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Julia Forbes is the Head of Museum Interpretation at the High Museum of Art. She manages the development of all materials used by visitors to learn about the Museum's permanent collection and special exhibitions, including the new Greene Family Learning Gallery. She has held education positions at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington National Cathedral, the Walters Art Museum, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. She has developed exhibitions in a team setting and participated in the creation of interactive spaces for families in a wide range of museum settings. She served as the Eastern Region Director in the Education Division of the National Art Education Association, and was honored as the Eastern Museum Educator of the Year for 1998. She has degrees in Art History and Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master's Degree from the George Washington University in Art History/Museum Training.

Chip Simone has been making photographs for more than four decades. His interest in photography began in the mid-1950s and he was formally educated in the visual arts and the history and traditions of creative photography at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1964-67. Chip studied with world-renowned photographer Harry Callahan who inspired him to develop a personal way of seeing and to let photography give meaning to his life. Chip first exhibited work in 1966 at the Hallmark gallery in New York City. In 1973 he was a founding member of NEXUS, Atlantas first photography gallery. In 1980 his work was exhibited at the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, NY. In 1982 he received a Photographers' Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1985 The French Ministry of Culture exhibited his work at the Chapelle De La Sorbonne in Paris, The Refectoir Des Jacobin in Toulouse, and The Centre Daction Culturelle in Angouleme as part of the Atlanta in France cultural exchange. In 1996 he published *On Common Ground, Photographs from the Crossroads of the New South*. Chips photographs are included in the permanent collections of Atlanta's High Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art (NY), The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, The Houston Museum of Fine Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.

Julian Cox was appointed as the new curator of photography at the High Museum of Art in April 2005. Cox comes to the High from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles where he served as associate curator in the department of photographs. He is a co-author of the critically acclaimed publication *Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs* (2003), the first catalogue of her work. He has also worked at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, England, and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. He received a Master of Philosophy degree in the history of photography from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1990, and a BA in art history from the University of Manchester, England, in 1987.

Glenn Richardson was born in Douglas County, Georgia, where he graduated from Douglas County High School in 1978. In 1981, Glenn earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Georgia State University and was a member of Georgia State University's first law school class earning his Juris Doctor in 1984. In 1985, Glenn joined the firm of Vinson & Osborne in Dallas, GA and made partner two years later. Now known as Talley, Richardson & Cable, Glenn continues to practice with the same firm. In 1989, he was appointed to serve as County Attorney for Paulding County and served in that position for 16 years. In 1996, Glenn became the first Republican from Paulding County elected to the Georgia House of Representatives since Reconstruction. In 2003, Governor Sonny Perdue hand-picked Glenn to serve as the Administration Floor Leader in the House and in November 2003, the Republican Caucus chose Glenn to serve as Minority Leader. He was elected to his seventh consecutive term in 2008 to represent House District 19. As a result of his role in securing Republican control of the House for the first time since Reconstruction, in 2005 Glenn was chosen by his colleagues to serve as the first Republican Speaker of the House in over 130 years. In 2009, he was unanimously elected to serve a third term as Speaker. Throughout his service to the state of Georgia, his colleagues, the media and many private organizations have recognized his commitment and dedication. The Republican Party of Georgia named him the 2003 Legislator of the Year. He was the recipient of the 2003 American Cancer Society Capitol Dome Award. The March of Dimes recognized him for providing extraordinary leadership in passing legislation to reduce the number of premature births in Georgia. Insider Advantage's* James Magazine* named him the 2005 Man of the Year. He was also the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Wayne Shackelford Award from the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia and the James A. Coffman Award by the Medical Association of Georgia.

Ken Jennings was born in 1974 just outside Seattle, Washington, but grew up overseas. His family spent fifteen years in Korea and Singapore, where his father worked as an attorney. His only lifeline to American pop culture during those years was TV on the Armed Forces Network, where he watched *Jeopardy!* religiously after school every afternoon. He moved back to the States to attend the University of Washington for a year, and after putting school on hold for a two-year Mormon mission in Madrid, Spain, transferred to Brigham Young University in 1996. At BYU, he double-majored in English and computer science, and graduated in 2000. Ken was working as a software engineer for a Salt Lake City health care staffing company in 2004 when he got the phone call telling him that his contestant audition had been successful and he would appear on a June game of *Jeopardy!* Much to his surprise, Ken's *Jeopardy!* appearance extended beyond a single game in June: he took advantage of a recent rule change allowing Jeopardy! champs to appear on the show indefinitely, and spent the next six months hogging America's TV screens. Before losing on the November 30 show because he didn't know enough trivia about H&R Block, Ken won 74 games and $2.52 million, both American game show records. Following his Jeopardy! streak, Ken's product endorsements have included FedEx, Microsoft Encarta, Allstate, Cingular, and even his onetime nemesis H&R Block. He speaks about the importance of learning at college campuses and corporate events, and has co-invented two trivia games: the *Can You Beat Ken?* board game from University Games, and *Quizzology*, a CD trivia game from Major Games. Ken's 2006 book *Brainiac*, about his bizarre *Jeopardy!* adventures and about the phenomenon of trivia in American culture, was a national bestseller. His latest book is *Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac*.

Penelope Prime has 30 years of experience studying and working within Chinese culture and the dynamic Chinese economy. After majoring in Chinese studies and studying Mandarin as an undergraduate, she earned a PhD in economics at the University of Michigan. She was one of the first US graduate students to do dissertation research in China after the two countries normalized relations in the late 1970s. In 2001, Prime launched the China Research Center. She is also on the Research Board of the India, China, America Institute, is one of members of the US based Secretariat of the West China Development Studies Consortium and she serves as a board member for the Georgia China Alliance. She serves on the editorial boards of China Economic Review and The Indian Journal of Economics and Business.

Khaled Hosseini is a novelist and physician from Afghanistan. He is currently living in the United States, where he is a citizen. Hosseini earned a Medical Degree from the University of California San Diego's School of Medicine in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Hosseini was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004. While in medical practice, he began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, which was published in 2003 and has become an international best seller. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. His second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns was published in May of 2007. Hosseini has been working to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan through The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The concept for The Khaled Hosseini Foundation was inspired by a trip to Afghanistan Khaled made in 2007 with the UNHCR.

From 2001 to 2008 she was executive director of the non-profit she founded: Sustainable South Bronx - where she pioneered green-collar job training and placement systems in one of the most environmentally and economically challenged parts of the US. She is now president of her own economic consulting firm, a co-host on Sundance Channel's *The Green*, and host of a new special public radio series called, *The Promised Land*.