Stephen Drury Smith is the executive editor and host of APM Reports^®, the acclaimed documentary unit of American Public Media. He is a co-editor (with Catherine Ellis) of Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews, Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches, and Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity and (with Mary Marshall Clark, Peter Bearman, and Catherine Ellis) of After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed, all published by The New Press. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.