Juan Williams, is a journalist, author, and political commentator for NPR and Fox News. Williams was born in Colon, Panama, near the Canal Zone. His father, Roger, was a boxing trainer and his mother, Alma, a seamstress. He was raised in the Episcopal Church. When he was four years old his family—including older siblings Elena and Rogelio—moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. He then won a scholarship to attend Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, New York. He became president of the student body, editor of the student paper and was captain of the baseball, cross-country and championship basketball team. He then won a scholarship to Haverford College where he graduated with a B.A. in philosophy in 1976. Williams regularly appears on major radio and television programs, notably National Public Radio and the Fox News Channel. He also writes for leading newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in magazines including The Atlantic Monthly and Time. Williams has spoken at such major events as the Smithsonian’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision which ended legal segregation in public schools and was selected by the United States Census Bureauas moderator of its first program beginning its 2010 effort. He has received honorary doctorates from Lafayette College, Wittenberg University, and Long Island University, among other institutions. Williams was an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, White House correspondent and national correspondent during his 23 year career atThe Washington Post. He has won several awards for investigative journalism and his opinion columns. Juan Williams is truly a face of Brooklyn.