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Janet Marie Smith was named senior vice president of planning and development for the Boston Red Sox in 2005. She served as vice president of planning and development for the Red Sox, since 2002, when the Henry-Werner Group purchased the franchise. She directs the renovation and area planning for Fenway Park. Since 2002, the team has added capacity, created space for fan amenities, and improved infrastructure and amenities in the ballpark and along surrounding streets. Smith brings her experiences in urban development and architecture, and passion for design to these endeavors as she has previous projects, including Atlanta's Philips Arena (1999) and Turner Field (1997), Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards (1992), Pershing Square in Los Angeles (1988), and Battery Park City in New York (1984). Smith's combined loves of baseball and city life served her well in Atlanta, where she was president of Turner Sports and Entertainment Development, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, and was vice president of planning and development for the Atlanta Braves baseball team. During her tenure, projects that came to fruition included the 20,000-seat Philips Arena, home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and NHL's Atlanta Thrashers; a renovation of the CNN Center; improvements to the area surrounding Centennial Olympic Park; and the design and conversion of Atlanta's 1996 Olympic Stadium into Turner Field, the home of the Braves. Smith holds a master's degree in urban planning from City College of New York and a bachelor of architecture degree from Mississippi State University. She is an associate member of the Urban Land Institute, American Institute of Architects, and the American Planning Association. Major publications, including *the New York Times*, *New Yorker*, *Los Angeles Times*, *Chicago Tribune*, and *Esquire*, have cited her work.

William Francis Lee III (born December 28, 1946), (nicknamed "Spaceman"), is an American athlete and retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1969-1978 and the Montreal Expos from 1979-1982. On November 7, 2008, Lee was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame as the team's record holder for most games pitched by a left-hander (321) and the third-highest win total (94) by a Red Sox southpaw. In addition to his baseball success, Lee is known for his adherence to counterculture behavior, his antics both on and off the field, and his use of the Leephus pitch, a personalized variation of the eephus pitch. Lee has written four books: *The Wrong Stuff; Have Glove, Will Travel; The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History; and Baseball Eccentrics: the Most Entertaining, Outrageous, and Unforgettable Characters in the Game*.

Joan Branham is an associate professor of Art History and the department chair of Art and Art History. She is interested by the relationship of "the sacred" and "the profane" in architecture. Branham is the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. She believes that it is important to recognize the multiple dimensions of faculty members, especially in their roles as teachers and scholars. The CTE is thus committed to supporting faculty teaching and research, not simply as two separate entities, but as mutually reinforcing elements within the lives of faculty members.

Lawrence Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel and head of the Harvard Semitic Museum in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University has overseen excavations under the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, the great Philistine port city, since 1985, as well as Carthage. Professor Stager teaches courses in Syro-Palestinian archaeology and Hebrew Bible at Harvard University and is an active professional member of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). Prior to teaching at Harvard, he was professor of Syro-Palestinian archaeology at the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Stager has written several articles: one accessible piece for laymen being "The Fury of Babylon: Ashkelon and the Archaeology of Destruction," in the *Biblical Archaeology Review* for January/February 1996.

Cynthia Lopez is the vice president for American Documentary's POV. Cynthia Lopez has been with POV since 2000, serving first as Communications Director before being appointed to Vice President for American Documentary. Lopez is responsible for development of programming content, broadcast distribution, communications and marketing, and strategic development of the organization. Under her leadership as Communications Director, national media coverage of POV programs more than tripled and she has forged strategic partnerships with Harpo Studios, Netflix, ABC News' *Nightline*, WNYC New York Public Radio, Pentgram, Inc., Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and *Ms. Magazine*, among many others. The promotional campaign Lopez spearheaded for the POV film, *Farmingville*, won the prestigious EPPSilon Award. Before joining POV, Lopez spent four years at Libraries for the Future as Advocacy Director, developing innovative strategies to serve some of the nations poorest libraries. Her previous experience in public media includes stints as Acting Executive Director of Deep Dish TV Network and Executive Producer of Satellite University Network. Her production credits include serving as Executive Producer on Beyond the Browning of America (PBS) hosted by Maria Hinojosa, and as Senior Producer for The Qunicentenary, a Television Espanola, Canal+ and BBC co-production. Lopez is a founding board member of NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) and is an advisor to REEL New York (Thirteen/WNET New York). She has been an advisor for the Heinz Awards, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, Rockefeller Fellowships, Independent Television Service (ITVS), Americans for the Arts, the Banff Centre in Canada and AIVF. She has been a presenter at a variety of venues including: White House Conference on Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, United Nations Women's Conference, Channels for Change (Scotland) Center for Democratic Communications (South Africa) and the international media alliance, Videazimut, among others.

Bonnie Abaunza joined Participant as Vice President, Campaign Development & Operations in May, 2007, where she is responsible for the creation and implementation of advocacy campaigns for Participants films. Prior to Participant, Bonnie served for six years as Director of the Artists for Amnesty program for the United States headquarters of Amnesty International, cultivating relationships with celebrity spokespeople interested in leveraging their visibility to support critical human rights and social justice issues and raising Amnesty Internationals visibility, enhance organizational diversity and attract a new generation of activists through the power of popular media. During her time as Director, Artists for Amnesty has produced four film festivals, four Academy Awards viewing parties to benefit Amnesty, quarterly entertainment industry salons, more than 50 high-profile feature and documentary screening events, and numerous fundraisers, art showings, and educational and promotional events. Bonnie graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, with specialization in International Relations. Recipient of the 2004 Hispanic Heritage Award given by PBS affiliate KCET Los Angeles and Union Bank of California for her singular contributions to the arts and the Latino community, she has also received commendations from the United States Congress (House of Representatives) and from the City of Los Angeles. She currently serves as Board Chair, Artists for Amnesty and on the Board of Casa Libre/Freedom House operated by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.

Billie Grace Lynn earned an MFA in Sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Miami. She has had solo exhibitions of her work in California, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and in China, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Georgia, SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and MOCA/Goldman Warehouse in Miami. Billie has also won several awards and fellowships, including a recent South Florida Cultural Consortium grant, and fellowships from Art Matters and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has participated in artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Carol Gilligan is an internationally acclaimed psychologist and prolific writer. She graduated summa cum laude from Swarthmore College in 1958 with a major in literature. She went on to do advanced work at Radcliffe University receiving a Masters in clinical psychology in 1960. She earned her doctorate in social psychology from Harvard University in 1964. Gilligan began teaching at Harvard in 1967 with renowned psychologist Erik Erikson. In 1970 she became a research assistant for Lawrence Kohlberg. Kohlberg is known for his research on moral development and his stage theory of moral development, justice and rights. Gilligan received tenure as a full professor for the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1986. Gilligan spent 1992-1994 teaching at the University of Cambridge in England. She was invited there as a Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions. Her area of academic expertise is in human development and psychology. She is a considered to be a pioneer of gender studies and particularly in the psychological and moral development of girls. In 1997, Gilligan was appointed to Harvard University's first position in gender studies which is a newly endowed position at the Harvard Graduate School of Education known as the Patricia Albjerg Graham Chair in Gender Studies.