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Paul Wink received his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a Ph.D. in Personality Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Psychology at Wellesley College, and was a visiting faculty at the University of Michigan. Dr. Wink's research interests are in the area of adult development and aging broadly defined to include psychosocial functioning, and the interface between personality, life course transitions, and socio-historical context. His extensive research on narcissism focuses on the differences between healthy and pathological (overt and covert) narcissism. Wink is currently using these longitudinal data to examine the socio-biographical antecedents, life course trajectories, and social implications of religion and spirituality. Wink is currently writing on the relationship among religiousness, self-actualization, and the fear of death and the implications of adolescent generativity for physical and mental health in late adulthood. He is currently a recipient of a three year grant from the John Templeton Foundation awarded for research on the life-course development and psychosocial implications of religiousness and spirituality. Wink is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the Society for Personology.

Carol Rose is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. A lawyer and journalist, Carol has spent her career working for and writing about human rights and civil liberties, both in the United States and abroad including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan, Sri Lanka, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam. Prior to assuming her position at the helm of the Massachusetts ACLU in January 2003, she was an attorney at the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow, where she specialized in First Amendment and media law, intellectual property, civil rights, and international human rights law. While in private practice, Carol had the honor of serving as co-chair of Women in Communications Law of the ABA Forum on Communications Law, as a Vice Chair of the Human Rights committee of the ABA Individual Rights and Responsibilities section, and on the editorial board of the ABAs *Human Rights* magazine.

Dr. Farrell is an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminal Justice and the Associate Director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on disparity in the criminal justice system. Primary interests include racial and gender differences the administration of justice, discretionary decision making, and prosecution and sentencing practices. She has recently conducted research on local law enforcement responses to human trafficking and is currently leading the development of a national human trafficking data collection program for the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Dr. Farrell is a co-recipient of the National Institute of Justices W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship on crime justice and culture.

Renata von Tscharner is trained as an architect and city planner. She worked in Paris, London, and as Assistant City Planner in Bern, Switzerland, before moving to Cambridge where in 1979 she co-founded the Townscape Institute and in 2000 started the Charles River Conservancy. As Principal of The Townscape Institute, she directed projects and publications in urban design, public art, environmental education and advocacy as they pertained to increasing the livability of neighborhoods, towns, and cities. For the past 25 years, she has consulted and lectured both in the United States and in Europe. In 1997 she returned to the faculty of the Radcliffe Seminars teaching courses about the Charles River, and in 2000 she started the Charles River Conservancy (CRC). This advocacy group brings together organizations and individuals working to provide stewardship and renewal of the Charles River parklands, the 500 acres of state-owned riverfront from the Boston Harbor to the Watertown Dam. As president, she oversees all aspects of this organization which has a staff of 6 and over 8000 supporters and volunteers.