Chad Konecky, Writer
Chad Konecky is an internationally published journalist with 10,000 bylines throughout a twenty-five-year career. His portfolio includes on-air duties for SportsChannel’s coverage of the NFL and a half-decade at ESPN. Based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he is a full-time consultant for USA TODAY. In “It Takes Two,” he profiles antipodal CNN legal analysts Mel Robbins ’94 and Paul Callan’75.
Kate Wolkoff, Photographer
Brooklyn photographer Katherine Wolkoff’s editorial work includes assignments for the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, Real Simple, New York, the New Yorker, Time, and Travel and Leisure. While photographing the cover story at CNN (“The Odd Couple”), she says she was “struck by how the anchor desk was right in the middle of the newsroom. It was a very hushed environment with intense energy running throughout.”
Joe Ciardiello, Illustrator
Joe Ciardiello has been a freelance illustrator for more than forty years. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and the Wall Street Journal. Among his awards are five medals from the Society of Illustrators. He enjoys having the opportunity to create portraits of BC Law faculty members (“Asking the Deeper Questions”).
Charles B. Fancher Jr., Writer
Charles B. Fancher Jr. has been a writer and editor on the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit Free Press, a corporate communications executive, and a lecturer in the School of Communications at Howard University. In his profile of Taisha Sturdivant ’16 (‘“God Bless the Child That’s Got Her Own’”) he finds an affecting story of how intellect, fierce determination, and grace changed her life and those of everyone else she’s met.