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Andy Carvin (andycarvin.com, @acarvin on Twitter) leads NPR's social media strategy and is NPR's primary voice on Twitter, and Facebook, where NPR became the first news organization to reach one million fans. He also advises NPR staff on how to better engage the NPR audience in editorial activities in order to further the quality and diversity of NPR's journalism.

Joyce Slocum is President and CEO of Texas Public Radio, leading a team of more than 50 staff in passionate service to TPR's mission. Since Slocum joined the organization in 2014, TPR has expanded and enhanced its news coverage, including as a lead station for The Texas Newsroom, developed a robust events practice (now being executed virtually) and built its new headquarters in downtown San Antonio.

Last week a paper copy of the Ten Commandments once again found its way to a place of prominence: the front door of the Shelby County Courthouse.

John Freeman is the editor of Grantamagazine. A former president of the National Book Critics Circle, his criticism has appeared in publications around the world, including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Book Review. His latest book is The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox.

Jessica Goldstein is the senior director of NPR's events and strategic initiatives. In this role, she oversees all of NPR's editorial content live events including the Tiny Desk Contest and the How I Built This live shows and summit. Previously, Goldstein was the senior supervising producer at NPR Music where she helped define and lead many of NPR Music's major content initiatives across multiple platforms, including with the news magazines, podcasts, and multimedia projects.

Laura Lorson is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. It was there that she learned how to read, write, and make the occasional decent piece of fried chicken. A complicated set of family moves eventually led her to Kansas, which is how she ended up graduating from the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1989. She began working in radio in 1990 and worked for NPR in Washington throughout most of the 1990s as a director, producer, and editor for Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and the former NPR show Anthem.