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Susan Burns spent 34 years as a writer and editor for SagaCity Media (formerly Gulfshore Media) in Sarasota, where she was founding editor of a regional business magazine and editor-in-chief of Sarasota Magazine before retiring in 2022. A New College alum, she sat on the New College Foundation board from 2020 to 2024 and served as chair of the governance committee.

Sophia Brown is the Program Coordinator of PEN America Florida. She graduated from New College in 2023, where she studied English with a slash in Rhetoric in Writing and served as the Editor in Chief of the student-run newspaper, the Catalyst, from Fall 2021 to Spring 2023. She was also the student commencement speaker for the 2023 Commencement, and for the first ever [NEW] Commencement alternative graduation ceremony. The takeover of her alma mater and the incredible community of alumni and nation-wide supporters of the liberal arts that sprung up around it have inspired her to dedicate her early career to protecting public education and free expression in Florida.

Daniel F. Chambliss (B.A. New College, 1975; PhD Yale University, 1982) is the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Hamilton College, and co-author, with his former student Chris Takacs, of How College Works. In 1991 Chambliss’s book Champions: The Making of Olympic Swimmers, was named “Book of the Year” by the U.S. Olympic Committee, and he has received the American Sociological Association’s Theory section prize for his work on organizational excellence. In 1998 he won the ASA’s Eliot Freidson prize for his book Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics. He is also co-author, with Russell Schutt, of Making Sense of the Social World, a research methods text currently in its fifth edition.