ensembles and soloists. His works have been commissioned, premiered, and recorded by Brentano Quartet, Imani Winds, Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Silk Road Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, A Far Cry, Sō Percussion, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, LAPhil Group for New Music, American Composers Orchestra, The Knights, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), and virtuosi Jennifer Koh, Matt Haimowitz, Claire Chase, Shai Wosner, Inbal Segev, and Mishka Rushdie Momen, among others. In June 2024 the Boston Modern Orchestra Project released Trouble (BMOP/sound), a portrait album consisting of three of Iyer’s major works, of which The Wire (UK) stated, “This music is both uplifting and instructive; it enlightens through its irresistible buoyancy.” Iyer recently served as composer-in-residence at London’s Wigmore Hall, music director of the Ojai Music Festival, and artist-in-residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. His scores are published by Schott Music. He recently served as composer-in-residence at London’s Wigmore Hall, music director of the Ojai Music Festival, and artist-in-residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. A tireless collaborator, he has also written big-band music for Arturo O’Farrill and Darcy James Argue, remixed classic recordings of Talvin Singh and Meredith Monk, joined forces with renowned musicians Henry Threadgill, Reggie Workman, Zakir Hussain, and L. Subramanian, and developed interdisciplinary projects with Teju Cole, Carrie Mae Weems, Mike Ladd, Julie Mehretu, Prashant Bhargava, Robin Coste Lewis, and Karole Armitage.
Iyer’s scholarship dwells at the intersections of music studies, Black studies, and the sciences. After graduating from Yale College in Mathematics and Physics in 1992, he began a doctoral program in physics at UC Berkeley, but soon chose to focus on his musical pursuits instead. In 1995 he assembled an ad hoc interdisciplinary Phd program at UC Berkeley, titled Technology and the Arts. His 1998 PhD dissertation developed a perspective on embodied music cognition, drawing on case studies and epistemologies from West African and Afrodiasporic musics and the then-emerging paradigms of embodied and situated cognition. This research at once supplemented and critiqued the prevailing information-processing paradigm in music cognition, decentered that field’s Eurocentric orientation, and prefigured the so-called “embodied turn” in music studies. His dissertation advisors included David Wessel, George E. Lewis, Olly Wilson, and Erv Hafter. His subsequent writings have appeared in edited volumes Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings, The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century, Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, Arcana IV: Musicians on Music, Epiphanies, and the journals Jazz and Culture, Current Musicology, Journal of the Society for American Music, Critical Studies in Improvisation, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Music Perception, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He wrote the foreword to the 2025 reissue of Igor Stravinsky's Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (Harvard University Press).
At Harvard, Iyer is the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, with a joint appointment in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies. Many of his courses are cross-listed in both departments. He teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level, both for student music-makers of all kinds and for music scholars in training. Iyer also founded the Department of Music’s doctoral program in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry (CPCI).
Iyer joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2026.
Carlos Lozada is an Opinion columnist and cohost of the weekly “Matter of Opinion” podcast for The New York Times, based in Washington, D.C.
What I Focus On
I write about politics, culture, history and policy, mainly through the prism of nonfiction books or other texts, like Supreme Court opinions, congressional investigations or commission reports. I’m especially intrigued by how public figures reveal themselves, intentionally or unwittingly, through their writings. When I write about campaign books, political biographies or Washington memoirs, people often say to me, "You read those books so we don’t have to!" True, you don’t have to — but trust me that there is much to learn in them. I try to avoid armchair opinion-mongering. Instead, I try to give a fair hearing to a variety of ideas and arguments and then help readers draw their own conclusions, as I draw mine.
My Background
Before joining The Times in 2022, I spent 17 years at the Washington Post, where I was the nonfiction book critic, Outlook editor, national security editor and economics editor. Previously, I was the managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. Early in my career, I was a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank and an analyst in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. I studied economics and political science at the University of Notre Dame and did graduate studies in public policy at Princeton University and in journalism at Columbia University. I was born in Lima, Peru, and became a U.S. citizen in 2014. I received the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2019 and currently serve on the Pulitzer Board.
Journalistic Ethics
I strive for fairness, honesty and depth. I believe that there is something called truth, and I do my best to approximate it. My overriding value is skepticism. Along with all Times journalists, I am committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook.
Contact Me
You can reach me via email or on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Email: [email protected]
X (Twitter): @CarlosNYT
Lozada joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2019.
Kelly Lytle Hernández holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of the award-winning books Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022). She also leads the Million Dollar Hoods research initiative, which maps fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hernández was named a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Lytle Hernández joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2020.
Kevin Merida is an independent journalist, storyteller and media executive. He is the former executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Under his leadership, the newspaper won four Pulitzer Prizes and its first Oscar for the documentary short film, “The Last Repair Shop.” The Times also implemented a range of new initiatives, including the “Fast Break Desk” for breaking news and trending topics, “the 404” social content creation team, the Latino identity and culture vertical “De Los,” and a reimagined climate, science and health coverage department. Before joining the Times in June 2021, Merida was a senior vice president at ESPN and editor in chief of The Undefeated (now Andscape), a multimedia platform that explores the intersections of race, sports, and culture. During his tenure at ESPN, he also oversaw the investigative/news enterprise unit, the shows “Outside the Lines” and “E60,” and chaired ESPN’s Editorial Board. While at ESPN, the journalism he helmed received three National Sports Emmys. Before joining ESPN, Merida spent 22 years at the Washington Post in a variety of reporting, writing and leadership roles. He covered Congress and national politics, was a longform feature writer for the Style section, a columnist for the Sunday magazine, associate editor, national editor, and managing editor for news and features coverage. As managing editor, he helped lead The Post to four Pulitzer Prizes and the paper embarked on a digital transformation that made it one of the fastest growing news organizations in the country. Earlier in his career, Merida was a general assignment reporter at The Milwaukee Journal. He also spent 10 years at The Dallas Morning News in various roles, including covering the White House and overseeing foreign and national news coverage. Merida is co-author of “Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas” and the bestselling “Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs.” He also is the editor of and a contributor to the anthology, “Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril,” based on an award-winning Washington Post series. He has been honored with numerous awards for journalism, including from the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and the University of Michigan. In 2020, he was given the Chuck Stone Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Association of Black Journalists, and was named NABJ’s Journalist of the Year in 2000. In 1990, Merida was a Pulitzer Prize finalist as part of a Dallas Morning News team reporting on the world’s “hidden wars.” Merida is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, the KFF Board of Trustees, the Boston University Board of Trustees, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is married to author and essayist Donna Britt, and they have three sons–Justin, Darrell and Skye–and a grandson, Syd.
Merida joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2020.
Marjorie Miller, previously vice president and global enterprise editor at The Associated Press, was named administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes after a broad search. The appointment, effective April 11, 2022, was announced by the Pulitzer Prize Board and by Lee C. Bollinger, then president of Columbia University, which is home to the administration of the prestigious prizes in journalism, letters, drama and music.
Miller has had a long and celebrated career in journalism. She was a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, before becoming Foreign Editor. Under her editorship, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for Russia coverage and was a finalist for Iraq War coverage. Miller also wrote editorials on international affairs.
In 2010, Miller joined the AP in Mexico City as regional editor for Latin America and the Caribbean, where her staff won U.S. and international prizes for coverage of violence in Central America and Mexico. In 2015 she moved to New York to oversee enterprise and investigative projects in all formats, including work from Yemen that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Miller serves on the boards of the Overseas Press Club, the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Foundation and the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a University Professor, Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and the novel The Sympathizer, from Grove/Atlantic (2015). The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, an Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, le Prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book in France), a California Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. The novel made it to over thirty book-of-the-year lists, including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, Slate.com, and The Washington Post. The foreign rights have been sold to twenty-seven countries.
He is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War from Harvard University Press (2016, foreign rights to four countries), which is the critical bookend to a creative project whose fictional bookend is The Sympathizer. Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction, examines how the so-called Vietnam War has been remembered by many countries and people, from the US to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea. Kirkus Reviews calls the book “a powerful reflection on how we choose to remember and forget.” It has won the the John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook/Primer from the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association and the Réné Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Comparative Literature from the American Comparative Literature Association. Foreign rights have been sold to four countries.
His current book is The Committed, the sequel to The Sympathizer.
Other books include The Refugees, a short story collection from Grove Press (2017, foreign rights to fourteen countries), and The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, which he edited. He has written for The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and other venues. Along with Janet Hoskins, he co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). His articles have appeared in numerous journals and books, including PMLA, American Literary History, Western American Literature, positions: east asia cultures critique, The New Centennial Review, Postmodern Culture, the Japanese Journal of American Studies, and Asian American Studies After Critical Mass. Many of his articles can be downloaded here. Most recently, he has also edited the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, his former teacher.
He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the James Irvine Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation. Most recently he has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, appointed as a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, and received honorary doctorates from Uppsala University, Colgate University, and Franklin and Marshall College.
His teaching and service awards include the Mellon Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students, the Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Junior Faculty Award for outstanding research, teaching and service, the General Education Teaching Award, and the Resident Faculty of the Year Award. Multimedia has been a key part of his teaching. In a recent course on the American War in Viet Nam, he and his students created An Other War Memorial, which won a grant from the Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching and the USC Provost’s Prize for Teaching with Technology. It is also archived at the USC Library.
Nguyen joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2020.
Julie Pace is Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of The Associated Press, leading global news coverage from more than 100 countries. Since Pace assumed the role in 2021, AP has significantly expanded its digital news offerings for media and technology customers and led the growth of AP’s direct to consumer platforms, which are among the fastest growing in the U.S. Under Pace’s leadership, AP has also expanded its use of AI technologies to enhance its product offerings, while maintaining the news organization’s deep commitment to eyewitness journalism and fact-based, nonpartisan news. During Pace’s tenure, the AP has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes, and produced an award-winning documentary on the Ukraine war that won an Academy Award and a BAFTA.
Previously, Pace was Washington Bureau Chief for AP, directing the news organization’s coverage of the presidency, politics and the U.S. government during President Donald Trump’s first term in office.
Before that, Pace was AP’s White House Correspondent, contributing aggressive news reporting and sharp analysis to the AP news report. Pace won the White House Correspondents’ Association Merriman Smith award in 2013 for her work explaining the Obama campaign’s complex approach to voter turnout.
She joined AP in 2007 as a multimedia reporter, developing and executing AP’s plans for live video coverage of 2008′s Election Day and the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
A native of Buffalo, New York, Pace began her career as a reporter in 2003 at South Africa’s only independent television network, before spending two years reporting on politics and elections at the Tampa Tribune and its partner television station WFLA. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. She lives in New York.
Pace joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2026.
David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. He has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Bruce Springsteen, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, Benjamin Netanyahu, Leonard Cohen, and Mavis Staples. He also serves as the host of the magazine’s national radio program and podcast, “The New Yorker Radio Hour.”
Remnick began his reporting career in 1982, as a staff writer at the Washington Post, where he covered stories for the Metro, Sports, and Style sections. In 1988, he started a four-year assignment as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book, “Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.” In 1994, “Lenin’s Tomb” received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.
Under Remnick’s leadership, The New Yorker has become the country’s most honored magazine. It has won more than fifty National Magazine Awards during his tenure, including multiple citations for general excellence. In 2016, The New Yorker became the first magazine to receive a Pulitzer Prize for its writing, and now has won six Pulitzers, including the gold medal for public service. Remnick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2016.
Remnick has written seven books: “Lenin’s Tomb,” “Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia,” “King of the World” (a biography of Muhammad Ali), and “The Bridge” (a biography of Barack Obama), along with “The Devil Problem,” “Reporting,” and “Holding the Note,” which are collections of some of his pieces from the magazine. He has also edited or co-edited many anthologies of New Yorker articles, including “The Matter of Black Lives,” “The Fragile Earth,” “Life Stories,” “Wonderful Town,” “The New Gilded Age,” “Fierce Pajamas,” “Disquiet, Please!,” and “Secret Ingredients.”
Remnick has taught at Princeton University, where he received his B.A., in 1981, and at Columbia University. He lives in New York with his wife, Esther Fein; they have three children, Alex, Noah, and Natasha.
Remnick joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2019.
Ginger Thompson is a managing editor at ProPublica. A Pulitzer Prize winner, she previously spent 15 years at The New York Times as the Mexico City bureau chief and as an investigative reporter. Her work has exposed the consequences of Washington’s policies in Latin America, particularly policies involving immigration, political upheaval and the fight against drug cartels.
Thompson also served as a Latin America correspondent at The Baltimore Sun, where she co-wrote a series of stories about U.S. support for a secret Honduran military unit that kidnapped, tortured and murdered hundreds of suspected leftists; work that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also parachuted into breaking news events across the region, including Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela.
Her work has won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, an InterAmerican Press Association Award, and an Overseas Press Club Award. She was part of a team of national reporters at The Times that was awarded a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the series “How Race is Lived in America.” She was also part of a team of reporters at ProPublica whose coverage of the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy won numerous other awards, including a Polk Award, a Peabody Award, a Tobenkin Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public service.
Thompson graduated from Purdue University, where she was managing editor of the campus newspaper, The Exponent. She earned a Master of Public Policy from George Washington University, with a focus on human rights law.
Thompson joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2022.
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th poet laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Native Guard (2006) — for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize — and, most recently, Monument: Poems New and Selected (2018); a book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010); a memoir, Memorial Drive (2020), an instant New York Times Bestseller; and The House of Being (2024), a meditation on writing.
She is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Philosophical Society. In 2017 she received the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities.
A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets since 2019, Trethewey was awarded the 2020 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize in Poetry for Lifetime Achievement from the Library of Congress. In 2022 she was the William B. Hart Poet in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Currently, she is Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University.
“I am honored to join the esteemed members of the Pulitzer Board,” Trethewey said. “I look forward to participating in the great tradition of celebrating American excellence in journalism, the arts, and letters — some of our most enduring cultural productions, the many ways we articulate the stories that matter, that give meaning and shape to our lives.”
Trethewey joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2024.