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Joe McEttrick has been a member of the Suffolk University Law School faculty since 1971. He has taught contracts, consumer law, equitable remedies, and business associations. He is a member of the Massachusetts bar, and holds bachelor's and law degrees from Boston College. He holds a master's in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was director of the Rappaport Honors Program in Law and Public Policy (2004-2007). His research includes conducting Massachusetts oral political history interviews for the J. Joseph Moakley Archives at Suffolk University Law School. McEttrick served on the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission, and the Massachusetts Small Loans Regulatory Board. For 25 years he has been active in local government, having served as an elected member of the Milton Board of Selectmen and Milton School Committee. He has done commentary on Massachusetts and Federal election law in Boston-area print and electronic media. He has commented on state constitutional issues decided by the General Court and the Supreme Judicial Court. In a collaboration between The Bostonian Society and Suffolk University Law School, McEttrick produced in 1999 a re-enactment entitled *Rex v. Wemms: The Boston Massacre Trial*. The reenactment was presented in Faneuil Hall on Law Day 1999 in honor of the dedication of the Law School's new building on Tremont Street, Sargent Hall. Ever since, McEttrick has been a student and admirer of John Adams. McEttrick's other historical interests include the history of the Irish in Roxbury, and the impact of World War II and post-war changes on Boston's Irish-Americans.

Kurt Opsahl is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation focusing on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on *Kelly v. Arribasoft*, *MGM v. Grokster*, and *CoStar v. LoopNet*. For his work responding to government subpoenas, Opsahl is proud to have been called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice. Prior to bPerkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz. Opsahl co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook. In 2007, Opsahl was named as one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine for his work on the *O'Grady v. Superior Court* appeal.

Frank Warren is a small business owner who started PostSecret.com as a community art project. Since November 2004 Warren has received more than 150,000 anonymous postcards. The website won two Webby Awards in 2006 and this year was named Weblog of the Year at the Seventh Annual Weblog Awards. The PostSecret project also received a special award from the National Mental Health Association for raising awareness and funds for suicide prevention. Warren lives in Germantown, Maryland, with his wife and daughter.

A five-time W.C. Handy "Best Blues Instrumentalist - Piano" award nominee, Henry Butler knows no limitations. Although blinded by glaucoma since birth, Butler is also a world class photographer with his work displayed at exhibitions throughout the United States. Playing piano since the age of six, Butler is a master of musical diversity. Combining the percussive jazz piano playing of McCoy Tyner and the New Orleans style playing of Professor Longhair through his classically-trained wizardry, Butler continues to craft a sound uniquely his own. A rich amalgam of jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, R&B and blues influences, his music is as excitingly eclectic as that of his New Orleans birthplace. Mastering baritone horn, valve trombone and drums, in addition to the piano, at the Louisiana State School for the Blind in Baton Rouge, as a youngster, Butler began formal vocal training in the eleventh grade. He went on to sing German lieder, French and Italian art songs and operatic arias at Southern and Michigan State Universities, earning a Masters degree in vocal music. He has taught music workshops throughout the country and initiated a number of different educational projects, including a residential jazz camp at Missouri State School for the Blind and a program for blind and visually impaired students at the University of New Orleans.

John Hockenberry is a three-time Peabody Award winner, four-time Emmy award winner and former Dateline NBC correspondent. John has broad experience as a journalist and commentator for more than two decades. He has reported from all over the world, in virtually every medium, having anchored programs for network, cable and radio. Hockenberry was responsible for two of the most innovative programs to air on MSNBC. The program *Hockenberry* was a smart provocative news interview program which broadcast live from the war in Kosovo in 1999, while *Edgewise* was a unique blend of raw documentary filmaking and interviews with newsmakers passionate about politics and culture. Hockenberry joined NBC as a correspondent for *Dateline NBC* in January 1996 after a 15-year career in broadcast news at both National Public Radio and ABC News. Hockenberry's reporting for *Dateline NBC* earned him three Emmys, an Edward R. Murrow award and a Casey Medal. His most prominent Dateline NBC reports include an hour-long documentary on the often-fatal tragedy of the medically uninsured, an emotionally gripping portrait of a young schizophrenic trying to live on his own, and extensive reporting in the aftermath of September 11th. John currently hosts *The Takeaway*, a multi-media radio program on Public Radio International

Tamara Gould has worked in public media for the last 15 years, most recently as the vice president of Distribution for the Independent Television Service (ITVS) where she oversees domestic distribution of international documentaries from around the world through the ITVS International Media Development Fund (IMDF). Tamara is involved in all aspects of bringing international programs to US audiences through broadcast and digital outlets. Tamara also is supervising producer of the ITVS *True Stories and Global Voices* series, and runs the ITVS International Production unit. She also heads up the Independent Digital Distribution Lab in partnership with PBS. Previously, Tamara served as executive producer for KQED Television in San Francisco, where she managed production of numerous local and national series including: *Independent View*, *SPARK*, and *This Week in Northern California*. In addition, Tamara directed and produced the award winning documentary *Afghanistan: Hell of a Nation* for PBS. Tamara is the former Executive Director of the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco. She received a BA from Brown University, and an MA from UC Santa Cruz. Tamara is a former Fulbright Scholar and currently resides in Washington, DC with her husband and two young children.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of America's leading voices in performance, arts education, and artistic curation. In the Fall of 2007, Bamuthi graced the cover of *Smithsonian Magazine* after being named one of America's Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences. He is the artistic director of the 7-part HBO documentary *Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices* and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, which annually recognizes 50 of the country's "greatest living artists." Mr. Joseph's next project, red black and green: a blues performatively documents the eco-equity movement towards green collar jobs in Black neighborhoods. Bamuthi's proudest work has been with Youth Speaks where he mentors 13-19 year old writers and curates the Living Word Festival for Literary Arts. He is the visionary behind Life is Living, a national series of one day festivals designed to activate underused parks and affirm peaceful urban life through hip hop arts and focused environmental action.

Sara Simonson is managing director of Art21, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to illuminating the creative process of today's visual artists through the production of documentary media and educational resources. Art21's flagship project is its Peabody Award-winning television series, *Art21- Art in the Twenty-First Century*, which is broadcast nationally in primetime on PBS. Sara earned her BA in Art History and Film Studies from Stanford University, and her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she specialized in Entertainment and Media Strategy. She has also worked on primetime network television series including *24*, *Friday Night Lights*, and Brian Grazer's *Imagine Television*. Sara studied film and video production at the New School and New York University, and her short films and visual art have been included in juried exhibitions at Stanford. She received the Lorenz Eitner Award in Art and Art History at Stanford, and was a John and Edith Titley Fellow at UCLA Anderson.

Ahsan Iqbal is the former Federal Minister for Education (2008). He is the current Information Secretary of the largest opposition party Pakistan Muslim League (N). His previous appointments include Policy and Public Affairs Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, and Chairman of Good Governance Group. He holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Saud Anwar is the president of the Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee (PAKPAC), and is also the founder and current co-chair of the American Muslim Peace Initiative. He has testified to the 109th US Congress for the Committee on Homeland Security about the American Muslim Community. Dr. Anwar specialized in Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care medicine at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He completed his fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Yale, and also earned his Masters in Public Health (MPH) from there.

Ambassador Husain Haqqani is Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC. A trusted advisor of late Pakistani Prime Minister, Ms. Benazir Bhutto, Ambassador Haqqani is known as a Professor at Boston University and co-chair of the Hudson Institute's Project on the Future of the Muslim World as well as editor of the journal *Current Trends in Islamist Thought*, published from Washington, DC. Haqqani came to the US in 2002 as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC and an adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is a leading journalist, diplomat, and former advisor to Pakistani Prime ministers.