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Steve Bell has been a broadcaster in the US and overseas all his adult life. Bell, who now is a professor of Telecommunications and Endowed Chair Emeritus at Ball State University, has traveled with presidents, interviewed heads of state and was once captured at gunpoint with his camera crew while serving as a Vietnam war correspondent in Cambodia.

FitzGerald was the daughter of New York lawyer Desmond FitzGerald. FitzGerald is best known for her book, *Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam*(1972), which was met with great acclaim when it was published and remains one of the most notable books about the Vietnam War. She was awarded both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. FitzGerald's subsequent volumes include *America Revised,* a highly critical review of high school history textbooks (1979); *Cities on a Hill* (1987); *Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War* (2000); "Rewriting American History", a short article in *The Norton Reader*; and *Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth* (2002). FitzGerald's writing has also appeared in *The New Yorker*, *Esquire*, *Architectural Digest*, and *Rolling Stone*. She serves on the editorial boards of The Natio and Foreign Policy, and is vice-president of International PEN.

Pete Peterson is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, author, and politician whose most prominent political position was as United States Secretary of Commerce. He is Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Chairman of the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group. In 1969, he was invited to chair a Commission on Foundations and Private Philanthropy, which became known as the Peterson Commission. Peterson is a co-founder of the prominent private equity and investment management firm, the Blackstone Group and was a co-founder of the Concord Coalition. He is founding Chairman of the Peterson Institute, and a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development.

Dr. Evan Dobelle was appointed as the nineteenth president of Westfield State College in December of 2007. Before coming to Westfield, he served as president of The New England Board of Higher Education since 2004, working to develop the Creative Economy of the region. Dr. Dobelle began his professional career in 1971 as executive assistant and head of the Boston Office to then US Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts. In 1973 he was elected mayor of Pittsfield, and in that role served as chair of the School Committee. In 1976 he was named Massachusetts Commissioner of Environmental Management. Always actively involved in community activities, his period as president of the Board of Jacob.

Eric Schwarz is President & CEO, and a co-founder of Citizen Schools. Schwarz has been tapped to speak about education reform and Expanded Learning Time at numerous conferences across the country. He has served as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education's Task Force on 21st Century Skills, the Center for American Progress working group on Expanded Learning Time, the transition team of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the Social Entrepreneur Advisory Board for the New Profit, Inc. Gathering of Leaders. He is the author of "Realizing the American Dream: Historical Scorecard, Current Challenges, Future Opportunities", a widely cited essay examining social change efforts and the role of social entrepreneurs, and co-editor of *The Case for Twenty-First Century Learning*. Previously, Schwarz served as a Public Service Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, as Executive Director of City Year Boston, and as a Vice President at City Year. He also served on Gary Hart's 1984 Presidential campaign and as a journalist and columnist at The Oakland Tribune and The Patriot Ledger, where he won two national awards and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Schwarz earned his B.A. at the University of Vermont and his Masters in Education at Harvard University.

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.

Attorney Howard Friedman has been representing plaintiffs in civil rights litigation for over thirty years. He began practicing law as a staff attorney at the Prisoners' Rights Project in Boston in 1977. He has been representing victims of police misconduct for many years. Howard is committed to enforcing the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution by bringing cases on behalf of people who were injured as a result of illegal conduct by police officers. He has managed complex class actions on behalf of thousands of class members. Howard is active in community groups concerned with civil rights. Howard is the president of the National Police Accountability Project. Howard is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the Supreme Court of Illinois. He received his JD from Northeastern University Law School in 1977 and a BA from Goddard College in 1974.

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.