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John is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and best-selling novelist who has worked for *The New York Times *for over 40 years. He began his career as a copy boy in 1966 and first worked as a reporter in New York, including a stint at City Hall during the mid-1970's fiscal crisis. His first foreign assignment was to West Africa, where he was based in Lagos, Nigeria. After 13 months he was thrown in jail and deported for articles unpleasing to the military government. His next assignment was in Nairobi, Kenya, where his coverage included the civil war in Rhodesia, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and the fall of Idi Amin in Uganda. John won the George Polk award for his work there. In 1979 he was based in Warsaw, Poland, where he covered the birth of the Solidarity movement and the imposition of martial law. He won the Polk award again and the Pulitzer Prize for dispatches smuggled out of the country to avoid censorship. His next assignment was in Spain where he covered the rise to power of the Socialist party. He returned to New York as deputy foreign editor and then became metropolitan editor and news editor/weekends, before taking up another stint abroad as London bureau chief. He returned from London in 1996 to become culture editor; a job he held for six years. He is now editorial director for Special Projects. He has published four novels. The first, *Neanderthal*,became an international best seller and was optioned by Steven Spielberg (the movie was never made). The second,*The Experiment*, was also a best seller. The third, *Mind Catcher*, like the first two, was a science-based adventure. His latest book is* The Darwin Conspiracy*, a work of historical fiction.

Jessica Stern is a Lecturer in Public Policy and a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law and holds a doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard. From 1994–1995, she served as Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, where she was responsible for national security policy toward Russia and the former Soviet states and for policies to reduce the threat of nuclear smuggling and terrorism. From 1998–1999, she was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and from 1995–1996, she was a national Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is the author of the *New York Times* Notable Book *Terror in the Name of God and The Ultimate Terrorists*, as well as numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. A 2009-2010 Guggenheim Fellow, she was selected by *Time magazine* in 2001 as one of the seven thinkers whose innovative ideas “will change the world.” In her latest work, *Denial: A Memoir of Terror*, Stern investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist, and in so doing, examines the horrors of trauma and denial. Naomi Wolf calls Denial “one of the most important books I have read in a decade… brave, life-changing, and as gripping as a thriller, this should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand terrorism and anyone who has survived trauma of any kind… A tour de force.”

David Kennedy is the Vice President for International Affairs, University Professor of Law and David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University. In addition he is the Manley O. Hudson Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Director of the European Law Research Center. He teaches international law, international economic policy, legal theory, law and development, and European law. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1981 after teaching in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in international affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a J.D. from Harvard. He is the author of numerous articles on international law, history and legal theory, and founder of the New Approaches to International Law project. Professor Kennedy's research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology and social theory, economics and history to explore issues of global governance, development policy and the nature of professional expertise. He is particularly interested in the politics of the transnational regime for economic policy making. Kennedy has been particularly committed to developing new voices from the third world and among women in international affairs. As a practicing lawyer and consultant, Prof. Kennedy has worked on numerous international projects, both commercial and public, including work with the United Nations, the Commission of the European Union, and with the private firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in Brussels. He has also advised a number of educational institutions on their law and graduate programs, including Brown University, the University of Quebec Lavalle and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Judith D. Hampton is an adjunct faculty member for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. Ms. Hampton holds a bachelor of science degree from Columbia University and a master's degree from Hunter College. She has over thirty years of experience as an entrepreneur, trainer, seminar leader, facilitator, and university teacher. Ms. Hampton is also a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and guest lecturer. Ms. Hampton is now president of Judi Hampton Public Relations, a full-service firm with clients that include major corporations, institutions, health-care organizations, universities, and government agencies. In this capacity, she designs and executes marketing, publicity, and communications programs for clients. Ms. Hampton serves as President of the Board of Directors of Blackside, Inc., which has produced *Eyes on the Prize* and other award-winning documentaries on American historical and social issues for public television.

Film producer and former SNCC activist Judy Richardson was born to autoworker William King Richardson and seamstress Mae Louise Tucker Richardson in Tarrytown, New York. Richardson grew up in the "under the hill" section of Tarrytown. Her father helped organize the United Auto Workers (UAW) local at the Chevrolet plant in Tarrytown and died "on the line" when she was seven years old. Richardson graduated from Sleepy Hollow High School in 1962 and was accepted to Swarthmore College on a full, four-year scholarship. Later, Richardson would also attend Columbia University, Howard University and Antioch College. In 1968, Richardson and other former SNCC staffers founded Drum and Spear Bookstore in Washington, D.C. It became the largest Black bookstore in the country. She was also Children's Editor of Drum & Spear Press. In 1970, she wrote an essay on racism in Black children's books, published by Howard University's *Journal of Negro Education*. In 1979, Richardson began working with Henry Hampton/Blackside Productions on an early version of what became the* Eyes On The Prize* series. Major production for that Academy Award-nominated, six-hour PBS series began in 1986, and she became researcher and content advisor. For *Eyes On The Prize II*, the subsequent eight-hour series, she was Series Associate Producer. Richardson later co-produced Blackside's 1994 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary, *Malcolm X: Make It Plain*. Currently a senior producer for Northern Light Productions in Boston, Richardson produces historical documentaries for broadcast and museums, with a focus on African American historical events, including: a one-hour documentary on the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre (South Carolina) for PBS; two History Channel documentaries on slavery and slave resistance; and installations for, among others, the National Park Service's Little Rock Nine Visitor's Center, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati), the New York State Historical Society's "Slavery in New York" exhibit, and the Paul Laurence Dunbar House (Dayton). Richardson has also edited, with five other SNCC women, *Hands on the Freedom Plow: The Personal Testimonies of Women in SNCC*. Richardson is the recipient of an Image Award for Vision and Excellence from Women in Film and Video. She lectures, writes and conducts professional development workshops for teachers about the history and values of the Civil Rights Movement and their relevance to issues we face today.

Jim Madigan joined WGBY/57 Public Television in December, 1990, serving first as Senior Producer for Public Affairs and now as Director of Public Affairs. He currently hosts two weekly programs -- *Doctors on Call*, a medical information and call-in program, and *The State We're In*, which focuses on Massachusetts politics as well as national and international affairs.

John S. Carroll retired as editor of the *Los Angeles Times* in July. The paper's managing editor, Dean P. Baquet, will succeed him. Carroll had been with the *Times* since 2000 and was praised as an editor with a broad and deep vision for the newspaper and for his support for aggressive, in-depth reporting. During his tenure as editor, the *Times* won 13 Pulitzer Prizes, the most successful stretch of the paper's 123-year history. And a series on the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, which provided care so poor that it put the health of some patients in danger, won the Gold Medal for Public Service this year from the Pulitzer board.

An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published more than 20 books, including the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful (Random House, 1970) and Sisterhood Is Global (Doubleday, l984; updated edition, The Feminist Press, 1996); with the recent Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for A New Millennium (Washington Square Press, Simon & Schuster, 2003). A founder/leader of contemporary US feminism, she has also been a leader in the international women's movement for 30 years. An invited speaker at every major university in North America, she has traveled--as organizer, lecturer, journalist--across Europe, to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa; she has twice (1986 and 1989) spent months in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on the conditions of women.