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Professor Blair Condoll, J.D., is a New Orleans native, legal scholar, author, military veteran, and media personality whose work bridges public service, civic education, law, politics, and culture. Born and raised in New Orleans’ historic Seventh Ward, he is a graduate of St. Augustine High School, Xavier University of Louisiana, and the Southern University Law Center, where he earned his Juris Doctor.

Professor Condoll currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dillard University. His teaching portfolio includes American Government, State and Local Politics, Comparative Politics, Constitutional Law, and International Relations. Through his scholarship and instruction, he helps students connect the institutions of government and law to the issues shaping their communities and the wider world.

His publications include : “Extending Constitutional Protection to Viable Fetuses: A Woman’s Right to Privacy”; Southern University Law Review, “The Limits of Free Speech and the Dangers of Violence and Insurrection” The Advocate; “Boys in the Hood” in Black Source Media; and “Will Black People Ever Overcome,” among other works. Beyond the classroom, Professor Condoll co-hosts the weekly podcast “Married to the Conversation,” where he brings an informed and engaging perspective to discussions of politics, health, money, faith, family, and culture. His commentary combines professional experience, academic insight, and the authentic voice of a lifelong New Orleanian.

Professor Condoll also served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army Reserve and is a veteran of the Gulf War. He is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club. Across each of these roles, he remains committed to education, service, leadership, and meaningful public conversation.

Len Apcar holds the Wendell Gray Switzer Jr. Endowed Chair in Media Literacy, is a fellow at the Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs and is a Professional-in-Residence. His teaching interests include how people can evaluate both media sources and information so they can fully participate in our representative democracy. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he taught digital media courses.

In a nearly 40-year professional career at The New York Times and at the Wall Street Journal, he has been a reporter, Web editor, Washington editor and Asia editor. As editor of nytimes.com, the site won virtually every major online award for news, opinion and photography.

As chief Asia editor based in Hong Kong he helped create a 24-hour global newsroom for online and print. At the Journal he was a reporter in Detroit, Washington and Dallas.

He holds an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in political science from Claremont McKenna College in California.