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Timothy Patrick McCarthy is a scholar and activist who teaches at Harvard University. After graduating with honors from Harvard, Dr. McCarthy went on to receive his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University. He is a specialist on the history of American race relations and civil rights, democratic social movements, political rhetoric, and media culture. McCarthy is the co-editor of two books, *The Radical Reader* (2003) and *Prophets of Protest* (2006), both of which were published by *The New Press*. An award-winning teacher and public servant, Dr. McCarthy is the Academic Director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities in Dorchester, MA, and the Founding Director of Harvard's Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Project, where he brings students down South each year to help rebuild African-American churches that have been burned in arson attacks. He lectures widely across the country, and is a frequent media commentator.

Professor Peek Schacht knows the world and its workings quite well. She has had a distinguished career in both political and corporate communication and has influenced and experienced Washington and big business from the top-most levels. In 1979, she was national press secretary and communications director for President Jimmy Carter's re-election committee. In the 1980s, she was director of communications for the U.S. Senate Democratic Policy Committee. She later had a 12-year tenure as VP for communications and public affairs strategy for the Coca-Cola Company. Professor Peek Schacht brings this uniquely keen view to shaping the undergraduate program curriculum as well as her Leadership class. "There has been such a renewed interest in social advocacy and political leadership among this generation," she says. "Our program turns their wonderful idealism into a profession that can impact lives."

J. Gregory Payne is an Associate Professor in Emerson College's Department of Communication Studies. He is Director of the Center for Ethics in Political and Health Communication, which he co-founded in 1996. Payne also started and currently advises the Emerson chapter of the Communications, Politics and Law Association which hosts numerous guest speakers, events and trips for students throughout the course of each academic year.

Geeta Rao Gupta, PhD, is president of the International Center for Research on Women, or ICRW, a leading global authority on women's role in development, and a passionate advocate for women's empowerment and the protection and fulfillment of women's human rights. She has worked at ICRW as consultant, researcher, and officer since 1988, and has headed the private, non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. since 1997. Rao Gupta is an internationally renowned expert on women and AIDS, and is frequently consulted on issues related to AIDS prevention and women's vulnerability to HIV. She has been recognized for her commitment to quality research, her dedication to educating policy makers and the public on the gender-related aspects of HIV/AIDS, and her abiding commitment and overall contributions to the field. Rao Gupta serves on the advisory boards for the Moriah Fund and the Nike Foundation, has served as an advisor to the UNAIDS Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, and as co-chair of the U.N. Millennium Project's Task Force on promoting gender equality and empowering women. Rao Gupta has a PhD in social psychology from Bangalore University, a master of philosophy degree from the University of Delhi, and both a master's and bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Delhi.

Bev Edgehill is The President and CEO of The Partnership, Inc. Previously she was Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness, at Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA. For twenty years, she has served in various management and organization development roles, applying program planning, and adult and group learning practices in the public sector, retail, high technology, insurance and financial services industries. Bev has been a speaker on leadership and women's career development topics at several national conferences. She holds an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts, and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests are related to career women and their approach to learning and achieving career success.

Rey Ramsey is CEO of One Economy Corporation which brings broadband into the homes of low income families, and trains and employs youth to enhance communities' technological capacity. Ramsey led the organization's growth from four employees working in basement to a global organization that has taken root on four continents. Since 2000, One Economy has helped bring broadband access into the homes of over 300,000 low income Americans. Ramsey is the author, with Ben Hecht, of the book ManagingNonprofits.org: Dynamic Management for the Digital Age.

James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author *of The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind*, *Shamans*, *Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society* and *The Shakespeare Chronicles*, a novel about the search for the true author of Shakespeare's works. He is the co-author of *Bound By Law* (Duke U.P. 2008), an educational comic book on fair use, and is the editor of *Critical Legal Studies *(Dartmouth/NYU Press (1994), *Collected Papers on the Public Domain* (Duke: L&CP 2003), and the co-editor of *Cultural Environmentalism @ 10* (with Larry Lessig.) In 2003 he won the World Technology Award for Law for his work on the "intellectual ecology" of the public domain and on the new "enclosure movement" that threatens it; (a disappointing amount of which was foretold in his 1996 New York Times article on the subject.) His essays include "The Second Enclosure Movement", a study of the economic rhetoric of price discrimination in digital commerce, and a "Manifesto" on WIPO. His shorter pieces include "Missing the Point on Microsoft", a speech to the Federalist Society called "Conservatives and Intellectual Property", and numerous newspaper articles on law, technology and culture. He currently writes as an online columnist for the Financial Times' New Economy Policy Forum. Professor Boyle teaches Intellectual Property, the Constitution in Cyberspace, Law and Literature, Jurisprudence, and Torts. He was one of the original board members of Creative Commons, which works to facilitate the free availability of art, scholarship, and cultural materials by developing innovative, machine-readable licenses that individuals and institutions can attach to their work. He served as a board member from 2002 until 2009, the last year as Chairman of the board. He was also a co-founder of Science Commons, which aims to expand the Creative Commons mission into the realm of scientific and technical data and of ccLearn, which works to promote the development and use of open educational resources. He is a member of the academic advisory board of Public Knowledge. In 2006 he received the Duke Bar Association Distinguished Teaching Award.

Previously Associate Director of the Berkman Center, Jake Shapiro now oversees various media projects. Jake is executive director of The Public Radio Exchange, a nonprofit online clearinghouse and community site for audio content. Jake has been producer and director of business development for Lydon McGrath Inc.; he was a producer for *The Connection with Christopher Lydon*- a nationally syndicated public radio talk show. He also has extensive experience in both research and web development at Harvard; among other endeavors, Jake developed web resources for the Davis Center for Russian Studies, the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, and the Harvard Central Asia Forum. He also spent two years in Moscow, Russia as program coordinator of the Moscow Institute for Advanced Studies. Jake is co-founder of L-Shaped Records, guitarist for the local rock band Two Ton Shoe, and studio cellist on many independent and major label recordings. Jake graduated from Harvard in 1993, majoring in History and Literature; he is a fluent Russian speaker, plays guitar and cello, and lives in Brighton with his wife Elena Gorodenskaya.

Bill Buzenberg became executive director of the Center for Public Integrity in December 2006. He has been a journalist and news executive at newspapers and in public radio for more than 35 years. Most recently, as senior vice president of news at American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio, Buzenberg launched such programming initiatives as American RadioWorks.

Peter is co-founder of the OneWorld Network and director for the OneWorld International Foundation. Thanks to his innovative use of all forms of media, his powerful beliefs in global social justice and his passion for gadgets, OneWorld has become cutting edge in harnessing media technology to benefit people who need it most. During 20 years as a BBC radio and TV producer, Peter helped push the corporation into the digital era and created groundbreaking documentaries like *Everyman and Global repor*t, which won the United Nations Association Peace Prize. He founded and edited the acclaimed Domesday project in 1983, bringing together millions of UK citizens to produce an interactive record of Great Britain. He created the award-winning Interactive Television Unit in 1986, and became its chair when it floated as the MultiMedia Corporation. In February 2004, he won a Special Lifetime Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Interactive Awards for his contribution to the digital industry. Peter is a policy advisor to governments and international bodies on the use of information and communications technology for global sustainable development. And he is a trustee of the charity Accenture Development Partnerships. Peter and Anuradha launched OneWorld from their home in 1995. It has grown into a global network connecting people around the world who support human rights and sustainable development.