Rick Bragg
(Keynote Speaker)

won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996 and has received over 50 other writing awards including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award and a Harvard University Nieman Fellowship. He's the author of All Over but the Shoutin', Somebody Told Me, Ava's Man, and I Am a Soldier, Too which details the attack, capture, injuries, and imprisonment of Private First Class Jessica Lynch.