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Ardath Harter Rodale, chairman of the board of Rodale, Inc., is the author of *Climbing Toward the Light* (1989) and *Gifts of the Spirit *(1997). Ardie also writes "Reflections," a monthly column for Rodale's *Prevention* magazine, the world's largest-circulation health magazine. Chosen as one of the top 50 women business owners in the United States by *Working Woman* magazine and one of the 50 leading women entrepreneurs in the world by The Star Group, Ardie is the mother of five children and the grandmother of ten. She lives in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, on her family's organic farm.

Krogh was a White House Deputy for Domestic Affairs from 1970 to 1972. President Nixon gave Krogh the task of trying to lower crime in Washington DC, which led him to support the idea that treating heroin addicts with methadone could potentially lower crime rates.

Dallas Hudgens is the author of the novels Drive Like Hell (Scribner, 2005), and Season of Gene (Scribner, 2007). He has appeared at the Omaha Lit Fest, Virginia Festival of the Book, Georgia Center for the Book and venues around the country. Hudgen's writing has been published in FANZINE, Five Chapters and The Washington Post.

Lara Santoro is most recently the author of *Mercy*, a novel. She spent most of her career as a foreign news correspondent, based primarily in Rome and in Nairobi working for *Newsweek* and *The Christian Science Monitor*. Her work has also appeared in* the Wall Street Journal*, *The New Republic*, *The Boston Globe*, *The London Telegraph*, *The Times of London* and *The Sunday Times*. She holds a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature from Smith College, a Master's degree in French Literature from the Sorbonne, and a Master's in Fine Arts from New York University, where she was the recipient of the Developmental Fellowship, a biannual award. She was born in Rome, and currently lives in New Mexico.

Being born and raised into a working-class family in Youngstown, Ohio, and witness to the steel era decline in the seventies and eighties encouraged Kenneth J. Bindas to study the negotiation of power between government, business and the people. Using culture (political, social, and popular) as the lens to view primarily the Depression era, his research and teaching has focused on how the people redefined themselves, their government, and business in this era of swirling change. Bindas' current research intersects the construction of memory and society: on one hand he is working on Oral history methodology and its role in the construction of history (both personal and social); and on the other, researching the multivariate means by which modernity became not just a term to help define the Depression era, but signaled a change of consciousness, a secular reformation.

Kaffie McCullough received her masters degree in Community Counseling in 1986 and launched a successful 10-year career as a licensed professional counselor, focusing her work on female clients and issues of self-esteem. Through her experience in her own private therapy practice, in which she saw a number of middle school age clients, McCullough identified that age as the pivotal time when the decline in self-esteem begins. Drawing on experience gained volunteering in a week-long outdoor leadership camp for young girls at Wells, Kaffie McCullough founded the not-for-profit organization, Girls Opportunities for Adventure and Leadership (GOAL). Started as a week-long summer camp, GOAL now offers a number of programs primarily for girls in grades 6 through 9. The mission of GOAL is to promote self-esteem, self-awareness and a respect for individual differences in girls and young women, resulting in an enhanced capacity for leadership. Along with her entrepreneurial successes, McCullough serves the Atlanta community as a speaker, resource, and advisor for other groups working on programs for girls and young women. Over the last year, she has worked to develop a consortium of nonprofit consultants to support new groups and organizations that are preparing to move to the next stage of their development. She is now working with the Juvenile Justice Fund, overseeing a program aimed at combating the criminal sexual exploitation of children.

Paul Howard is Fulton County District Attorney and is currently serving his third term. He is the first African-American to be elected district attorney in the history of the State of Georgia. Prior to being elected district attorney in 1996, Howard served as Fulton County's Solicitor General for four years. A cum laude graduate of Morehouse College in political science, Howard received the school's Marvin C. Magnum Legal Achievement Award. His exemplary undergraduate performance also earned him an academic scholarship at Emory University's School of Law. While doing graduate work at Emory, Howard became the president of the Black American Law Students Association and later the vice president of the Student Bar Association.

Frye Gaillard, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama, has written extensively on southern race relations, politics and culture. He is former Southern Editor at The Charlotte Observer, where he covered Charlotte’s landmark school desegregation controversy, the ill-fated ministry of televangelist Jim Bakker, the funeral of Elvis Presley, and the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Martin Rickerd has been Her Majesty's Consul-General at Atlanta since October, 2005. Martin was educated as a child at British Army schools in Malaysia and Germany before attending private schools in the UK. He joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1972, serving at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) London before being assigned to the UK Delegation to NATO (Brussels, Belgium) in 1975. He was transferred to Wellington, New Zealand in 1978. In 1980 he returned to London to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff to a Minister in the FCO before being posted in 1982 to Barbados, where his duties took him to much of the Eastern Caribbean. From 1986 to 1990 he was responsible for press and political work at the British Consulate General in Milan, Italy. In the early 1990s he was head of the FCO's International Energy section and subsequently head of section in South East Asia Department. He was Head of Chancery [political section] at the British High Commission in Singapore from 1995 to 1998, when he returned to the UK to take up a secondment to Standard Chartered Bank at its London headquarters. From 2000 to 2003 he was Deputy Head of Mission and Consul at the British Embassy in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (also working in Liberia, Burkina Faso and Niger). Returning to London, he was Head of the North America Team in the FCO, dealing with the USA and Canada, until July 2005. In this capacity he oversaw arrangements for President Bush's State Visit to the UK in 2003. He was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1985 and an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2004.