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Organic farmer and businessman who is building the Farmer's Diner in Barre, VT into a national model for economically viable and environmentally sound restaurants that support local family farms.

Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe, and was the first tenured woman in the Princeton University physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard University.

Robert Pozen is an economist who over the years has worked as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, as the head of Fidelity Investments, and on several political projects for Republicans, including US President George W. Bush's 2001 Social Security commission. He currently chairs MFS Investment Management, a Boston based fund management company.

Richard Bushman received his AB, AM, and PhD degrees from Harvard University, where he studied with distinguished early American historian Bernard Bailyn. Bushman taught at Harvard, Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware before joining the history faculty at Columbia. During the 2007-08 academic year, Bushman served as Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University and held a Huntington Library fellowship. Bushman is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He interrupted his undergraduate studies at Harvard to serve as a missionary in New England and Atlantic Canada, and he has held various lay positions within the Mormon Church, including Seminary teacher, bishop, stake president, and Stake Patriarch.

**Professor Eliga H. Gould** has taught at University of New Hampshire since 1992. His books include *The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution* (2000), which won the Jamestown Prize from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and *Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World* (2005), co-edited with Peter Onuf. In 2004, the American Society for Legal History named his article "Zones of Law, Zones of Violence: The Legal Geography of the British Atlantic, circa 1772", *William and Mary Quarterly* (2003), co-winner of the Sutherland Prize for best article in English legal history.

Professor of History and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies. Professor Calloway first taught at the College of Ripon and York, St John in England. After moving to the United States, he taught high school in Springfield, Vermont, served for two years as associate director and editor of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. He has been associated with the Native American Studies program since 1990 when he first came to Dartmouth as a visiting professor. He became a permanent member of the faculty in 1995. Professor Calloway serves as the President of the American Society for Ethnohistory, 2007-08.

Pamela Wilkinson Fox is a preservation consultant and author of the award winning Farm Town to Suburb: The History and Architecture of Weston, Massachusetts, 1830-1980. Her career has included work for the Boston Landmarks Commission and Rhode Island Historical Society. She is a consultant to the Weston Historical Commission, a member of Weston's Planning Board, Community Preservation Committee, and Land Trust, and is president of the Weston Historical Society.

Renée Loth is an opinion columnist for The Boston Globe. Loth has been a presidential campaign reporter, political editor, and editor of the Globe’s editorial page, where for nine years she was the highest-ranking woman at the newspaper. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and was twice a judge for the Pulitzer prizes in journalism. Through traveling awards and fellowships, she has reported from 14 countries.

Jonathan Spector is a Boston-based pediatrician, and member of the Section on International Child Health, who has actively translated his global child health interests into clinical practice with Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders. Dr. Spector first traveled to the field with Doctors Without Borders in the fall of 2002, immediately following completion of his residency. Doctors Without Borders assumed a lead role in the major international relief effort that rapidly ensued. Dr. Spector worked in Central Angola, in the town of Bailundo, at a large nutritional rehabilitation center treating approximately 500 children at any given time. This Therapeutic Feeding Center (TFC) approach provides severely malnourished children with their full nutritional requirements and medical support. The TFC offers two levels of care: an intensive 24-hour treatment area for initial management of the complications of malnutrition, and a day unit where nutritional treatment continues and medical follow-up is administered. In his four months on mission, Dr. Spector also cared for children suffering from a variety of tropical illnesses including malaria, measles, tuberculosis, scurvy, and filariasis. Dr. Spector then returned to the field with Doctors Without Borders last summer, this time to West Darfur, Sudan. The political context was different, but health effects on the pediatric population were strikingly similar. Extreme living conditions and chronic food insecurity had led to high rates of malnutrition, diarrhea, and respiratory infections. Dr. Spector again worked in a TFC and pediatric ward; daily census averaged 100 children with thirty discharges and new admissions each week. As is the case with many relief projects abroad, Dr. Spector was joined by only a few internationals and worked primarily with a large number of local staff consisting of physicians, nurses, nutritionists, cooks, drivers, cleaners, and watchmen. The meaningful personal relationships that he developed with patients, fellow staff, and the community-at-large conferred an additional sense of import to the work he was doing.

Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body of the Children's Defense Fund. For two years she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University. Mrs. Edelman served on the Board of Trustees of Spelman College which she chaired from 1976 to 1987 and was the first woman elected by alumni as a member of the Yale University Corporation on which she served from 1971 to 1977. She has received many honorary degrees and awards including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship.

Nanda Chitre, Communications Director for Enough, has worked in the executive and legislative branches of the US government, in national public-policy and political campaigns, as a consultant to international campaigns and television and Hollywood programs, and as a visiting lecturer at Tufts University. She was deputy director for Rx for Child Survival, part of the Rx for Survival A Global Health Challenge project, which included a six-hour documentary, a multimedia initiative, and a social impact campaign, produced by WGBH Boston with funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She served as Assistant Spokesperson for the United States Department of State and as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary in the White House until 2001. Chitre worked in both Clinton-Gore presidential campaigns and the Presidential Transition. Her entertainment writing includes the show The West Wing and consulting for films in development. She also worked at US Department of Justice in the Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs, and for the Judiciary Committee of the US Senate. Ms. Chitre is an attorney admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.