Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar (born 1945) is an American journalist, author, and the inaugural director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. He was the tenth president of Goucher College and the 24th director of Voice of America. Early life and education Ungar was born in 1945, the youngest of five children. His mother, Tillie Landau, born 1901 in Chrenif, a small village near Lviv, Ukraine, (then the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia) to a Jewish family; in 1908, the seven year-old Tillie immigrated with her family to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to escape the poverty of her shtetl. His father, Max Ungar, born 1895 in Tussa, Kingdom of Hungary (now Tušice, Slovakia) to a Jewish family; around 1910, the 15-year-old Max immigrated to the United States where he served in World War I and later opened a grocery store. Ungar was raised in Kingston, Pennsylvania where he attended Kingston High School. Several members of Ungar's family were killed in the Holocaust. As a child, Ungar was frightened by the stories told by several of his cousins who were Holocaust survivors. Ungar obtained a bachelor's degree in Government magna cum laude from Harvard College and a master's degree in international history from the London School of Economics, where he was a Rotary Foundation fellow. Career Upon completing graduate school, Ungar lived outside of the United States for three years. He initially intended to become a lawyer before becoming interested in "international opportunities." During his time abroad, he was a correspondent for United Press International in Paris and for Newsweek in Nairobi. Upon returning to the United States, Ungar began work as a print journalist for The Washington Post. He also wrote for The Atlantic and The Economist before working in an editorial position for the Foreign Policy. In 1975, he published FBI: An Uncensored Look Behind the Walls. From 1980 to 1982, he was the weekday host of NPR's All Things Considered. He has also appeared on public, commercial, and cable television, as a commentator or as the moderator of debates. In 1985, Ungar published Estrangement: America and the World, a collection of essays he edited while a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ungar has spoken frequently around the United States and in other countries on issues of American foreign policy and domestic politics, free expression, human rights, and immigration. From 1986 until 1999, he was Dean of