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Television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis is a native Washingtonian and an active member of the area's cultural community. Davis is the creator and host of "Millennium of Music," a program dedicated to music from the thousand years before Bach. The program is carried by more than 100 public radio stations nationwide. He has been host and moderator of WETA TV 26's Emmy Award-winning weekly arts discussion program, "Around Town," since its inception in 1986. Davis can also be heard on Vox, XM Satellite Radio's opera and classical vocal music channel. His education in literature and art history at both Duke University and American University and his broad knowledge of and participation in the arts make him a well-respected and visible member of Washington's cultural community. He is a regular lecturer at a variety of area seminars and performances, including concerts with the Folger Consort, the Baltimore Consort, the Early Music Series at the University of Maryland, the Dumbarton Oaks Concert Series and the Smithsonian Early Music Series.

A.E. Hotchner is an American author and graduate of Washington University (LA and JD, 1940) who briefly practiced law in St. Louis. In 1942 he joined the United States Air Force and directed the London and Paris bureau of The Air Force Magazine from 1946 to 1948. After a period of freelance work in Paris from 1949 to 1950, Hotchner went to work for Cosmopolitan magazine as a feature writer from 1950 until 1954. He then returned to serious freelancing and sold stories and articles to well circulated magazines. Hotchner later wrote for television and the stage. A full length novel, The Dangerous American, was published in 1958, and his plays such as The White House were produced in New York. In 1955, he began various adaptations for stage and television of work by Ernest Hemingway. The two were friends until Hemingway's death in 1961. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner's controversial memoir, was published in 1966 by Random House.

Robert P. Gittens is an attorney who serves as Vice President for Public Affairs at Northeastern University. His extensive public sector experience includes service as Cabinet Secretary for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, First Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County, Chairman of the Massachusetts Parole Board, and Deputy Chief Legal Counsel to the Office of the Governors Legal Counsel. Mr. Gittens is a member of the Court Management Advisory Board.

Theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He is the 1994 recipient of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Moses is an American educator and civil rights activist, known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Since 1982 Moses has developed the nationwide Algebra Project in the United States. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship and other awards for this work, which emphasizes teaching algebra skills to minority students based on broad-based community organizing and collaboration with parents, teachers and students. Moses earned a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard, and received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions.

Elizabeth Deane is executive producer of *Latin Music USA*, PBS’s 4-part series premiering on October 12. As executive producer of PBS’s ten-part musical history *Rock & Roll*, she won the Peabody Award and the ASCAP Award for Excellence in Music Programming. The series was also nominated for an Emmy and for the BAFTA, Britain’s most prestigious television award. Deane, whose professional interests range from music to history and politics, served as executive producer for *The Kennedys* and *Nixon*, two presidential profiles for the history series American Experience which remain among the most-watched special programs in PBS history. Her recent films include *John & Abigail Adams* (2006) and *Reconstruction: The Second Civil War* (2004). Before that, she produced numerous award-winning PBS projects, including *Vietnam: A Television History*. Her numerous awards include four George Foster Peabody Awards, a duPont Columbia award, an Emmy, a Writers' Guild Award, a Gold Medal from Worldfest Houston, the Japan Prize, the Erik Barnouw Award of the Organization of American Historians, and Britain's Broadcasting Press Guild award.

Author of *Complicity: How The North Promoted, Prolonged, And Profited From Slavery*. Anne Farrow is a veteran journalists for *The Hartford Courant*, the country's oldest newspaper in continuous publication.