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Chris Dede's fundamental interest is the expanded human capabilities for knowledge creation, sharing, and mastery that emerging technologies enable. His teaching models the use of information technology to distribute and orchestrate learning across space, time, and multiple interactive media. His research spans emerging technologies for learning, infusing technology into large-scale educational improvement initiatives, policy formulation and analysis, and leadership in educational innovation. He is currently conducting funded studies to develop and assess learning environments based on modeling and visualization, online teacher professional development, wireless mobile devices for ubiquitous computing, and multiuser virtual environments. Dede also is active in policy initiatives, including creating a widely used State Policy Framework for Assessing Educational Technology Implementation and studying the potential of developing a scalability index for educational innovations. From 2001 to 2004, he served as chair of the Learning & Teaching area at HGSE.

Margaret Honey is a former vice president of Education Development Center and former director of EDC's Center for Children and Technology. She has worked in the field of educational research since 1981. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University in developmental psychology and has spent her career conducting research on the role of media in children's learning and development. Dr. Honey is currently Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Research at Wireless Generation. She is also a project director at CCT.

Born and raised in Lowell, MA, Gerald Chertavian combined his entrepreneurial skills and his passion for working with urban young adults to found Year Up in 2000. Year Up is recognized by Fast Company and The Monitor Group as one of the top 25 organizations in the nation using business excellence to engineer social change. Gerald's commitment to working with urban youth spans more than 20 years. He has actively participated in the Big Brother mentoring program since 1985 and was recognized as one of New York's outstanding Big Brothers in 1989. The recipient of the 2003 Social Entrepreneurship Award by the Manhattan Institute and the 2005 Freedom House Archie R. Williams, Jr. Technology Award, Gerald has been featured in many publications, including The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, Business Week, Fortune Small Business, and The Christian Science Monitor. He currently serves as a Trustee of Cambridge College and Bowdoin College and is on the Board of Advisors for the Harvard Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Club and New Sector Alliance.

Clara Miller is president of the New York City-based Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a national community-development institution that provides financial and advisory services to nonprofits organizations. A member of the Community Development Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Fannie Mae Foundation's Advisory Committee on Affordable Housing Leadership, Miller she serves on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. She also serves on the boards of The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and Community Wealth Ventures, a subsidiary of Share Our Strength. She has written and spoken extensively on nonprofit capitalization, and published an article titled Hidden in Plain Sight: Understanding Nonprofit Capital Structure in *The Nonprofit Quarterly* (spring, 2003).

Bill Sargent is a NOVA consultant and author of 5 books on science and the environment. He studied plankton as a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and was the first director of the National Aquarium in Baltimore. He has taught Science Writing at Harvard University and Marine Biology at the Briarwood Field Station in Bourne. Bill has worked on the status of horseshoe crabs in Pleasant Bay. This research was used in the creation of two reserves for this strategic biomedical resource.

Earl Martin Phalen is co-founder, president, and CEO of Building Educated Leaders for Life, a non profit, community based organization dedicated to dramatically increasing the academic achievements, self esteem and life opportunities of children living in low income, urban communities. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, Phalen has earned several awards in recognition of his commitment to children and the achievements of BELL, including the President's Service Award and the 2006 and 2007 Social Capitalist Awards.

Gail Lattimore is the director of Codman Sq. Development Corp.

A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with *The Washington Post*, Klose is an award-winning author and international broadcasting executive. Prior to joining NPR in December 1998, Klose served successively as director of US International Broadcasting, overseeing the US Government's global radio and television news services (1997-98); and president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union (1994-97). Klose first joined RFE/RL in 1992 as director of Radio Liberty, broadcasting to the former Soviet Union in its national languages. Klose received a BA, cum laude, at Harvard. A former Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, he serves on the board of Independent Sector in Washington, DC. He is the author of *Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society*, winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award; and co-author of four other books.

*Marketplace* host David Brown is a motorcycle-loving, history-reading, Southern-born gentleman who believes that Alexis de Tocquevilles "Democracy in America" should be required reading for all citizens. An enigmatic and multifaceted individual, he would love to have had the opportunity to interview T.E. Lawrence, and believes that journalists have the honor and heavy responsibility of writing the first draft of history. Brown is also one of public radio's most highly respected and broadly experienced hosts and producers. He joined *Marketplace* in the fall of 2000 as senior producer before being named host in September, 2003. Brown has worked extensively in broadcasting over the last 20 years. He anchored the live hour-long daily international news program Monitor Radio for PRI from 1993-1997. Prior to that, he served as Washington bureau chief and chief national correspondent for Monitor Radio and Monitor Television, as Monitor Radio's London correspondent, and as program producer of Monitor Radio's Daily Edition. In 1989, he served as executive producer of CalNet, the California Public Radio News Network.