Nancy Weaver Teichert is a national award winning investigative journalist for 30 years. Her reporting on inadequate public schools garnered the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the Jackson, MS, Clarion-Ledger. At the Denver Post and Sacramento Bee, she exposed public corruption, racism, poverty, elder abuse, and the deaths of children under county care which culminated in a six year legal battle to make public the circumstances of their deaths. An active community volunteer, she is a former board member of the public television KVIE, a mentor for 40 years for a young girl she met through Big Brothers and Big Sisters, a supporter of the Boys and Girls Club, and a member of the Rotary Club of Sacramento. Her husband, Fred, created a scholarship in her name for local students who want to become investigative reporters. A board member for the Community since 2013, she now writes historical and creative nonfiction.