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A novelist, poet, multimedia and performance artist. Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn had been in the United States for only three years (after moving from the Philippines at age thirteen) when her poems caught the attention of Kenneth Rexroth. Rexroth, a San Francisco-based artist, encouraged her to hone her writing and edited the book that first featured her poetry, *Four Young Women* (1973). Forged in the heat of the early 1970s ethnic revival, her early forays into poetry, playwriting, and short fiction employed the psychedelic and rebellious idioms particular to that period. Anthologized in *Mountain Moving Day* (1973), *Third World Women* (1973), and *Time to Greez!* (1975), she soon produced her first collection of poetry and fiction, *Dangerous Music *(1975).

V. Gene Robinson was elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire on June 7, 2003, having served as Canon to the Ordinary (Assistant to the Bishop) for nearly 18 years. He was consecrated a Bishop on All Saints Sunday, November 2, 2003, and was invested as the Ninth Bishop of New Hampshire on March 7, 2004. A 1969 graduate of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, he has a B.A. in American Studies/History. In 1973, he completed the M.Div. degree at the General Theological Seminary in New York, was ordained deacon, and then priest, serving as Curate at Christ Church, Ridgewood, New Jersey before moving to New Hampshire. Clergy wellness has long been a focus of Gene's ministry, and in the nineties he developed the "Being Well in Christ" conference model for The Cornerstone Project, and led clergy conferences in over 20 dioceses in the U.S. and Canada. He initiated "Fresh Start," a two-year mentoring program for all clergy in new positions in New Hampshire, and co-authored the Fresh Start curriculum, now in use in nearly half of the dioceses of the Episcopal Church. Much of his ministry has focused on helping congregations and clergy, especially in times of conflict, utilizing his skills in congregational dynamics, conflict resolution and mediation. Co-author of three AIDS education curricula for youth and adults, Gene has done AIDS work in the United States and in Africa (Uganda and South Africa). He has been an advocate for anti-racism training in the diocese and wider Church. He helped build the Diocese of New Hampshire's close working partnership with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, advocated for debt relief for the world's most impoverished nations, and lobbied for socially-responsible investment within and beyond the Church. Bishop Robinson has been active particularly in the area of full civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender people. Working at the state, national and international levels, he has spoken and lobbied for equal protection under the law and full civil marriage rights. He has been honored by many LGBT organizations for this work, including The Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the Equality Forum. Bishop Robinson was invited by Barack Obama to give the invocation at the opening inaugural ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

Diane L. Moore pursues research interests in the public understanding of religion through education from a cultural studies lens. Her current focus is on the intersections of religion, ecology, and human rights. She is also interested in the relationship among religion, the arts, and social change. She is the director of the Program in Religious Studies and Education and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Religion and Education and the British Journal of Religious Education. She is also chair of the American Academy of Religion's Task Force on Religion in the Schools, which is completing a three-year initiative to establish guidelines for teaching about religion in K-12 public schools. Her book Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education was published by Palgrave in 2007. She was one of two professors chosen by Harvard Divinity School students as 2005-06 HDS Outstanding Teacher of the Year. Moore also taught at Phillips Andover Academy, in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, until 2007. She is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Cheryl Giles, is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling, at Harvard Divinity School. She also works as a consultant to the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Social Services, as well as non-profit organizations, schools, and colleges. Professor Giles is also the recipient of the Outstanding African-American Making History Today Award, Boston Renaissance School (2004).

Dale Maharidge has been teaching at the journalism school since 2001; he first taught here in the early 1990s. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University for 10 years and before that he spent 15 years as a newspaperman, writing for the *Cleveland Plain Dealer*, *The Sacramento Bee*, and others. He's written for *Rolling Stone*, *George Magazine*, *The Nation, Mother Jones*, *The New York Times* op-ed page, among others. Most of his books are illustrated with the work of photographer Michael Williamson. Maharidge's first book, *Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass* (1985), later inspired Bruce Springsteen to write two songs; it was reissued in 1996 with an introduction by Springsteen. His second book, *And Their Children After Them* (1989), won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1990. Other books include *Yosemite: A Landscape of Life* (1990); *The Last Great American Hobo* (1993); and *The Coming White Minority: California, Multiculturalism & the Nation's Future* (1996, 1999); *Homeland* (2004); and *Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town* (2005). Maharidge attended Cleveland State University. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2004, Maharidge held a Yaddo artist's residency.

Joan is an actor/storyteller who is selected for the Massachusetts Cultural Council's Events and residency Roster of Artists, and the Mass Touring Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts. She is the creator and performer of "Petticoat Adventures", dramatic solo performances interpreting the lives of extraordinary American women including Deborah Samson, First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams, seafaring Johanna Burgess, and Rachel Revere.

As a newly minted Ph.D. in 1958, Alfred Young bucked historical conventions, which gave a central place to high politics, political biography, and elite intellectual history. In *The Democratic Republicans of New York* (1967), Young studied the political movements and aspirations of the "meaner sort" of the Revolutionary era, placing them within a broader class analysis of politics. In its focus on the popular classes, on social conflict, and on the Revolution as the occasion for unleashing popular politics, Young anticipated many of the themes and interpretations that distinguish studies of the Revolution over the next two decades. Young then embarked on an ambitious study of Boston artisans during the Revolutionary era. In other articles and lectures, Young explored the transmission of English popular rituals and traditions to the colonies and their mobilization during the Revolution, the transformations of artisans consciousness and politics, and the impact of popular politics on the drafting of the Constitution.

commonly known by his initials I.M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize winning Chinese born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture.

A writer and architect, he is currently the Pulitzer-Prize winning architecture critic for the Boston Globe. Campbell has received many awards for his writing including a Design Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts 1976 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. He is a fellow of the AIA and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Melinda Marble is the Executive Director of the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation. Formerly, she was a Senior Associate at TPI where she created the Boston Neighborhood Fellows Program. She also served as Vice President of Program for The Boston Foundation and Associate Director at the Lincoln Filene Center at Tufts University. Before moving to Boston, Melinda was a Program Executive for the San Francisco Foundation and she also chaired the Bay Area Foundations/Corporations Emergency Fund. Marble has drawn on her experience to develop training programs and material for donors and foundation staff. For the past three years, she had helped the Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts develop its "Insights" series on nonprofit management issues and has led sessions on nonprofit life cycles.

Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski attended The University of Connecticut, graduating as University Scholar with a BS in the Biological Sciences in 1989. Dudzinski completed and was awarded her doctorate in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences with a focus on Dolphin Communication and Behavior in August 1996. Her first experience related to marine mammals was as an intern with the Atlantic Cetacean Research Center in the Summer of 1987. Dudzinski was awarded a National Science Foundation Three Year Pre Doctoral Fellowship in 1990 and began graduate studies with Dr. Bernd Worsig and the Marine Mammal Research Program at Texas A&M University in September of the same year. During her graduate program, Dudzinski studied communication between Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in Bahamian waters with a focus on contact behavior and signal exchange among dolphins. In 2002, Dr. Dudzinski became an Adjunct Faculty member in Psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi. With Dr. Stan Kuczaj, Kathleen advises two to three graduate students currently studying various aspects of dolphin sounds and behavior. Kuczaj and Dudzinski are preparing protocols for gathering data on dolphin behavior with a focus on comparing data from both captive and wild study sites. In 2004 and 2005, respectively, Dudzinski became Adjunct Faculty in Animal Science at the University of Rhode Island and in Environmental Science at Alaska Pacific University.