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Ellen Goodman is a professor at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, specializing in information law and policy. Professor Goodman's scholarship probes the appropriate role of government policy, markets, and social norms in supporting a robust information environment. She has focused recently on the future of public media and recently authored a book chapter entitled Public Service Media 2.0. This and recent law review articles are available at ssrn.com. Professor Goodman has spoken before a wide range of audiences around the world, has consulted with the US government on communications policy, and has served as an advisor to President Obama's presidential campaign and transition team. She is a Research Fellow at American University's Center for Social Media, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications, and has visited at Penn's Wharton School of Business and Law School. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2003, Professor Goodman was a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, where she practiced in the information technology area. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Professor Goodman was a law clerk for Judge Norma Shapiro on the federal court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She lives near Philadelphia with her husband and three children.

Benedict J. Fernandez was born on April 5, 1936 in New York City, in the Hispanic neighborhood of East Harlem. Alexey Brodovitch, the legendary art director and graphic designer, invited him to enroll in his Design Laboratory and became Fernandez's most influential mentor. Brodovitch arranged for Ben to become the darkroom tech and manager at Parsons School of Design. Nobody could have imagined in those very early days what a significant role Ben would eventually play at Parsons. With Brodovitch's encouragement Ben went on to found the Photo Film Workshop, in the basement of Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. The Photo Film Workshop taught photography to ghetto youth, free of charge. Many of the workshop participants went on to successful careers and lives.

Melvyn P. Leffler, faculty associate in the Governing America in a Global Era Program, is Edward R. Stettinius professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. He served as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at University of Virginia from 1997-2001. In 1993 he won the Bancroft Prize for *A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War* (1992) and, in 2008, won the George Louis Beer Prize for his book, *For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War* (Hill & Wang, 2007). Leffler served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense during the Carter administration, where he worked on arms control and contingency planning as a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1993, and is the author of several articles and essays seeking to put contemporary developments after 9/11 in historical perspective.

Charles Payne is the Frank P. Hixon Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, where is he also an affiliate of the Center for Urban School Improvement. His interests include urban education and school reform, social inequality, social change and modern African American history. He is the author of Getting What We Ask For: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure In Urban Education (1984) and I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (1995). The latter has won awards from the Southern Regional Council, Choice Magazine, the Simon Wisenthal Center and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America. Payne has taught at Southern University, Williams College, Northwestern University and Duke University. He has won several teaching awards and at Northwestern, he held the Charles Deering McCormick Chair for Teaching Excellence and at Duke, the Sally Dalton Robinson Chair for excellence in teaching and research. Payne holds a bachelor's degree in Afro-American studies from Syracuse University and a doctorate in sociology from Northwestern.

Professor Ancheta's teaching and research focuses on constitutional law, civil rights, racial discrimination, and immigrants' rights. Prior to his academic career, he was a legal services and civil rights attorney, and specialized in immigration law and appellate advocacy. From 1994 to 1998, he was the executive director of the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, and was previously a staff attorney at nonprofit legal services organizations in both Northern and Southern California.

Mitchell J. Chang is Professor of Higher Education and Organizational Change at the University of California, Los Angeles and also holds a joint appointment in the Asian American Studies Department. He previously worked as an Associate Dean at Loyola Marymount University and school evaluator at Alum Rock Union Elementary School District in San Jose, California. Chang's research focuses on the educational efficacy of diversity-related initiatives on college campuses and how to apply those best practices toward advancing student learning and democratizing institutions. He has written over fifty articles and book chapters, and has served on several editorial boards, including The Review of Higher Education, Liberal Education, Equity & Excellence, and Amerasia. He also served as the lead editor of Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education (with D. Witt, J. Jones, & K. Hakuta, 2003: Stanford University Press).

Senior Vice President Marc Cutler is the manager of the Cambridge Systematics's Travel Demand Forecasting business line. Mr. Cutler specializes in managing large multimodal transportation planning and policy projects. He has managed numerous studies in transportation planning, traffic engineering, traffic management, and travel demand modeling and forecasting. Mr. Cutler recently has led several large studies for the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation. For the Georgia Department of Transportation, he led both the Interstate Highway System Plan and the Statewide Transportation Plan. Additionally, he served as manager of transportation planning for the Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston, and conducted numerous development-related traffic studies throughout Boston. Mr. Cutler received a Master's degree in Urban Planning from Tufts University, a Master's degree in Education from Harvard University, and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Tufts University.

Gray was provincial for the Detroit Province, and executive director of the Detroit Province Spirituality Team. He was an associate professor of Spiritual Theology at Weston School of Theology, served as dean and an adjunct professor in Spiritual Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif. During his time at Weston, he lectured occasionally at Boston College. He also has taught at Fordham and John Carroll universities, Loyola University of New Orleans and the University of Detroit Mercy. Fr. Gray's publications include *An Experience In Ignatian Government*, *Studies In the Spirituality of the Jesuits* and numerous articles. He earned a bachelor's degree in English and classics, a licentiate in philosophy and a licentiate in sacred theology from Loyola University of Chicago, and a doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin.

Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer, historian, and chronicler of exploration. His books have been translated into over 20 languages worldwide. In October 2007, Alfred A. Knopf published *Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu*, a groundbreaking biography of the iconic traveler. Warner Brothers is developing a feature film based on this book starring Matt Damon and written by William Monahan, who won an Oscar for The Departed. He has written for many national publications including *Esquire*, *Newsweek*, *TV Guide*, *Details*, *Prologue*, *The Chicago Tribune*, and *Military History Quarterly*. He has taught at the New School for Social Research and served as Assistant to the President of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. In 1995, he served as a judge for the National Book Awards and in 1991 as a judge for the PEN/Albrand Nonfiction Award. A frequent lecturer at major universities and symposiums, he also serves as a Featured Historian for the History Channel. Mr. Bergreen graduated from Harvard University in 1972. He is a member of PEN American Center, The Explorers Club, the Authors Guild, and the board of the New York Society Library. He lives in New York City and is represented by Suzanne Gluck of the William Morris Agency.

As president and CEO of The Minneapolis Foundation, Emmett D. Carson provides overall vision, leadership and motivation for one of the largest, oldest and most complex community foundations in the country. He oversees the Foundations grantmaking, loan making, communications, fund development and investment management activities. As external spokesperson, he is responsible for developing collaborative relationships with all sectors and segments of the community as well as with other organizations nationwide. Since his arrival in 1994, the Foundation has embarked on a ten-year $20 million initiative to improve the lives of children and families in poverty, raised record annual gifts ($46 million in fiscal year 1999) and increased total assets under management from $186 million to over $400 million. Carson came to The Minneapolis Foundation from the Ford Foundation in New York, where he spent 5 years as program officer, first in the area of social justice and then in governance and public policy. Responsible for the Foundations domestic and international support of community foundations and the nonprofit sector, Carson managed a $10 million grantmaking budget that reached across the country and as far as Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to that he served as project director of the Study on Black Philanthropy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC, where he designed and directed the first national study of the charitable giving and volunteer behavior of black and white Americans. Earlier in his career, Carson taught research and public policy courses as an adjunct professor in the Afro-American Studies program at the University of Maryland and served as a legislative research analyst at The Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Carson received a Phi Beta Kappa bachelors degree in economics from Morehouse College and MPA and PhD degrees in public and international affairs from Princeton University. He is the author of several books and dozens of articles on American philanthropy.