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Eric Klopfer is the Director of the MIT Teacher Education Program, and the Scheller Career Development Professor of Science Education and Educational Technology at MIT. The Teacher Education Program prepares MIT undergraduates to become math and science teachers. Klopfer's research focuses on the development and use of computer games and simulations for building understanding of science and complex systems. His research explores simulations and games on desktop computers as well as handhelds. He currently runs the StarLogo project, a desktop platform that enables students and teachers to create computer simulations of complex systems. He is also the creator of StarLogo TNG, a new platform for helping kids create 3D simulations and games using a graphical programming language. He is the co-director of The Education Arcade, which is advancing the development and use of games in K-12 education. Klopfer's work combines the construction of new software tools with research and development of new pedagogical supports that support the use of these tools in the classroom. He is the co-author of the book, *Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamic Systems with StarLogo*, and is working on a new book on handheld games and learning from MIT Press.

Mary E. Walsh, Ph.D., is the Kearn's Professor of Urban Education and Innovative Leadership at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. She also directs the Boston College Center for Child, Family, and Community Partnerships which joins the resources of the schools of education, law, social work, nursing and management in community collaborations that enhance the academic and healthy development of youth. Prior to coming to Boston College, she was director of behavioral sciences in the department of family and community medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Walsh has been a leading collaborator in "Boston Connects" a school-community-university partnership directed at addressing non-academic barriers to learning and promoting healthy development in school children. The YMCA of Greater Boston serves as the lead community agency in this effort. With support from the New Balance Foundation, the Boston Connects program has recently initiated the provision of regular health education to over 3300 children in school and after-school settings. Dr. Walsh has published and presented widely in the area of school-community supports for schoolchildren and their families. Her two most recent books are *Children, Health and Learning* and *Meeting at the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Communities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well-Being* (co-authored with M. Brabeck). She obtained her Ph.D. in clinical-developmental psychology from Clark University.

Bob Vinson has been a body worker since 1991. He began as a muscular therapist, a graduate from the Muscular Therapy Institute, and was a full time member of their staff for ten years. In 1999, Bob became SI certified in structural integration. Well respected in his field, Bob is regularly asked to teach the curriculum to other body workers around the world. Before Bob discovered his passion for supporting others through body work, he served as the executive director of the Merrimac Valley Goodwill Industries, and worked at the Department of Mental Health and Retardation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He served his country from 1967 - 1972 as a soldier in the US Army, and from 1969-1970 was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, where his war experiences moved him to become a peace activist. Bob has a B.A. Degree in Sociology from UMass Amherst, and a Masters Degree from the Heller School at Brandeis University.

James Reid-Cunningham studied history and art history at Johns Hopkins University and Tufts University before beginning his career in book conservation at Harvard University. He studied bookbinding with Mark Esser at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, and is the President of the Guild of Book Workers. Formerly the Conservator of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, he is currently the Chief Conservator of the Boston Athenaeum, a private membership library founded in 1807. He is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. He is an advisor to the bookbinding program at the North Bennet Street School, and in 2006, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from NBSS.

Anthony Shadid is based in the Middle East for *The Washington Post*. Before joining *the Post*, Shadid worked as Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press based in Cairo and as news editor of the AP bureau in Los Angeles. He spent two years covering diplomacy and the State Department for the *Boston Globe* before joining *the Post*'s foreign desk. In 2004, Shadid won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his coverage of the Iraq war.

David Greenberg is associate professor of History and of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. His first book, *Nixons Shadow: The History of an Image* (W.W. Norton, 2003) won the Washington Monthly Annual Political Book Award, the American Journalism History Award, and Columbia University's Bancroft Dissertation Award. He recently was awarded the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, awarded annually to someone whose work in the humanities shows extraordinary promise and has a significant public component related to contemporary culture, as well as the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. He is currently working on a history of political spin. Prof. Greenberg has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications, including *The New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, *The Atlantic Monthly*,and *The New Yorker. He is a regular contributor to the online magazine *Slate*, where he writes the "History Lesson" column and other occasional reviews and essays. Before pursuing his PhD, he served as acting editor and managing editor of *The New Republic* magazine.*

Joe Lockhart is a founding partner with The Glover Park Group which specializes in media relations and political strategy. He served as chief spokesman for President Clinton and the Clinton administration from 1998-2000, where he conducted daily press conferences for White House journalists and briefed the president and senior members of his administration on all press matters. He also coordinated the creation and dissemination of message for all departments within the administration. Lockhart has extensive experience working with clients in an agency setting. From 1991-1995, he was executive vice president at Bozell Sawyer Miller. In that capacity he advised a range of high-profile corporate and institutional clients, including Microsoft, Coca-Cola and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Lockhart is also a veteran of political campaigns. Before joining the White House in 1997, he was national press secretary for the Clinton-Gore '96 reelection campaign. He was the deputy press secretary for the Dukakis-Bentsen '88 presidential campaign, traveling with the nominee. In 1984, he was assistant press secretary for the Mondale-Ferraro campaign and during the 1980 Carter-Mondale campaign he was a regional press coordinator. An award-winning journalist, Lockhart has held key positions at *SKY Television News of London, Cable News Network (CNN) and ABC Network News*. At *SKY Television News*, Lockhart served as foreign producer for Europe's first 24-hour television direct broadcast news service and contributing reporter/producer to the International Business Report. As deputy assignment manager for *CNN*, he tracked Washington-oriented news stories involving the White House, Congress and federal agencies. Lockhart was also an assignment editor for ABC Network News.

Marcy Wheeler is an American blogger who wrote in *The Next Hurrah* prior to contributing primarily to Jane Hamsher's *FireDogLake* (FDL), since early December 2007. She also contributes occasionally to Markos Moulitsas Zoniga's aggregated blog *Daily Kos*, Arianna Huffington's aggregrated news site and blog *The Huffington Post*, *Michigan Liberal*, as well as other online sites, and to the "Comment Is Free" section of the Guardian Online. During United States v. Libby, the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, along with other regular press-accredited bloggers, Wheeler reported on the testimony live from the courtroom. In her accounts of the Libby trial, she describes her entries as "not a transcript." Nevertheless, such bloggers' eye-witness accounts served as sources of reliable information about the trial for their readers.