Maria Henson (’82) has served as a general assignment reporter, statehouse reporter, Washington correspondent, editorial writer, assistant managing editor and deputy editorial page editor from North Carolina to California and many states in between. She won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing and, while at The Sacramento Bee, edited the series about Yosemite National Park that won a 2005 Pulitzer Prize. In 2010, she returned to her alma mater where she oversees the Wake Forest Magazine and teaches Journalism. 

She will be inducted into the Wake Forest University Writers Hall of Fame in 2016.