Meet the Members

Examiner Club members are drawn from academia, science, the arts, media, and civic life.

Emeritus membership is available for those over age 65 who have been Examiners for at least 10 years.  They are welcome to present at or participate in meetings.

  • Alfred M. Ajami

    Retiree in the rural mid-coast of Maine
    Emeritus member

    Bio
  • Jabari Asim

    Professor, Emerson College

    Bio
  • James Carroll

    Writer

    BIO
  • Chuck Collins

    Author
    Examiner Club Head of Nominating Committee

    Bio
  • Bonnie Costello

    Professor and Author

    Bio
  • Marion Dry

    President and Co-Chair, ClassACT HR73

    Bio
  • David Ellis

    Former President and Current Trustee Emeritus, Museum of Science

    Emeritus member

    BIO
  • Stephen Flynn

    Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University

    Bio
  • William (Ned) Friedman

    Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
    Examiner Club President

    Bio
  • Kevin Gallagher

    Professor and Director, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
    Examiner Club Treasurer

    Bio
  • Nancy Gertner

    U.S. District Court D. Mass. Judge (Ret.)

    Bio
  • Christopher Hasting

    Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer, WORLD Channel

    BIO
  • J. Bryan Hehir

    Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion in Public Life, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
    Emeritus member

    Bio
  • Emily Hiestand

    Director of Communications, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
    Emeritus member

    Bio
  • Gerald Holton

    Professor of Physics and of the History of Science, Emeritus, Harvard University
    Emeritus member

    BIO
  • Ellen Hume

    Journalist, Teacher, Civil Society Activist

    Bio
  • Derrick Z. Jackson

    Journalist, Author, and Photographer

    Bio
  • Robert L. Jaffe

    Morningstar Professor of Science, Post-Tenure at MIT

    BIO
  • Penelope Jencks

    Sculptor

    Bio
  • Thomas Forrest Kelly

    Morton B. Knafel Research Professor of Music, Harvard University

    Bio
  • Andrew Knoll

    Fisher Research Professor of Natural History, Harvard University

    Bio
  • Kristo Kondakçi

    Conductor and Creative Entrepreneur

    Bio
  • Christine Kondoleon

    Chair of Art of Ancient Greece and Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Bio
  • Robert Kuttner

    Journalist and Writer

    Bio
  • Renée M. Landers

    Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Suffolk University Law School
    Examiner Club Vice President

    Bio
  • Andrea P. Leers

    Architect and Educator

  • Susan Linn

    Founding Director, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (Fairplay)

    Bio
  • Renée Loth

    Journalist

    Bio
  • Lisa M. Lynch

    Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Brandeis University

    Bio
  • Juan Mandelbaum

    Filmmaker
    Examiner Club Head of Programming and Editor of the Monthly Newsletter

    Bio
  • Ranganath Nayak

    Chairman and CEO (retired)
    Examiner Club Historian

    Bio
  • M Lee Pelton

    President & CEO, the Boston Foundation

    Bio
  • Steven Pinker

    Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

    Bio
  • Dan Rasmussen

    Founder, Verdad Advisors

    Bio
  • Donald Shambroom

    Visual Artist and Writer

    Bio
  • Deborah Stone

    Professor Emerita, Brandeis University

    Bio
  • James M. Stone

    Chairman, Plymouth Rock Company

  • Kannan Thiruvengadam

    Executive Director, Eastie Farm

    Bio
  • Sherry Turkle

    Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT

    Bio
  • Peter Vanderwarker

    Photographer and Author

    Bio
  • Judith Vecchione

    Media Maker
    Examiner Club Editor for Website Content

    Bio
  • Rosanna Warren

    Writer and Professor
    Emeritus member

    Bio
  • Dan Wasserman

    Cartoonist

    Bio
  • Judith Wechsler

    Professor Emerita

    Bio
  • Bob Weinberg

    Professor of Biology, MIT

    Bio
  • Deborah Weisgall

    Writer
    Examiner Club Secretary

    Bio
  • Rick Weissbourd

    Senior Lecturer and Faculty Director, Making Caring Common

    Bio

Emeritus Members

Alfred Ajami
Marcia Angell
Bonnie Costello
David Ellis
Owen Gingerich
J. Brian Hehir
Emily Hiestand

Gerald Holton
Florence Ladd
Christopher Lydon
Rosanna Warren
Frederick Wiseman
Douglas Woodlock