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Joy Goodman is an enthusiastic and creative educator with 35 years of teaching experience. After participating in an intensive professional public speaking course in 1991, Joy discovered a passion for self-expression that would greatly influence her life's work. She was inspired to apply her newfound speaking skills by creating an original public speaking program at Morningside Elementary School. Joy's program enabled her students to face their fears, decrease shyness, and increase their confidence and self-esteem. The program was an unprecedented success that benefitted more than 1,000 students.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1981, making her the first woman to serve on the Court. She retired in 2006. She is the author of *Lazy B*, a memoir she wrote with her borther of their childhood. She is also the author of several chilren's books. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University.

Justice David Souter was nominated to the Supreme Court by President George Bush in 1990 and he served until his retirement in June 2009. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Linda Greenhouse reported on the Supreme Court for *The New York Times* for 20 years, and currently writes a bieweekly column on law. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. She is now a Senior Research Scholar in Law, the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She received her undergraduate degree from Radcliffe College and a Master of Studies in Law from Yale University

For 30 years Fernando Manzano has dedicated himself to the protection and restoration of a beautiful, but endangered species: the Tortuga Lora. Born and raised on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, Fernando has been interested in sea turtles since he was a kid. When he was a child in Tecolutla, it was a tradition in the village to kill sea turtles for their meat and to (mistakenly) use the eggs as an aphrodisiac. This was upsetting to Fernando. One day he saw a Jacques Cousteau documentary about a sea turtle protection program and it inspired him to dedicate his life to helping his own beloved Loras. He has established the non-profit organization Grupo Ecologista Vida Milenaria A.C. whose mission is to protect the Tortuga Lora and to educate the public. Papa Tortuga (“Father Turtle”) is his nickname now. Everyone in the small town of Tecolutla knows him and they seem to appreciate his efforts. Papa Tortuga is also a husband and the father of two. Protecting the turtles is his full time job, but he doesn’t do it for the paycheck – because there isn’t one! Fernando supports himself and his family by renting tent space on his beachfront yard and selling sea-turtle souvenirs. With limited private donations and the help of volunteers he is making a difference.

Soyica Colbert, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. Her interests are African America drama, literature, performance, and culture, women and gender studies. Currently Colbert is working on two book projects. The first entitled Black Theatrical Reparations argues for the centrality of black performance traditions expressed in the cakewalking, preaching, hustling, migrating, practicing rituals, and singing the blues and gospel to African American literature. The second entitled Black Movements: Performance, Politics, and Migration examines multiple meanings of movement in black literature and cultural productions to bring studies of black diaspora into conversation with theorizations of black performance. She has published articles on James Baldwin, Alice Childress, and August Wilson.

David Autor is Professor of Economics at MIT and Editor-in-Chief of *The Journal of Economic Perspectives*.

Thomas A. Kochan is George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at MIT and author of *Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families’ Agenda for America*.

Richard Locke is the Head of the MIT Political Science Department and outgoing Deputy Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the coauthor of *Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market*.

Hassan Naqvi is part of the Licensing group at Cleveland Clinic Innovations, and is responsible for the evaluation, protection and commercialization of biotechnology innovations across multiple specialties. He manages an extensive portfolio of technologies in the molecular biology space, working closely with the Clinic’s Genomic Medicine Institute and the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute. Mr. Naqvi also oversees license compliance and enforcement issues for CC Innovations. He is an active member of the Association of University Technology Managers, a national professional society of technology licensing professionals. Mr. Naqvi earned his PhD in Cell and Molecular biology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, with a focus on Immunology. His post doctoral investigations into the feasibility of utilizing algae lipids as a fuel source led to the formation of OFAT, a Joint Venture between the University of Texas at Austin and Organic Fuels Inc., of Houston, Texas. In addition, he worked with a small chemical company developing novel fluorescent indicators for measuring calcium and sodium levels in living cells.

Craig A. Nard is the Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law and the founding director of the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy, and Principal Advisor to the Center for Studies and Research in Intellectual Property in Calcutta, India. Prof. Nard practiced intellectual property law in Dallas, Texas prior to becoming the Julius Silver Fellow in Law, Science, and Technology at Columbia University School of Law. After his fellowship, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. for the Honorable Helen W. Nies, and then the Honorable Giles S. Rich. Prof. Nard has published in various law reviews, including the Northwestern Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Review of Law & Economics, William & Mary Law Review, and the Wake Forest Law Review. He is also the author of the patent law casebook, The Law of Patents (Aspen Publishers 2008), Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law, (Kluwer Law International 2006) (with Halpern and Port) and The Law of Intellectual Property (Aspen Publishing) (2005) (with Madison and Barnes). Craig served as member of the Northern District of California Advisory Committee on Model Patent Jury Instructions appointed by the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte of the Northern District of California. He is licensed to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office and is a member of the Texas bar. He teaches in the areas of patent law and intellectual property. Prof. Nard received his B.A. in from Washington & Jefferson (1987), his J.D. from Capital (1990), and his LL.M. from Columbia (1995). Bratislav Stankovic,

Dr. Bratislav Stankovic strives to foster improved understanding of the issues at the intersection of law, science, politics, and ethics through a variety of means, including traditional publications, as well as providing input to government and international organizations. He has made particular contributions in the areas of international property rights and plant space biology, and in policy issues involving biotechnology. He holds a PhD degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, and a JD degree from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison. Dr. Stankovic is a registered patent attorney. He is admitted to practice law in Illinois and in Wisconsin, is a Professor of Law at the University American College Skopje, teaches Patent Law at Loyola University Chicago, and has practiced at one of the largest IP law firms in the USA, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione in Chicago. He is a Science and Technology Advisor to the President of Macedonia Dr. Gjorge Ivanov. He is a recipient of two Fulbright Scholarships for Intellectual Property Law. Dr. Stankovic writes and teaches on patent law, biotechnology law, bioethics, law and medicine, molecular and space biology. He also has over 20 years of experience as a scientist, including 4 years as a Chief Scientist at the NASA‐funded Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics, University of Wisconsin‐Madison, where he was the principal investigator for several experiments on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.