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Joe Trippi, heralded on the cover of *The New Republic* as the man who reinvented campaigning, was born in California and began his political career working on Edward M. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1980. His work in presidential politics continued with the campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt and Howard Dean. As a campaign manager, Trippi has run presidential, Senate, gubernatorial and mayoral campaigns. He was selected by former Vice President Walter Mondale to manage Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses in 1984 and later went on to run several key states for the Mondale for President campaign. In 1988, Trippi was the Deputy National Campaign Manager for Richard Gephardt's presidential campaign. In 2004, he was National Campaign Manager for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, pioneering the use of online technology to organize what became the largest grassroots movement in presidential politics. Through Trippi's innovative use of the internet for small-donor fundraising, Dean for America ended up raising more money than any Democratic presidential campaign in history, all with donations averaging less than $100 each. Trippi's innovations have brought fundamental change to the electoral system and will be the model for how all future political campaigns are run. Joe Trippi has been profiled in *GQ*, *Wired*, *Fast Company*, *The New Republic* and *The New York Times Magazine*. He is an MSNBC political analyst and former Harvard University fellow. He currently heads the Washington, DC political consultancy, Trippi & Associates. In addition Trippi is the author of, *The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything*, the story of how his revolutionary use of the Internet and an impassioned, contagious desire to overthrow politics as usual grew into a national grassroots movement and changed the face of politics, and indeed many aspects of American life, forever.

A professor of history at Indiana University in Bloomington, George E. Brooks is the author of *Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630*, and numerous studies in African and world history.

David Eltis is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History, Emory University. His research interests are the early modern Atlantic World, slavery, and migration - both coerced and free. He is the author of *Economic Growth* and *The Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade* (New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1987) which won the British Trevor Reese Memorial Prize, and *The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas* (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000), awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize, the John Ben Snow Prize, and the Wesley-Logan Prize. He is editor and contributor to *Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives* (Stanford University Press, 2002). He is currently at work on a census of the Atlantic slave trade, a book on slave ship revolts, an analysis of the identity of captive Africans put on board slave ships, and is co-editing the *Cambridge World History of Slavery*.

Patrick Manning is a professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also president of the World History Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation fostering research in world history. As a specialist in world history and African history, his current research addresses global historiography, early human history, migration in world history, the African diaspora, and the demography of African slavery. Manning was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a BS Chemistry in 1963 and at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he received a MS in History and Economics and a PhD in History in 1969. He was trained as a specialist in the economic history of Africa and went on to explore demographic, social, and cultural patterns in Africa and the African diaspora. Patrick Manning taught at Northeastern University from 1984-2006, where he directed the World Victory Center and twelve PhD students in world history. He also served as vice president of the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association from 2004-2006.

Esmeralda Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She came to the United States at thirteen, the eldest in a family that would eventually include eleven children. Ms. Santiago attended New York City's Performing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance. After eight years of part-time study at community colleges, she transferred to Harvard University with a full scholarship. She graduated magna cum laude in 1976. In 1977, she and her husband, Frank Cantor, founded CANTOMEDIA, a film and media production company, which has won numerous awards for excellence in documentary filmmaking. Her writing career evolved from her work as a producer/writer of documentary and educational films. Her essays and opinion pieces have run in newspapers like the *New York Times* and the *Boston Globe*, in magazines like* House & Garden*, *Metropolitan Home*, and *Sports Illustrated*, and as guest commentary on NPR's *All Things Considered* and *Morning Edition*. Upon publication of her first book, the memoir *When I was Puerto Rican*, Ms. Santiago was hailed as a welcome new voice, full of passion and authority, by the *Washington Post Book World*. Her first novel, *America's Dream*, was published in six languages, and was an Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild. Her second memoir, *Almost a Woman*, received numerous Best of Year mentions, in addition to an Alex Award from the American Library Association. Her adaptation of the memoir into a film for PBS Masterpiece Theatre, was greeted with critical and audience acclaim and was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. Her third memoir, *The Turkish Lover*, has received enthusiastic reviews as an earthy, heartfelt tale of liberation, desperation, and the crippling grip of love. She is also the author of the illustrated children's book, *A Doll for Navidades*. In addition to her literary endeavors, Ms. Santiago is an active volunteer. She is a spokesperson on behalf of public libraries. She has designed and developed community-based programs for adolescents, and was one of the founders of a shelter for battered women and their children. She serves on the boards of organizations devoted to the arts and to literature, and speaks vehemently about the need to encourage and support the artistic development of young people. Her community activism was cited when she received a Girl Scouts of America National Woman of Distinction Award in March 2002 along with Alma Powell and Elizabeth Dole.

Graham Allison is Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. As "Founding Dean" of the modern Kennedy School, under his leadership, from 1977 to 1989, a small, undefined program grew twenty-fold to become a major professional school of public policy and government. Dr. Allison has served as Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Reagan. He has the sole distinction of having twice been awarded the Department of Defense's highest civilian award, the Distinguished Public Service Medal, first by Secretary Cap Weinberger and second by Secretary Bill Perry. He served as a member of the Defense Policy Board for Secretaries Weinberger, Carlucci, Cheney, Aspin, Perry and Cohen. Dr. Allison's first book, *Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis* (1971), was released in an updated and revised second edition (1999) andranks among the bestsellers in 20th century political science with more than 400,000 copies in print. His latest book, *Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe*, is now in its third printing, and was selected by the New York Times as one of the "100 most notable books of 2004."

Stephanie Schorow is a long-time Boston-area reporter and writer. She worked 12 years for the *Boston Herald* as a writer and editor and for three years as a *Boston Globe* freelancer. Her articles have appeared in the *Boston Globe* magazine, the *Harvard Gazette*, *MIT's Tech Talk*, *Bark* magazine and other publications. She also writes and takes photographs for travel features.

Jason DeParle is a senior writer at *The New York Times* and a frequent contributor to *The New York Times Magazine*. A graduate of Duke University, DeParle won a George Polk Award in 1999 for his reporting on the welfare system and was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Nancy-Ann, and their two sons.