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Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for *Commentary*, has been a columnist and a member of *the Chicago Tribune*'s editorial board since 1984. His column is syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services. His articles have been published in *Chicago Magazine*, *The Chicago Reader*, *Washington Monthly*, *New Republic*, *The Wall Street Journal*, *New York Newsday*, and *Emerge*. He has appeared as a guest on ABC's *Nightline*, *The Today Show*, and *Sunday Morning with David Brinkley*. Page is also an occasional guest panelist on *The McLaughlin Group*, a regular contributor of essays to *News Hour with Jim Lehrer*, and an occasional host of documentaries on PBS. Page's awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI award for community service for an investigative series entitled *The Black Tax *and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting of a 1976 series on the changing politics of Southern Africa . Page also participated in a 1972 *Chicago Tribune* Task Force series on vote fraud which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has received awards from the Illinois and Wisconsin chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union for his columns on civil liberties and constitutional rights. He was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 1992. Page received his Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Ohio University in 1969, where he was the commencement speaker in 1993. He has received honorary doctorates from Columbia College in Chicago , Lake Forest College , and Nazareth College in Rochester.

Yo-Yo Ma attended Juilliard School. He sought out a traditional liberal arts education to expand upon his conservatory training, graduating from Harvard University in 1976. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize (1978), the Glenn Gould Prize (1999), the National Medal of the Arts (2001), the Dan David Prize (2006), the Sonning Prize (2006), and the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (2008). Appointed a CultureConnect Ambassador by the United States Department of State in 2002, Yo-Yo Ma has met with, trained and mentored thousands of students worldwide including Lithuania, Korea, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and China. He has performed with and conducted master classes for members of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, Secretary General Kofi Annan named him a UN Messenger of Peace and in 2007 Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon extended his appointment. Yo-Yo Ma is strongly committed to educational programs that not only bring young audiences into contact with music but also allow them to participate in its creation. He has also reached young audiences through appearances on *Arthur*, *Mister Rogers' Neighborhood* and *Sesame Street*.

Dr. Forman's main research interests are in the social uses of popular music and the critical analysis of media industries, cultural production, and communication. His work also engages with issues of media and representation in contemporary society, with particular emphasis on images and discourses pertaining to race and ethnicity and issues of youth, elders, and age in society. He is the author of *The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop* (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) and co-editor, with Mark Anthony Neal, of *'That's the Joint!': The Hip-Hop Studies Reader* (Routledge, 2004), as well as authoring numerous articles on youth, race, popular music, television, and film. Dr. Forman serves on the advisory board of the Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University) as well as serving on editorial advisory boards of several scholarly journals.

Robert Schulmann, a former Boston University history professor, is former head of the Einstein Papers Project. He coedited *Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters and* many volumes of *The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein*.

Richard D. Grundy has been chief trial counsel and head of the homicide unit in the Norfolk district attorney's office.

Joan Lukey is a partner in the litigation department at Ropes & Gray focusing on complex business litigation. Since 1983, Joan has been selected by her peers for each edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of business, bet-the-company, commercial and personal injury litigation, labor and employment and First Amendment law. Joan is the president-elect of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, the first woman ever to hold this position. A highly regarded trial attorney, Joan has tried more than 70 federal and state cases, predominantly to juries. She is an experienced appellate advocate, having argued approximately 15 cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and approximately 40 cases before state appellate courts in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. An accomplished writer, Joan's OpEd pieces have appeared in *The Washington Post* and *The Boston Globe*. She is the author of the chapter "Employment Litigation" in the ABA's Business and Commercial Litigation in the Federal Courts. She is a co-editor and co-author of the treatise *Federal Litigation in the First Circuit*. A past president of the Boston Bar Association (2000-2001), Joan has received repeated recognition from her peers, including election in 1991 to the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only organization drawn from the best of the trial bar. In 2000, she was also elected to fellowship in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. A wife and mother, she is active in several community and professional organizations, including service as an overseer of her law school and as a trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation.