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Professor Csikszentmihalyi is the director of the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC). The QLRC is a non-profit research institute that studies "positive psychology"; that is, human strengths such as optimism, creativity, intrinsic motivation, and responsibility. Professor Csikszentmihalyi is a member of the American Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Leisure Studies.

Steve Cohen is a lecturer at the Department of Education and is in his sixth year at Tufts. Professor Cohen edited and wrote anthologies to accompany the public television documentaries *Vietnam A Television History* and *Eyes On The Prize* . Steve has been a Program Associate with "Facing History and Ourselves" for two decades and written articles about teaching controversial issues like Vietnam, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust.

Nancy Faust Sizer is a career teacher who has worked in public and private high schools, including Cambridge Rindge and Latin, Phillips Academy, and the Wheeler School. With her husband, Theodore R. Sizer, she has taught at Brown University and currently teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Both Nancy and Ted recently served as Acting Co-Principals at the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School where Nancy also was Transition Counselor, helping to lead its first graduating class through the transition to postsecondary education. *The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract* (Beacon Press, 1999) is her most recent book, written with her husband Ted.

Professor Orfield received his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He is primarily interested in the study of civil rights, education policy, urban policy, and minority opportunity. He was co-founder and director of the Harvard Civil Rights Project and is now co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. Orfield's central interest has been the development and implementation of social policy, with a central focus on the impact of policy on equal opportunity for success in American society. Orfield received the 2007 "Social Justice in Education" Award by the American Educational Research Association for "work that has had a profound impact on demonstrating the critical role of education research in supporting social justice." He is a member of the National Academy of Education. Professor Orfield, together with Professor Patricia Gondara, co-director of the Civil Rights Project, received two new research grants since June 2007. The first initiative, funded by the Eleanor Foundation of Chicago, is entitled, "The Future Rests on Working Moms: Unequal Opportunity and Policies to Help Them Realize Their Dreams for Their Children." The second study, funded by the Ford Foundation, is called "Breaking the Chain of Failure: Moving from Weak High Schools to Strong Community Colleges for Students of Color."

Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco was educated in public schools in Latin America and at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his AB (Psychology, 1980), MA (Anthropology, 1981) and Ph D. (Anthropology, 1986). His basic research is on conceptual and empirical problems in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with a focus on the study of immigration and globalization. He is author of numerous scholarly essays, books, and edited volumes and over 100 scholarly papers appearing in international journals. He became a tenured professor of Human Development and Psychology at Harvard (in 1995) where he was appointed the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education (in 2001). In 1997 along with his wife Carola Suarez-Orozco, he co-founded the Harvard Immigration Projects and began to co-direct the largest study ever funded in the history of the National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology division a study of Asian, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino immigrant youth in American society. He is winner of multiple honors and awards and was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2004. In September 2004, he was appointed the first Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at The Steinhardt School of Education, New York University where he also holds the title of University Professor. The Suarez-Orozco's are Co-Directors of Immigration Studies at NYU.

Robert B. Reich is professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He last served in government as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. His articles have appeared in *The New Yorker*, *The Atlantic Monthly*, *The New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, and *The Wall Street Journal*. He contributes weekly commentaries to *Marketplace* on public radio, appears regularly on television, and is a cofounding editor of *The American Prospect*. In 2003 Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for pioneering work in economic and social thought. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Juan Flores is Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at the City University of new York Graduate Center. In recent years he has also been visiting professor at Rutgers, Princeton, Columbia, New York University and Harvard. From 1994 to 1997 he served as Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter, and is currently Director of Hunter's Mellon Minority Fellowship Program. He is the author of *Poetry in East Germany* (Choicemagazine award), *The Insular Vision* (winner Casa de las Americas award), *Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity*, and *From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity*. He also is the translator of *Memoirs of Bernardo Vega* and of *Cortijo's Wake* by Edgardo Rodriguez Julio. His work has appeared in numerous journals and newspapers in the U.S. and Latin America. He is co-editor of two book series, one on "Cultural Studies of the Americas" for University of Minnesota Press, the other on "Puerto Rican Studies" with Temple University Press.

Frances X. Hogan, a partner at the law firm of Lyne, Woodworth & Evarts, is president of Women Affirming Life and consultant to the Pro-Life Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Ms Hogan graduated from Regis College and with honors from Boston College Law School where she served as a member of the Board of Editors of the Boston College Law Review and was admitted to membership in the Order of the Coif. Admitted to the Massachusetts and the federal bars, Ms. Hogan is a member of the Massachusetts Conveyancers Association. [Source: http://www.mediate.com/people/personprofile.cfm?auid=554]

Professor Burnham began her career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund litigating school desegregation cases. She has served as a Boston municipal court judge and a partner in a Boston civil rights firm with an international human rights practice. Her areas of interest are civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. Professor Burnham directs the Northeastern University Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project , which engages students in legal matters relating to the 1960s US civil rights movement.