Nancy Gibbs Quote

On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

Nancy Gibbs

On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

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About Nancy Gibbs

Nancy Reid Gibbs (born January 25, 1960) is an American essayist, speaker, and presidential historian.
She is the former managing editor for TIME magazine, an author, and commentator on politics and values in the United States. She is the co-author, with Michael Duffy, of The New York Times Bestsellers The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House (2007) and The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity (2012).
Gibbs currently serves as the Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the Visiting Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy, teaching Politics of the Press and Op-ed Writing.