A father who was a mentor

A tireless campaigner for human rights, Hanan Ashrawi has distinguished herself in both the academic and political arenas. Her academic expertise has played a vital role in the development and recognition of Palestinian culture, while her longstanding political activism on behalf of the Palestinian people has contributed greatly to the establishment of an independent and self-governing Palestine.

An extraordinary mother

A career public servant, Anson Chan is the Chief Secretary of the Hong Kong government. In that position she is a principal advisor to the Chief Executive, and head of Hong Kong's 190,000-member civil service. Dr. Chan is the first woman, and the first person of Chinese ancestry, to hold that position.

The inspiration of Dr. Martin Luther King

For more than twenty-seven years Ronald Dellums was a congressman from California's Ninth Congressional District. In representing his district, Congressman Dellums brought to Washington the spirit and ideas of the sixties movements and earned the admiration and respect of his Washington colleagues as well.

The courage of draft resistors

An activist and strategic analyst, Daniel Ellsberg was a key figure in the public protest to halt the Vietnam War. His leaking of the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times set in motion a series of events, including illegal actions by then-President Richard Nixon that led the president to resign his office rather than be impeached.

Grandfather's influence

Photographer, writer, and educator Wendy Ewald travels the world teaching photography to children with the aim of empowering them to see more clearly and to tell their stories to the world. Her books include Appalachian Women: Three Generations; Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians; Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Childhood; and I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket: The Story of an Indian Village.

| Alexander Bickel and judicial restraint
| The "heroic mind" of Thurgood Marshall

James O. Freedman is the President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as president of Dartmouth College and as president of the University of Iowa. His publications include Crises and Legitimacy: The Administrative Process and American Government and Idealism and Liberal Education.

Liberalism's greatest leader

John Kenneth Galbraith was Professor of Economics at Harvard for more than 50 years, and a writer and author of more than 20 books, including The New Industrial State and The Affluent Society. He was editor at Fortune magazine, advisor to President Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to India during the Kennedy Administration, and a leader in the antiwar movement during the Vietnam War.

Principles, values, and courage of Chief Justice Earl Warren

Ira Michael Heyman was Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1980 to 1990; Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior, 1993 to 1994; and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 1999. He is an Emeritus Professor of Law and of City and Regional Plannning at UC Berkeley.

The influence of Professor Ken Waltz

Josef Joffe is a German journalist and prominent international relations scholar. He is co-editor of the German periodical Die Zeit, and has taught political science at Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.

The humility of Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu

Ahmed Kathrada is a leading political figure in South Africa. Mr. Kathrada began his involvement in the struggle against apartheid as a youth leader of the South African Indian community. He became a core member of the ANC, was convicted in the famed Rivonia trial, and served 26 years in prison with President Mandela.

Learning from Stewart Udall

Admiral Charles Larson is a former superintendent of the United States Naval Academy and former commander of the U.S. Pacific command (CINCPAC). As the senior U.S. military commander in the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas, he led the largest unified command, directing Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force operations across one hundred and three million square miles. He was both a naval aviator and a nuclear submarine commander.

Feet of clay and the need for heroes

Abner Jay Mikva served as White House Counsel from October 1, 1984, until November 1, 1993. Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit. He served in Congress for five terms, representing portions of Chicago and its suburbs.

A professor's advice to "think sideways"

Norman Myers is an environmental scientist who has been called the Paul Revere of the environmental movement. He has published more than 250 papers in professional journals, 300 popular articles in newspapers and magazines, and 15 books with sales of one million copies in 11 languages, and is the originator of the biodiversity hot-spot strategy.

| An important teacher in high school
| First political mentor: Tom Kuchel

Leon Panetta was a US Representative from California's 16th District, now the 17th, from 1977 to 1993. From 1989 to 1993 he was Chairman of the House Budget Committee. After serving eight terms in Congress, in 1993 he became Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration.

| The examples of Gandhi and the suffragettes
| His mother and father

Albie Sachs was a leader in the struggle for human rights in South Africa and a freedom fighter in the African National Congress. He has written numerous books on issues of gender, the law, and human rights, and most recently published a new edition of The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter, an account of his recovery from an assassination attempt by South African security forces. He now serves on the South African Constitutional Court.

| Mrs. Winreib and the nuns
| Hortense Powdermaker (1)
| Hortense Powdermaker (2)

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also directs the Doctoral Program in Critical Studies of Medicine, Science, and the Body. Her many publications include Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics and Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil.

The ideas and attraction of Alexander Meicklejohn

Joseph Tussman is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and former chairman of the Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. His publications include Obligation and the Body Politic, Government and the Mind, The Burden of Office, and The Beleaguered College.

| A deep admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt and Ralph Bunche
| Inspired by Dag Hammarskjöld

Sir Brian Urquhart is former Undersecretary General of the United Nations. Since 1946, Sir Brian's professional life has been, in many respects, a history of the UN itself; since his retirement in 1986, he has become the central figure in the dialogue over renewing the United Nations system.