Sally Cole was the Executive Director of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce from 2004 through 2021. During that time, Sally also wrote the Business News & Notes column for the Falls Church News-Press and penned a number of articles and commentaries about people, efforts, and events important to the Falls Church community for the paper. She also served on the Falls Church City Arts & Humanities Council, the Falls Church City Public Schools Business In Education Partnership Program, and various ad hoc task forces and committees. Sally has lived in Falls Church for more than 30 years.  

Michael retired (August 2025) as an attorney in the Federal government, serving for over three decades at the Departments of Agriculture and Transportation and, since 2000, the Federal Communications Commission, where he held various staff and senior level positions.  His work there focused on public safety and national security.  Since moving from New Mexico in the mid-1990s, he and his family have lived in, and been civically active in, Falls Church including leadership with Scouting America (formerly BSA), as board member and president of the Village Preservation and Improvement Society (VPIS), and with sports and church activities. He is a graduate of the University of California (Berkeley, A.B., and Santa Barbara, M.A., History), and the University of New Mexico (J.D.)

Mike Hume is an award-winning editor that has worked in journalism for more than 20 years. With stints at National Geographic Traveler, ESPN and The Washington Post, Mike has helped launch numerous successful properties, including the games Keyword and On The Record, as well as The Post's video game coverage vertical. He currently works as a Senior Managing Editor at the New York Times-owned sports site, The Athletic. In addition to his work with The Athletic, Mike maintains a Substack covering audience trends in media and in 2024 founded Launcher LLC, a consulting company that works with media outlets to drive digital innovation and new audiences. Mike's journalism career first took root at The Falls Church News-Press in Falls Church, Va., where he worked as Sports Editor and also contributed to the paper's entertainment and community coverage.

Tamara is NPR’s senior White House correspondent and served as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2022/23. While in high school, she got her start in journalism at her local newspaper, the Hanford Sentinel in Hanford, CA. She also serves on the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, her alma mater. She and her family have lived in Falls Church since 2015.

Andrew is a land use and zoning attorney with Walsh Colucci, where he focuses on securing zoning entitlements across Northern Virginia, including in the City of Falls Church, Arlington County, and Fairfax County.

Andrew previously worked for two members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, the County Administrator of Caroline County, Virginia, and former Virginia Governor (now U.S. Senator) Mark Warner. He has spent much time traveling and writing about the region’s land development history, and has previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond and the University of Mary Washington. He is also the author of a 2018 book chronicling the history of the Virginia wine industry, Virginia Wine: Four Centuries of Change, published by George Mason University Press and distributed by the University of Virginia Press.

Andrew serves on the Board of Directors of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, the Mary Riley Styles Library Foundation, the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association, the Washington Airports Task Force, and is the Chairman of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Committee and the Fairfax County Agricultural and Forestal District Advisory Committee.

Adam currently manages marketing and communications for the National Contract Management Association. He formerly held federal civilian positions in communications, public affairs and project management. Prior to joining federal service, Adam worked as a journalist for newspapers and later in advertising and public relations agencies. Adam maintains a Project Management Professional credential and is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and Miami University of Ohio. Active in his community, he serves on the board of the Falls Church Kiwanis Little League and coaches several youth sports. Adam and his family reside in Falls Church.

Marty manages the Congressional Research Service’s Banking, Insurance, Securities and Macroeconomic policy section. Part of the Library of Congress, CRS provides authoritative, confidential, objective and nonpartisan analysis to committees and Members of both the House and the Senate, regardless of party affiliation. He has been at CRS since 2002. He previously covered international economic issues for CRS. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware and Columbia University.


Marty and his family have been Falls Church residents since 2008 and he was a longstanding cub master and assistant scoutmaster for Scouting USA’s Troop 657. He tried to be an assistant soccer coach but was fired for being generally useless at sporting activities (and reading the newspaper while he should have been running drills).