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  • Mari Holden is a professional cyclist who has earned many bicycling titles, including multiple National titles, a World Championship and Olympic medal. She currently sits on the Board of Directors at USA Cycling, the United States Cycling Federation, and trains with the Challenged Athletes Foundation while consulting for Giant, Castelli and Time.
  • Clifford Martin Will is the James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics, and member of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Born in Hamilton, Canada in 1946, he received his pre-college and college education there, obtaining a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from McMaster University in 1968. In 1971, he obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and remained at Caltech for one year as an Instructor in Physics. He was an Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago from 1972 to 1974. In 1974 he joined the faculty of Stanford University as an Assistant Professor of Physics, and remained there until 1981. From 1975 to 1979, he was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, and during 1978-79 a Mellon Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow. In 1981 he joined Washington University in St. Louis as Associate Professor, in 1985 became Professor of Physics, from 1991 - 1996 and 1997 - 2002 served as Chairman, and in 2005 was named McDonnell Professor. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. He was also elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2007. Will has published over 160 scientific articles, including 13 major review articles, 26 popular or semi-popular articles, and two books, *Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics* (1981), and *Was Einstein Right?* (1986). The latter book won the 1987 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, was selected one of the 200 best books for 1986 by *the New York Times* Book Review, and has undergone translation into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Greek, Persian, and Chinese.
  • As a maritime archaeologist who works around the globe, James P. Delgado spent decades in the world of underwater exploration. He's been privileged to host the television show *The Sea Hunters* for five years, and work as executive director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum for fifteen years. He is now president of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA). James also work hard to promote the cause of maritime preservation, teach at universities, give presentations to various groups worldwide and write books and articles on his finds and experiences.
  • Robert Schulmann, a former Boston University history professor, is former head of the Einstein Papers Project. He coedited *Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters and* many volumes of *The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein*.
  • David E. Rowe studied mathematics and the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, and took a second doctorate in history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He served as book review editor, managing editor, and editor of the journal *Historia Mathematica*. In 1992, Rowe was appointed Professor of History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz where he presently teaches. His research has mainly focused on mathematics in Germany, but in recent years he has been concerned with Einstein's general theory of relativity and the broader cultural and political impact of Einstein's ideas. As part of this effort, he and Robert Schulmann have co-edited a source book entitled* Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb*, published by Princeton University Press in 2007.
  • Jessica Madden-Fuoco received BA in History, BS in Secondary Education from Boston University and a MA in the Teaching of Social Studies from the Teachers College. Jessica comes to Teacher's College with a wealth of experience as a young but practiced pedagogue and leader. Having held faculty posts at four different public schools in Massachusetts and New York, she has taught Social Studies, GED courses as well as Reader's and Writer's Workshops. For the past three years Jessica has been a Literacy Coach and now an English Teacher at Brighton High School. At Brighton she has founded and advised three student clubs including: the Student Advocacy Program, the No Place for Hate Anti-Bias Club and the Gay-Straight Alliance.
  • John Rodgaard has twenty years' experience as an intelligence analyst and is a captain and reserve intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. A contributor to P*roceedings* and *Naval History* magazine, he also lives in the Washington D.C., area.
  • Corngold, a Princeton faculty member since 1966, has published widely on modern German writers and thinkers but is best known for his translations and writing on the work of Franz Kafka. His translations of Kafka's *Metamorphosis* (1972, 1996) have sold 2 million copies, and he recently translated and edited a *Norton Critical Edition* of *Kafka's Selected Stories*. Harman, who joined the Princeton faculty in 1963, is known for his work in a number of areas in philosophy, including the philosophy of language, the theory of knowledge, ethics and cognitive science. He is legendary for his great versatility, having contributed to most areas of contemporary philosophy over the course of his career. His books include *Change in View: Principles of Reasoning* (1986), *Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity* (with Judith Jarvis Thomson, 1996), *Reasoning, Meaning and Mind* (1999), *Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy* (2000) and *Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory* (with Sanjeev Kulkarni, 2007).
  • Julio Cammarota is an assistant professor in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and the Mexican-American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona. He completed a doctoral program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education in May of 2001. He has published papers on family, work, and education among Latinaos and the relationship between culture and academic achievement. He has co-authored a seminal article on applying a social justice approach to youth development practices. Currently, he is the director of the Social Justice Education Project in Tucson, Arizona.