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Peter Kadzis joined the *Boston Phoenix* as Associate Editor in 1988, became editor in 1989, and was named Executive Editor of the Phoenix Media/Communications Group in 2004. He assumed responsibility for all content and operation at its three newspapers, various magazines, and websites. Mr. Kadzis is also a political commentator on *Fox 25 News*. Mr. Kadzis’ newspaper career includes work at the *Boston Globe*, the *Providence Journal*, *New York Daily News*, *Money Magazine*, and *Forbes*. He has covered a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Wall Street, and the economy. Mr. Kadzis also worked as an editorial advisor to the *Boston Business Journal* before founding its companion publication, the *Providence Business News*. Under Kadzis’s leadership, the Phoenix has been awarded the Pulitzer for Criticism and the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. Kadzis in 2002 and 2009 won NEPA’s award for Distinguished Editorial Writing.

Suji Kwock Kim was educated at Yale College; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow. Her first book of poems, *Notes from the Divided Country* (Louisiana State University Press, 2003) was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2002 Walt Whitman Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as The Nation/ "Discovery" Award and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, Washington State Artist Trust, Korea Foundation and Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies. Private Property, a multimedia play she co-wrote, was produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was featured on BBC-TV.

Ifeanyi Menkiti teaches courses in the area of Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy and Literature, and African Philosophy at Wellesley College. He joined the faculty in 1973. He was born in Onitsha, Nigeria and studied at Pomona College from which he received a BA in 1964. He subsequently earned an M.S. from Columbia University (1965), an MA from New York University (1968), and a PhD from Harvard in 1974. He has published articles on philosophical issues in such journals as *The Philosophical Forum*, *The Journal of Value Inquiry*, *The Harvard Educational Review*, and *The Journal of the American Academy of Religion*. Professor Menkiti is also a poet whose writing has been aired on National Public Radio. He received a poetry award from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts in 1978. He has published three volumes: *Affirmations* (1971), *The Jubilation of Falling Bodies* (1978), and *Of Altair, the Bright Light* (2005). He is the owner of the historic Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Harvard Square.

Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on Leadership and Strategy. He teaches executive education at the Tuck School (where he serves as the Faculty Director of the flagship Tuck Executive Program), and also has experience working with executives at Northwestern, Wharton, Duke, Bocconi, London Business School, Australian Graduate School of Management, Melbourne Business School, Hanoi School of Business, the Chalmers School (Sweden) and the Helsinki School of Economics. He holds degrees from Concordia University and the London School of Economics, as well as a PhD from Columbia University in strategic management. Professor Finkelstein has conducted extensive research on strategic leadership and corporate governance, and published numerous articles in the major journals in his field. He is an expert on mergers and acquisitions, executive decision-making, executive compensation, and boards of directors. His book, *Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations*, was a finalist for the Academy of Management’s Terry Book Award in 1998. His article on power dynamics within top management teams was ranked as the number one publication by academicians in strategic leadership in the first half of the 1990s.

Jasmine Waddell is the senior officer for Research and Learning for the US Regional Office of Oxfam America.

Rebecca Woodcock is the parent of a child with autism.

James T. Brett is president and Chief Executive Officer of The New England Council, and chair of the Governor's Commission on Developmental Disabilities. The Council, a nationally respected and influential regional organization, was established in 1925. It is an alliance of schools, hospitals, corporations, and other private organizations throughout New England, working together to promote economic growth and a high quality of life in the New England region. It identifies and supports federal policies of importance to New England, and advocates for its membership regionally and nationally. While a legislator, Mr. Brett was formally honored on several occasions by labor, human service, and law enforcement organizations for outstanding public service. Many other groups honored him as "Legislator of the Year," and organizations such as Friends of the John F. Kennedy Library, Central Remedial Clinic in Ireland, and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers have publicly honored him for his service. Mr. Brett has continued to be a tireless advocate for the physically and mentally challenged, and has been recognized for his humanitarian work by Action for Boston Community Development (Lifetime Public Service Award) and Hospice of Boston (Humanitarian of the Year). In 1996, Bay Cove Human Services of Boston named a new community home for disabled adults "Brett House" in his honor. Mr. Brett also received the Distinguished Leadership Award from Massachusetts Special Olympics in 2008.

Dan Thornhill is interested in the evolution and ecology of marine invertebrates, especially those that form symbioses with eukaryotic or prokaryotic microbes. Ultimately, his research investigates the physiological, ecological, and evolutionary processes driving speciation in marine environments. His past and current research examines a variety of marine organisms and habitats. Recently, he has studied marine organisms from tropical coral reefs, Norwegian fjords, deep-sea methane seeps, and the waters around Antarctica. He plans to continue developing a diverse and collaborative research program while at Bowdoin College. In the near term, much of his work will focus on symbioses in corals and siboglinid annelids. In addition to being also important 'keystone' species in coral reef and chemosynthetic ecosystems, these organisms offer a diversity of both host and symbiont taxa, enabling comparative testing of many ecological and evolutionary hypotheses.

Susan M. Wilczynski is the Executive Director of the National Autism Center. She chairs the National Standards Project, which will serve to establish national standards for the educational and behavioral treatment of individuals on the autism spectrum, and works in collaboration with experts from all over the country. Dr. Wilczynski is charged with developing state-of-the-art Autism Screening and Diagnostic Clinics in underserved areas. In addition, she spearheads "Pathways", a parent education series for parents whose children have recently received a diagnosis on the autism spectrum. Before joining the National Autism Center as Executive Director, Dr. Wilczynski developed and directed an intensive early intervention program for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) at Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation. She has authored multiple articles and book chapters on the treatment of ASD and has co-edited the book *Effective Practices for Children with Autism*. A licensed psychologist and a board certified behavior analyst, Dr. Wilczynski has held academic appointments at the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and UMASS-Boston.

Emma Ambrose has been a producer and reporter for the Sudan Radio Project since January 2009. Her reports strive to examine the politics of Sudan in a broader international context, as well as exploring the experiences of Sudanese expatriates.

Atul Gawande is a surgeon and writer based in Massachusetts. From 1992 to 1993 he served as senior health policy advisor to the Clinton campaign and the Clinton White House. Since 1998 he has been a staff writer for *The New Yorker*. He is on the currently faculty of Brigham and Women's Hospital as a general and endocrine surgeon, and is a staff member of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Research Director for the Brigham and Women's Center for Surgery and Public Health. He has written two best-selling books, *Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science* and *Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance*.

Robin Kirby is a heart centered therapist, combining traditional cognitive techniques with hypnotherapy, regressive therapy, conscious connected breathing, meditation, and guided imagery to find the source of troubling emotions and patterns and facilitate healing at the deepest level. She provides a nurturing environment that allows individuals, couples, and family members to open their hearts and live from that place of authenticity. She holds a masters degree in education, and a PhD in clinical psychology. She is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, certified release therapist, certified life coach, and educator. She is also a Reiki practitioner and is constantly studying, learning, and incorporating new energetic and spiritual healing modalities into her work. She is the founder of Loving Impact, a private practice dedicated to the healing of mind, body, and spirit.