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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.

Renee Montagne is host of NPR's Morning Edition, the most widely heard broadcast news program in the United States. Since 2004, she has been broadcasting from NPR West in Culver City, California, with cohost Steve Inskeep in Washington. Over the years, Montagne has done thousands of interviews on a wide range of topics: Kurt Vonnegut on how he transformed surviving the WWII firebombing of Dresden into the novel Slaughterhouse Five; National Guardsmen on how they handle the holidays in Iraq; Paul McCartney on singing the old songs; a Hollywood historian on how the famous hillside sign came to be; Toni Morrison on the dreams and memories she turned into novels; and Bud Montagne, Renee's father, remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor. In addition to the duPont Columbia Award, Montagne has been honored by the Overseas Press Club for her coverage of Afghanistan, and by the National Association of Black Journalists for a series on Black musicians going to war. She earned a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Her career includes serving as a fellow at the University of Southern California with the National Arts Journalism Program (currently based at Columbia University), and teaching broadcast writing at New York University's Graduate Department of Journalism.

A towering figure in the fields of Global Mission, African Christianity and Global Pentecostalism, Dr. Kalu began a distinguished teaching career at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1974, leading to a number of teaching and lecturing engagements at Harvard University, Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, South Korea, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, University of Toronto and several other colleges and universities. A prolific writer on a wide range of subjects, Kalu has authored or edited 16 published books including *Power, Poverty and Prayer: The Challenges of Poverty and Pluralism in African Christianity, 1960-1996*, *African Christianity: An African Story, and African Pentecostalism: An Introduction*, already regarded by many as the seminal work of its kind. Dr. Kalu was not only a world-class scholar but also a man of deep Christian faith and conviction. For many years he served as an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church in his home country of Nigeria and held various national leadership positions in the denomination including membership on the General Assembly Board of Faith and Order. As a resident of Chicago, Dr. Kalu was a member of Progressive Community Center, The Peoples Church, where he worshiped regularly and taught adult education classes.