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Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of *Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture*, which began in 1996 as an all-volunteer zine with a circulation of three hundred and is now an internationally distributed quarterly magazine with a circulation of more than fifty thousand. Andi's writing on feminism, popular culture, and politics has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including *Ms.*, *Mother Jones*, *Utne*, *BUST*, *the Washington Post*, *the San Francisco Chronicle*, *the Women's Review of Books*, and *Hues*. Andi speaks on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities around the country, and is a frequent guest on radio talk shows. Along with Bitch co-founder Lisa Jervis, she edited *BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine*. A New Yorker by birth and temperament, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and dog.

Robin Young brings over 25 years of eclectic broadcast experience to her role as host of *Here and Now*. She is both a Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker and the past host of a cooking game show. She's been a correspondent for the Discovery Channel, CBS, ABC, and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for the *Today Show* on NBC. Robin may be best known to the Boston audience for her part in launching the popular *Evening Magazine* on WBZ-TV in the mid-70s, and for her television profiles on WNEV-TV in the mid-80's. For the past decade she's also been producing and directing documentaries, including *the Los Altos Story*, a groundbreaking look at the effect of AIDS on a Rotary Club in California, which won both the George Foster Peabody and Cable Ace awards. She's won numerous industry awards, including 5 Emmy awards for reporting, hosting, and producing.

Margaret Price is assistant professor of writing at Spelman College. Her poetry, articles, and essays have appeared in Breath and Shadow, Wordgathering, College Composition and Communication, Across the Disciplines, and Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. She is at work on a book about psychosocial disability and academic discourse.

Lynn Peril writes, edits and publishes Mystery Date: One Gal's Guide to Good Stuff, a 'zine devoted to her obsession with used books, particularly old sex and dating manuals and other detritus of popular culture. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer, Peril's column, "The Museum of Femoribilia", appears in Bust magazine. Her essays and reviews have appeared in London's Guardian newspaper, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Hermenaut, among other publications.

John is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and best-selling novelist who has worked for *The New York Times *for over 40 years. He began his career as a copy boy in 1966 and first worked as a reporter in New York, including a stint at City Hall during the mid-1970's fiscal crisis. His first foreign assignment was to West Africa, where he was based in Lagos, Nigeria. After 13 months he was thrown in jail and deported for articles unpleasing to the military government. His next assignment was in Nairobi, Kenya, where his coverage included the civil war in Rhodesia, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and the fall of Idi Amin in Uganda. John won the George Polk award for his work there. In 1979 he was based in Warsaw, Poland, where he covered the birth of the Solidarity movement and the imposition of martial law. He won the Polk award again and the Pulitzer Prize for dispatches smuggled out of the country to avoid censorship. His next assignment was in Spain where he covered the rise to power of the Socialist party. He returned to New York as deputy foreign editor and then became metropolitan editor and news editor/weekends, before taking up another stint abroad as London bureau chief. He returned from London in 1996 to become culture editor; a job he held for six years. He is now editorial director for Special Projects. He has published four novels. The first, *Neanderthal*,became an international best seller and was optioned by Steven Spielberg (the movie was never made). The second,*The Experiment*, was also a best seller. The third, *Mind Catcher*, like the first two, was a science-based adventure. His latest book is* The Darwin Conspiracy*, a work of historical fiction.

Myra MacPherson is the author of the award winning biography *All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone*. Her three previous books include the Vietnam classic *Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation*. She was a long time political writer for the *Washington Post*, has written for the *New York Times*, numerous magazines and blogs.

Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of *The Perfect Storm*, *A Death in Belmont* and *Fire*. He is a contributing editor to *Vanity Fair*, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York City.

Jessica Stern is a Lecturer in Public Policy and a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law and holds a doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard. From 1994–1995, she served as Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, where she was responsible for national security policy toward Russia and the former Soviet states and for policies to reduce the threat of nuclear smuggling and terrorism. From 1998–1999, she was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and from 1995–1996, she was a national Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is the author of the *New York Times* Notable Book *Terror in the Name of God and The Ultimate Terrorists*, as well as numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. A 2009-2010 Guggenheim Fellow, she was selected by *Time magazine* in 2001 as one of the seven thinkers whose innovative ideas “will change the world.” In her latest work, *Denial: A Memoir of Terror*, Stern investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist, and in so doing, examines the horrors of trauma and denial. Naomi Wolf calls Denial “one of the most important books I have read in a decade… brave, life-changing, and as gripping as a thriller, this should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand terrorism and anyone who has survived trauma of any kind… A tour de force.”

Leo G. Mazow is Curator of American Art and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History at The Pennsylvania State University.

Professor David M. Golove specializes in the constitutional law of foreign affairs and has written extensively in the constitutional history pertaining to that field. He is best known for a book-length article published in the *Michigan Law Review*, "Treaty-Making and the Nation: The Historical Foundations of the Nationalist Conception of the Treaty Power". In this article, Golove comprehensively considers a question of constitutional law that has been controversial from the moment of the nation's birth in 1776 and remains so today. Can the United States government, through its power to make treaties, effectively regulate subjects that would otherwise be beyond the reach of Congress's enumerated legislative powers? For example, a treaty prohibiting the death penalty? He answers yes, and in doing so has produced both a major work of legal historical scholarship and an important legal and constitutional defense of federal power. In 1995, an article by Golove in the *Harvard Law Review* (co-authored with Bruce Ackerman) dealt with another fundamental issue in foreign relations law: the undeniable fact that many international accords today are approved not through the treaty processes mandated in the U.S. Constitution, but by majority votes of both houses. His most recent work, for a book project, focuses on the relationship between the international laws of war and presidential and congressional constitutional powers. Golove received his BA from Berkeley in 1979 and has law degrees from Boalt Hall and Yale. He teaches in the fields of Constitutional Law and International Law. Professor Golove is a Co-Director of the NYU's Center on Law and Security.

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for more than 30 years. Nominated for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, he has written several books. Of special note are The Exquisite Risk, which Spirituality & Health magazine cited as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2005. Nepo is also editor of Deepening the American Dream: Reflections on the Inner Life and Spirit of Democracy. His books of poetry include Suite for the Living and Inhabiting Wonder.As a cancer survivor, Nepo is devoted to the life of inner transformation and relationship. For 18 years, he taught at the State University of New York at Albany. He now serves as a program officer for the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a nonprofit foundation devoted to fostering awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community.