Geoffrey Cowan, a University Professor and the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at USC, directs the Center on Communication Leadership. A former dean of the Annenberg School, in 2007 he was elected the Walter Lippman Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Before coming to USC, Cowan served under President Clinton as director of the Voice of America. He has served on the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, chaired the Los Angeles commission that drafted the city’s ethics and campaign finance law, and chaired the California Bipartisan Commission on Internet Political Practices. His books include See No Evil: The Backstage Battle over Sex and Violence on Television and The People v. Clarence Darrow: The Bribery Trial of America’s Greatest Lawyer. With Leroy Aarons, he cowrote Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, which toured twenty-five cities last year and is scheduled for a production in New York in the spring of 2009.