ABOUT YOUR TOUR LEADERS:

Nadine Epstein: Award-winning journalist Nadine Epstein is Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Moment Magazine, Founder and Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Center for Creative Change, Founder of the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative for young reporters and Founder and Editor of MomentBooks. She reported for the City News Bureau of Chicago and the Chicago Bureau of The New York Times, then later covered the US-Mexico border and rural America. After a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, she taught in the Masters Program in Journalism there. She holds degrees in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and was a University Fellow in the political science doctoral program at Columbia University. Epstein has written and edited books, including RBG's Brave and Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone, Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life and Legacy, contributed to anthology collections, including Racing in the Streets: the Bruce Springstreen Reader and The Late, Great Mexican Border: Reports from a Disapparing Line. She also cowrote the short documentary Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer. She is also an artist, the creator of the iShadow Project and cofounder of TheMomentGallery.

Diane M. Bolz: Diane is the Arts and Articles Editor at Moment Magazine, where she writes the "Visual Moment" column and edits a variety of articles, columns and online offerings. Before coming to Moment some ten years ago, Diane worked for the Smithsonian Magazine for more than 30 years, where, as a senior editor and arts editor, she commissioned, edited and wrote articles on the fine arts, architecture, performing arts, travel, popular culture and history. Over her years at Smithsonian, Diane also served as the Smithsonian Representative in a number of Smithsonian Journey trips; from China, Russia, Turkey and Southeast Asia to Italy, Portugal, England, Mexico and Guatemala. Before coming to Smithsonian, she worked in New York City for architects I.M. Pei and Richard Meier.

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