GFT Publishing - Scott Wallace

About the Author
Scott Wallace is the author of the best-selling book, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes (Crown, 2011), and a longtime contributor to National Geographic. From 1983 to 1989 he covered the armed conflicts in Central America for CBS News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Guardian, The Independent, and Newsweek. His articles have also appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Harper's, Interview, The Nation, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, his photographs in Details, The Economist, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and The Wall Street Journal, via Getty Images and the World Bank Photo Collection. His broadcast credits include CBS, CNN, FOX News, and the National Geographic Channel. He has been honored with the Explorers Club's Lowell Thomas Award for excellence in reporting from the field, and received awards from the Associated Press, Gannett Newspapers, Inter-American Press Association, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation, Society of American Travel Writers, and Society of Professional Journalists. Wallace is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut.

About the Contributor
Christopher J. Dodd was born in 1944 in Willimantic, Connecticut. He earned a B.A. in English literature from Providence College and received his J.D. from the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. From 1966 to 1968 he was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, and from 1969 to 1975 he served in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dodd is Connecticut's longest-serving member of Congress, having been a member of the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981 and then the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 2011. Upon retirement from the U.S. Senate in 2011, Senator Dodd became Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America and, in 2018, he joined the law firm of Arnold & Porter as a Senior Counsel. Senator Dodd also served as Special Advisor on the Americas to President Joseph R. Biden. He and his wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd, have two daughters and reside in East Haddam, Connecticut.