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Evgeny Morozov is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and author of The Net Delusion.

Maxim Trudolubov is Editorial Page Editor of the Russian daily *Vedomosti* and has written about new media and Russian politics for *New York Review of Books* and *The New York Times*. He is currently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Guobin Yang is Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College and author of *The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online*.

Daniel Drezner is Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and author of *All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes*.

John Tirman is Executive Director of the MIT Center for International Studies and author of the forthcoming *The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars*.

Lisa A. Rossbacher, Ph.D., is the current president of Southern Polytechnic State University—the first woman geologist to serve as a university president in North America. A geologist, writer, professor, former Vice Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, and community leader, she is also Chair of Metro Atlanta's Cobb Chamber of Commerce, an author of several books on geology, and a Geotimes Magazine columnist.

Ida Hattemer-Higgins was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied German and Chinese literature in New York, then left the United States in 2001. In the time since, she has lived in Japan, India, and Sweden, and for the past seven years has been a student of literature in Berlin, where she has also worked as a walking-tour guide and translator. She now divides her time between Berlin and Moscow.

Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in his new book.

Ann Bocock began her broadcasting career in Richmond, Virginia in the news department. She left radio to become the Statehouse wire service reporter for United Press International. She missed broadcasting and returned to work in several markets on the East Coast - - working as news reporter, anchor and talk show host. In addition, Bocock has owned and operated radio stations in Rhode Island and South Carolina. She lives in Boca Raton.

Michele Norris, an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience, hosts NPR's newsmagazine *All Things Considered*, public radio's longest-running national program, with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block. Norris began hosting *All Things Considered* on December 9, 2002. Before coming to NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, a position she held from 1993 to 2002. As a contributing correspondent for the *Closer Look* segments on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Norris reported extensively on education, inner city issues, the nation's drug problem and poverty. Norris has also reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. Her Washington Post series about a six-year-old who lived in a crack house was reprinted in the book Ourselves Among Others, along with essays by Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Annie Dillard and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.