Past chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Roger Wilkins is now a professor at George Mason University. During the Johnson administration, Wilkins served as assistant attorney general. In a distinguished journalism career, he has written for both the New York Times and the Washington Post, and he was associate editor of the Washington Star. While on the editorial page staff of the Washington Post, he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for Watergate coverage with Woodward, Bernstein and Herblock.

Among an array of public service activities, he served as past chair of the Board of Trustees of the Africa America Institute and is a member of the Board of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is publisher of NAACP’s journal Crisis and has served on the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia and on the District of Columbia Board of Education. His book Jefferson’s Pillow; The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism was published in 2001 and won the 2002 NAIBA Book Award for Adult Non-Fiction.