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Scott Harshbarger is the former attorney general of Massachusetts, and a past president and chief executive officer of Common Cause. He is currently senior counsel at Proskauer Rose, in Boston.

Jean McGuire has been executive director of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc., (METCO) since 1973. As head of METCO, the largest and oldest not-for-profit desegregation/integration program in America, McGuire has become one of the most significant and outspoken leaders of the movement for quality education for people of color in metropolitan Boston and nationally. An activist for equal education and quality teachers, McGuire was a student at Girls Latin School and a Boston Public Schools teacher. Dr. McGuire attended Howard University and holds a B.S. from Boston State College, an M.A. in Education from Tufts University, and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Salem State College. In 1981 Dr. McGuire became the second African American elected to serve on the Boston School Committee.

Since he joined NPR in 2000, Knox has covered a broad range of issues and events in public health, medicine, and science. His reports can be heard on NPR's *Morning Edition*, *All Things Considered*, *Weekend Edition*, *Talk of the Nation*, and newscasts. Among other things, Knox's NPR reports have examined the impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa, North America, and the Caribbean; anthrax terrorism; smallpox and other bioterrorism preparedness issues; the rising cost of medical care; early detection of lung cancer; community caregiving; music and the brain; and the SARS epidemic. Before joining NPR, Knox covered medicine and health for *The Boston Globe*. His award-winning 1995 articles on medical errors are considered landmarks in the national movement to prevent medical mistakes. Knox is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Columbia University. He has held yearlong fellowships at Stanford and Harvard Universities, and is the author of a 1993 book on Germany's health care system.

A NASA trained engineer and Ironman triathlete, Kim Blair is the President/Founder of Sports Innovation Group LLC consultancy and the Founding Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sports Innovation program. Dr. Blair is a recognized expert in sports technology and innovation and has extensive experience utilizing advanced technologies to improve human athletic performance, and developing hands-on educational programs in innovation, product development and sports engineering and technology.

Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD is director of the MIT AgeLab. He leads the US Department of Transportation's New England University Transportation Center, a research consortium of MIT, Harvard University and each of the 6 New England state universities. He is one of *Fast Company Magazine*'s 100 Most Creative People in Business and was named by the *Wall Street Journal* as one of 12 pioneers inventing the future of aging and how we will all live, work and play tomorrow, his research seeks to understand how demographic and social trends, human behavior and technology converge to drive future innovations in business and government. Based in MIT's Engineering Systems Division, Dr. Coughlin teaches classes in policy and systems innovation offered in both MIT's School of Engineering and Harvard Medical School. He consults to governments, financial services, consumer products, foods, automobile, retailers, IT and health firms worldwide.

Brian King is a professor of electrical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Nicholas Katzenbach was born in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 17th January, 1922. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy he joined the United States Army Air Force (USAAF). During the Second World War he was captured by enemy troops and spent two years as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war Katzenbach attended Princeton University and Yale Law School. While at Yale he was editor-in-chief of *the Yale Law Journal*. He also received a Rhodes scholarship and studied at Oxford University for two years. In 1950 Katzenbach became a lawyer in New Jersey. In 1952 he became Associate Professor of Law at Yale University and also served as a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago (1956-1960). Katzenbach joined the justice department's Office of Legal Counsel and in April 1962, was promoted to deputy attorney general, the second highest position in the department. Katzenbach worked closely with President John F. Kennedy and was given the task of securing the release of prisoners captured during the Bay of Pigs raid on Cuba. On the advice of Robert Kennedy President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Katzenbach as Attorney General of the United States. In this post he helped draft the Voting Rights Act. Katzenbach clashed with J. Edgar Hoover over his policy of ordering unauthorized wiretaps of people such as Martin Luther King. After Johnson resigned Katzenbach returned to private law practice in Princeton, New Jersey.