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Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is well known for his two books, *China, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze *(2001) and *Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present* (2006). Hessler graduated Princeton University in 1992 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study English language and literature at the University of Oxford. In 1996, he joined the Peace Corps and spent the next two years teaching English at a local college in Fuling, China. Since 1999, he has lived in Beijing as a freelance writer. He is currently married to journalist and writer Leslie T. Chang. In 1999, Peter Hessler started a Yahoo Scholarship Fund which supports students in Sichuan, Chongqing and Tibet.

Alicia E. Goranson is a local Boston author. Her writing appears in the anthology *Pinned Down By Pronouns* and *Other Magazine*. Her first novel *Supervillainz* is the co-winner of the 2005 Project QueerLit award, and is available from Suspect Thoughts Press. She reads all across the country.

Since graduating from HGSEs Arts in Education program in 2003, Anika has continued to dedicate her career to promoting arts education through nonprofit work in New York City. In 2003, she interned at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Following her internship, she next worked for Cool Culture, an urban nonprofit organization that partners with cultural institutions to provide education and free admission to families of Head Start students. At Cool Culture, Anika devoted her time toward developing education and outreach programs; of her accomplishments there, she is most proud of the fairs she organized, putting museums and Head Start representatives in direct contact with each other in order to generate new partnerships aimed at promoting arts education. Anika now serves as the School Programs Director at City Lore, a nonprofit organization focused on conveying the richness of New York Citys cultural heritage through educational programs and publications. Demonstrated by the fact that it is a research site for Project Zeros Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It study, City Lore is notable for its long history of bringing high-quality arts experiences to the community.

Robert Schulzinger is the Director of the International Affairs Program at CU-Boulder, and a College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Distinction. He born in Cincinnati, Ohio, received his B.A. degree magna cum laude from Columbia University, and his Ph.D., from Yale University. He also studied at the London School of Economics. He has taught at CU since 1977. Bob is the author or co-author of twelve books and over sixty articles on the history of U.S. foreign relations and recent American history. Among his books are* The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs: The History of the Council on Foreign Relation*, *Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy*, *A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975*, and *Present Tense: The United States since 1945*. His book,* A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War* will be published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. Bob is a past-president of the Society fo Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He has been the editor-in-chief of SHAFR's journal Diplomatic History since 2001. He was a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation from 1996 to 2005.