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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.

Dr. Arlene Ackerman has served in public education for more than 30 years and is currently serving as Superintendent Emeritus, San Francisco Unified School District until 2006. She arrived in San Francisco in 2000 and under her leadership, the district has thrived experiencing five consecutive years of improved achievement for all groups of students while also holding the distinction of the highest performing large urban school district in the state of California for the last two years. In fall 2006, Dr. Ackerman joined the staff at Columbia University's Teachers College holding the prestigious Christian A. Johnson endowed chair and serving as a professor of practice. Dr. Ackerman has received numerous honors and awards, including appointments to the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the College Board's Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges, and the National Teaching Commission. Academic awards include Uniquely University City Award for Outstanding Service, Iota Lambda Sorority's Apple for the Teacher Award, Harris Stowe Teachers College's Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Harvard Urban Superintendents Program's McDonnell Douglas Fellowship. Dr. Ackerman received her doctorate in administration, planning and social policy through the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Urban Superintendents Program. She holds a Master of Arts in Education from Harvard University, a Master of Arts in Educational Administration and Policy from Washington University, St. Louis, MO and a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from Harris Stowe Teachers College.

Since its inception in 1999, Howard Burton has led the development of Perimeter Institute, an international centre of fundamental theoretical physics research with a strong educational outreach mandate. The Institute's present research orientation is focused on quantum information theory, foundations of quantum theory, superstring theory and quantum gravity and is currently establishing additional research groups in cosmology and particle physics. In the capacity of executive director, reporting to the Board and interacting with the Scientific Advisory Committee, Howard oversees all aspects of the research and outreach mandates. In addition, he is responsible for recruiting top thinkers from around the world to Waterloo - where they are able to pursue their scientific research in a dynamic, co-operative atmosphere and push our current understanding of space, time, matter and information. Howard initiated the educational outreach initiatives including popular monthly public lectures with average audiences of 500+, the International Summer School for Young Physicists which attracts high school students from around the world, the annual Einstein Plus National Teachers' Workshop, as well as numerous student and teacher seminars held on location across the country. With the move into the Institute's new, award winning building, the Outreach program has expanded to include Event Horizons, an ambitious agenda of top quality musical and cultural events throughout the arts and sciences that appeal to an even broader community. Over the last few months, Howard has appeared on CBC Radio and Television, CTV News, and TVOntario in addition to various international media including CNN International. He contributed a regular column to *The Kitchener-Waterloo Record* and has been published in various other media, including a recent article in *Canadian Architect*.

Patricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia, and later taught in Norfolk, Virginia, and New York City. She has also served as a high-school guidance counselor. She has been a lecturer and assistant professor at Indiana University, a visiting professor at Northern Michigan University, and a professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1972-73 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She has served as dean of the Radcliffe Institute and as vice president of Radcliffe College. She joined the Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty in 1974 and served as dean from 1982 to 1991. She served as president of the Spencer Foundation in Chicago from 1991 to 2000. Graham holds a bachelor's degree with highest distinction from Purdue University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and she has received several honorary degrees.

Donna San Antonio works, studies, writes, and lives in a way that combines multiple fields. Her initial training in sociology and education led to a participant-observation research project on alternative education as it was practiced in 10 schools in eight states. As a community organizer for a 1970s antipoverty program, she became committed to civil rights and economic justice. She spent 10 years in mostly middle-school classrooms teaching social studies, language arts, and health. She returned to school to be trained as a guidance counselor and focused her study in cross-cultural counseling. San Antonio is the founder and executive director of the Appalachian Mountain Teen Project, a rural youth and community development program in central New Hampshire. She currently works in school, community, home, and wilderness settings with youth and families who have experienced economic hardship, trauma, and loss. In this program, she has designed, implemented, and evaluated projects in youth-to-youth mentoring, adventure-based counseling, parent support and education, school-based violence prevention, and projects for girls and women. She finds inspiration and hope in the creativity and courage she witnesses as the teens and families she knows face the adversarial conditions of their lives. San Antonio's practical experience and research interests lie in these areas: rural education, community development, social class and educational equity, qualitative research with adolescents, and experiential education.

Arthur R. Miller is a University Professor on the faculty of the New York University School of Law and the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. From 1971- 2007, Professor Miller taught at the Harvard Law School where he was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his law degree from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he had practiced law in New York City and taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. Among lawyers, he is nationally known for his work on court procedure, a subject on which he has authored or co-authored more than forty books. The general public, however, knows him for his work in the field of the right of privacy, a subject on which he has written, testified, debated, and helped formulate legislation. His book The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers (1971) has been extremely influential.

Gary Horowitz is a Professor of Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and continued on his postdoctoral research at UCSB and mathematical Institute at Oxford. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced study at Princeton before joining the faculty at UCSB. Professor Horowitz is a leading expert on gravitational physics. His research is mostly focused on questions involving gravity under the most extreme conditions. These include the big bang in cosmology and the spacetime inside black holes. His research also involves gravitational aspects of string theory including black holes in higher dimensions, quantum properties of black holes, and especially quantum descriptions of singularities.

John Stachel did his doctoral work on general relativity. He was an instructor of Physics at Lehigh University from 1959 to 1961 and the University of Pittsburgh from 1961 to 1962, and Research Associate in Physics at the latter school from 1962 to 1964. Since then, he has been a member of the Physics Department of Boston University. He also directs the Boston University Center for Einstein Studies, which has sponsored conferences on the history of general relativity and Einstein's early years; and co-edits (with Don Howard) the Center's series of Einstein Studies, eleven volumes of which have been published, two directly concerned with the history of general relativity.

Joe Savage, a partner in the firm's Litigation Group, concentrates his practice on white collar criminal defense, governmental investigations work and complex civil litigation. His practice involves representing individuals and companies in a wide variety of fraud, securities, health care, tax, public corruption, environmental and other investigations by federal, state and local law enforcement and government regulators as well as representing companies and individuals in civil litigation, especially complex commercial disputes. Mr. Savage has experience in litigating complex white collar criminal matters including fraud, tax, securities, healthcare, RICO, health and safety act, money laundering and public corruption matters. He has tried approximately 50 cases in U.S. District Courts in Massachusetts, New York, West Virginia, Missouri and the District of Columbia. Mr. Savage has also handled sophisticated trade secret, Lanham Act, RICO, consumer fraud, business tort and other civil litigation, including multi-district class action litigation. Mr. Savage also counsels clients on establishing compliance programs, especially in the high tech, biotech, and health care fields. In 2008, Mr. Savage was appointed to the Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on Ethics Reform, and also was selected to serve in the Boston Bar Association's Task Force on Preventing Wrongful Convictions. Mr. Savage has been selected for inclusion in *Boston Magazine*: Top Ten Massachusetts Super Lawyers, *Chambers USA*: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers, International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, and The Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense) and 2007 Massachusetts Lawyer of the Year, Frank J. Murray Inn of Court.

Sister Helen Prejean is the author of the best selling book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, published by Random House in 1993 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The book is a detailed study of the death penalty in the United States. It also tells the true story of a friendly, down to earth nun who brought love to a death row killer, and to the families of his victims.

Jeanne Shaheen is a leader committed to strengthening New Hampshire middle class families and small businesses, becoming the first woman elected Governor of New Hampshire in 1996. After attending public schools, Jeanne received a bachelor's degree from Shippensburg University and a master's degree from the University of Mississippi. Jeanne's focus on the economy led to the creation of nearly 67,000 new jobs during her six years as Governor and the third-highest high tech employment in the nation. Governor Shaheen signed into law legislation creating a more favorable tax environment for venture capital, encouraging investment in start-up small businesses. Understanding that for New Hampshire's middle class to prosper we must be able to compete in an increasingly global economy, she was the first New Hampshire Governor to lead a trade mission outside of North America. Governor Shaheen also brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the Clean Power Act, first-in-the-nation legislation reducing power plant emissions, and the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program, which has helped preserve 250,000 acres of open space and 88 historic places. Energy efficiency programs initiated by the Shaheen administration have saved New Hampshire families and businesses almost $400 million. Jeanne has been involved in all levels of New Hampshire life. She has taught in a New Hampshire high school. She was chair of Madbury's zoning board and co-chair of the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women. She was the co-founder of Somersworth's International Children's Festival and director of two successful New Hampshire presidential primary campaigns. In 2005 she took on the challenge of forging a new generation of public leaders when she became the Director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. Unwilling to sit back while Washington betrays middle class families, Jeanne left the Institute of Politics in September 2007 to run for the United States Senate.