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Patricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia, and later taught in Norfolk, Virginia, and New York City. She has also served as a high-school guidance counselor. She has been a lecturer and assistant professor at Indiana University, a visiting professor at Northern Michigan University, and a professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1972-73 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She has served as dean of the Radcliffe Institute and as vice president of Radcliffe College. She joined the Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty in 1974 and served as dean from 1982 to 1991. She served as president of the Spencer Foundation in Chicago from 1991 to 2000. Graham holds a bachelor's degree with highest distinction from Purdue University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and she has received several honorary degrees.

Joao Magueijo studied physics at the University of Lisbon. He undertook graduate work and PhD at Cambridge University. He was awarded a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, the same fellowship previously held by Paul Dirac and Abdus Salam. He has been a faculty member at Princeton and Cambridge, and is currently a professor at Imperial College London where he teaches undergraduates "General Relativity" and postgraduates "Advanced General Relativity". In 1998, Magueijo teamed with Andreas Albrecht to work on the varying speed of light (VSL) theory of cosmology, which proposes that the speed of light was much higher in the early universe, of 60 orders of magnitude faster than its present value. This would to explain the horizon problem (since distant regions of the expanding universe would have had time to interact and homogenize their properties), and is presented as an alternative to the more mainstream theory of cosmic inflation. Magueijo discusses his personal struggles pursuing VSL in his 2003 book, *Faster Than The Speed of Light, The Story of a Scientific Speculation*. He is also the host of the Science Channel series, *Joao Magueijo's Big Bang*, which premiered on May 13, 2008.

Gary Horowitz is a Professor of Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and continued on his postdoctoral research at UCSB and mathematical Institute at Oxford. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced study at Princeton before joining the faculty at UCSB. Professor Horowitz is a leading expert on gravitational physics. His research is mostly focused on questions involving gravity under the most extreme conditions. These include the big bang in cosmology and the spacetime inside black holes. His research also involves gravitational aspects of string theory including black holes in higher dimensions, quantum properties of black holes, and especially quantum descriptions of singularities.

Robin Young brings over 25 years of eclectic broadcast experience to her role as host of *Here and Now*. She is both a Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker and the past host of a cooking game show. She's been a correspondent for the Discovery Channel, CBS, ABC, and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for the *Today Show* on NBC. Robin may be best known to the Boston audience for her part in launching the popular *Evening Magazine* on WBZ-TV in the mid-70s, and for her television profiles on WNEV-TV in the mid-80's. For the past decade she's also been producing and directing documentaries, including *the Los Altos Story*, a groundbreaking look at the effect of AIDS on a Rotary Club in California, which won both the George Foster Peabody and Cable Ace awards. She's won numerous industry awards, including 5 Emmy awards for reporting, hosting, and producing.

Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of *Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture*, which began in 1996 as an all-volunteer zine with a circulation of three hundred and is now an internationally distributed quarterly magazine with a circulation of more than fifty thousand. Andi's writing on feminism, popular culture, and politics has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including *Ms.*, *Mother Jones*, *Utne*, *BUST*, *the Washington Post*, *the San Francisco Chronicle*, *the Women's Review of Books*, and *Hues*. Andi speaks on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities around the country, and is a frequent guest on radio talk shows. Along with Bitch co-founder Lisa Jervis, she edited *BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine*. A New Yorker by birth and temperament, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and dog.

Lynn Peril writes, edits and publishes Mystery Date: One Gal's Guide to Good Stuff, a 'zine devoted to her obsession with used books, particularly old sex and dating manuals and other detritus of popular culture. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer, Peril's column, "The Museum of Femoribilia", appears in Bust magazine. Her essays and reviews have appeared in London's Guardian newspaper, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Hermenaut, among other publications.

Margaret Price is assistant professor of writing at Spelman College. Her poetry, articles, and essays have appeared in Breath and Shadow, Wordgathering, College Composition and Communication, Across the Disciplines, and Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. She is at work on a book about psychosocial disability and academic discourse.

Myra MacPherson is the author of the award winning biography *All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone*. Her three previous books include the Vietnam classic *Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation*. She was a long time political writer for the *Washington Post*, has written for the *New York Times*, numerous magazines and blogs.

Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of *The Perfect Storm*, *A Death in Belmont* and *Fire*. He is a contributing editor to *Vanity Fair*, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York City.