Florence George Graves is founding director of The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, the first independent reporting center based at a university. Her work focuses on revealing abuses of government and corporate power and inequities between the powerful and the powerless. She was the lead reporter in a six-month collaboration between the Institute and The Washington Post, for a 2006 investigation which revealed that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had failed to probe allegations—as federal regulations required—that thousands of unapproved parts manufactured from 1994 to 2002 were installed on Boeing jets. In a1992 collaboration with the The Washington Post, she and a colleague broke the Senator Bob Packwood sexual misconduct story, leading to an historic three-year Senate investigation, a Supreme Court battle, a threat to expel him and finally his forced resignation. Graves has received fellowships and awards from the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Harvard’s Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Pope Foundation, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. She founded the Washington D.C. based award-winning and nationally circulated muckraking journal, Common Cause Magazine. Her has work led to congressional hearings and to reforms in public policies, and has received major awards including the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the highest award given in magazine journalism.