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Amy Walter
The Beatrice and Randolph Guthrie Lecture
For more than 25 years, Amy Walter has built a reputation as an accurate, objective, and insightful political analyst with unparalleled access to campaign insiders and decision-makers. One of Washington’s “Most Powerful Women” in 2023 & 2021, she is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, where she provides analysis of the issues, trends and events that shape the political environment.
As a contributor to the PBS “NewsHour” she provides weekly political analysis for the popular Politics Monday segment and is a featured contributor to their Election and Convention special coverage events. She is also a regular Sunday panelist on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CNN’s “Inside Politics” and appears frequently on “Special Report with Bret Baier” on Fox News Channel. From 2017 until early 2021, Walter was the host of the weekly nationally syndicated program “Politics with Amy Walter” on The Takeaway from WNYC and PRX. She’s also the former political director of ABC News.
Amy was an inaugural fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, where she now serves on the Board of Advisors. She serves as a Trustee of Colby College, where she graduated summa cum laude and was awarded an honorary degree as a Doctor of Letters.
Bea Guthrie is a graduate of Smith College Summa cum Laude majoring in Fine Arts. She and Bob married in 1965. She served as Patron Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera and member of the Executive Committee and then moved to Save Venice as Executive Director where she was principally responsible for its rebirth and success. She and Bob are parents of two sons and four grandchildren. Bob Guthrie is an alumnus of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School and trained at Cornell Medical Center. He is Board Certified in General Surgery and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. He served as Chief of the latter at Memorial Sloan Kettering, as Full Attending Surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Full Professor at Cornell Weill College of Medicine. For 25 years, he was the Chairman of Save Venice and is now the Chairman of The Society of the Four Arts.