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Profesosor Sarah Bush's research and teaching interests include international relations, democracy promotion, non-state actors in world politics, gender and human rights policy, and Middle East politics. Her book, which is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press, explores how how and why the United States and other developed countries turned to democracy promotion at the end of the Cold War and what the impact of doing so has been. The book combines large-N analysis of new and existing data sets of democracy assistance projects with case studies that draw on field research in Jordan and Tunisia. Other ongoing projects examine the effects of American democracy promotion on public attitudes in the Middle East. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in the journals International Organization and International Studies Quarterly and has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, among others.

Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Some Luck, the first volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy, long-listed for the National Book Award. She is also the author of five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.

Jonathan Galassi is a lifelong veteran of the publishing world and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as translations of the Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. A former Guggenheim Fellow and poetry editor of The Paris Review, he also writes for The New York Review of Books and other publications. He lives in New York City.

Protecting the vitality of the North and South Rivers Watershed Association has been Samantha Woods' full-time job since 2002. Woods spends her day s staging informative public events about the issues facing the rivers, advocating for specific solutions with public officials, and teaching the general public to understand the importance of protecting the rivers.

Pam DiBona has more than 25 years' experience in the environmental field, working in the government, nonprofit and private sectors. She is currently the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bays National Estuary Program.

Professor Lehr is a veteran journalist and author who worked at the Boston Globe for nearly two decades, where he was primarily an investigative reporter but also served as a magazine, legal affairs and feature writer. He has won numerous national and regional journalism and book awards, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting.

Lincoln Greenhill is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Astronomy, and he is a Radio Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. His primary research interests at present are the Cosmological Dark Age and Epoch of Reionization, supermassive black holes that lie in the centers of galaxies, signal processing, and massively parallel real-time stream computing with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

Joe White came to CWRU as Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Policy Studies in July, 2000. He succeeded founding Director Kenneth Grundy, now the Marcus A. Hanna Professor Emeritus of Political Science. Dr. White received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. While working on his doctorate at Berkeley, he also coauthored \_The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s\_, (University of California Press and The Russell Sage Foundation, 1989 & 1991) with Aaron Wildavsky. He did his research for the book and his dissertation at The Brookings Institution, where he then became first a Research Associate and then Senior Fellow. At Brookings Dr. White published numerous articles and book chapters on federal budget and appropriations processes, as well as testifying to Congress on budget process reform. He also began working on health care reform issues, writing \_Competing Solutions: American Health Care Proposals and International Experience\_ (Brookings 1995). Dr. White then combined both health care and budget analysis with a focus on programs for the elderly, studying the supposed “entitlement crisis.” In 1998 he became Associate Professor of Health Systems Management in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, and in his two years at Tulane published a series of articles on health care cost control, “managed care,” and budgeting for entitlements, while completing his next book, \_False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat to Social Security and Medicare is the Campaign to “Save” Them\_ (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Since joining the CWRU political science department, Professor White has continued to do research on health care policy, the “aging society,” and budgeting; publishing on topics including lobbying the congressional appropriations process, budget process failures during the Bush administration, government capacity to make health policy, the dynamics and consequences of medical care markets in the United States, how private health insurance works in other countries, and especially health care cost control. During the 2009-10 health care reform debate, he published articles either singly or with colleagues in \_The Annals of Internal Medicine\_, \_Health Affairs, Journal of Health Politics\_, \_Policy and Law\_, and \_New England Journal of Medicine\_. He also did online analyses or blog posts for Health Affairs, the Health Care Cost Monitor, Roll Call, and the Campaign for America’s Future.

Chloe Maxmin is a recent Harvard College graduate. She became a climate activist when she was 12, forming the Climate Action Club in high school and galvanizing a grassroots movement in her community. At Harvard, she co-founded Divest Harvard and led the campaign for two years, during which time Divest Harvard grew from group of 3 into a movement of over 70,000 people. Chloe also founded First Here, Then Everywhere to empower youth climate activists. She has received national and international recognition for her activism, including being named a "Green Hero" by Rolling Stone and appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher. She writes for The Nation, The Crimson, and other media outlets.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation magazine. She is a frequent commentator on American and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS. She writes a weekly web column for The Washington Post. She is the author of The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama. She is also the editor of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover and co-editor of Taking Back America—And Taking Down The Radical Right.

Dan Bird is the director of volunteers at Floating Hospital for Children and the driving force behind this new book from Union Park Press.

Hazel Sive is Professor of Biology at MIT, a Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, an Associate Member of the Broad Institute and an MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellow. She received the B.Sc. Hons. from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and the Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. Her research focuses on neural disorders, as well as fundamental processes underlying brain and craniofacial development, using zebrafish and frog systems. She leads the Working Group on Neural Disorders for the Zebrafish Disease Models Society. Dr. Sive also focuses on education and training. She teaches Introductory Biology to undergraduates and Developmental Biology to graduate students. At MIT, she is Chair of the Committee on Student Life, Chair of the Faculty Postdoc Advisory Committee and co-Chair of the MITx Faculty Advisory Committee. She is Director of the MIT-South Africa Program and Coordinator of the MIT-AFRICA Initiative. Dr. Sive is committed to communicating the powerful contributions that scientific research makes to human health and society.