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Behnaz Rouhani studied mathematics education at the University of Georgia. She is a professor of mathematics for the online service of Georgia Perimeter College.

Travis Hunter is an writer, songwriter, and father. Hunter is a native of Florence, S.C. He was also reared in Philadelphia, PA. A veteran of the US Army, he attended Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Perimeter College, and subsequently enrolled in Georgia State University where he majored in psychology.

Donald Friary is president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Mr. Friary recently concluded a 40-year career at Historic Deerfield, 28 of them as the museum's executive director, and is now director emeritus. He serves as the principal of History for Hire, LLC a consulting firm for museums throughout the United States. Donald Friary has recently been appointed to the Massachusetts Historical Commission.

In addition to his work with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Michael David Murphy is a writer and photographer in Atlanta, Georgia. His words and pictures have been published in *People*, *The Los Angeles Times*, *San Francisco * magazine, *USA Today*, and *Upstreet UK*.

From 1982 to 1996, Jim Clancy was a CNN International correspondent in the Beirut, Frankfurt, Rome and London bureaus. During this time, he won the George Polk Award for his reporting on the genocide in Rwanda, the Alfred I. duPont Award for coverage of the war in Bosnia, and an Emmy Award for reporting on the famine and international intervention in Somalia. He joined CNN in 1981 as a national correspondent, after an extensive, award-winning career in local radio and television in Denver and San Francisco.

Connie Schultz is a nationally syndicated columnist based at *The Plain Dealer* newspaper. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Schultz was also a 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing.

Richard Bausch was born in Ft. Benning, GA, in 1945. He was educated in the public schools in and around Washington, D.C., and after two failures to maintain a standing in college, served a stint in the US Air Force, after which he returned to university studies, first in Virginia and then at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the author of 10 novels and seven collections of stories.

Harry Shearer is first and foremost an actor. He is also a writer, director, satirist, musician, radio host, playwright, multi-media artist, and record label owner. For 19 years, the Los Angeles native has enjoyed enormous success and planted the fruits of his talents in the heads of millions worldwide, thanks to his voice work for *The Simpsons * and *The Simpsons Movie*.

Amy O'Leary is a News Editor for NYTimes.com and a former public radio producer.

David received his B.S. in 1986 from MIT, Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University, and M.D. in 1994 from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internship, residency and clinical fellowship training at Endocrinologist and human geneticist David Altshuler is a founding member of the Broad Institute and serves as director of the Broad’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics, as well as the Institute’s first Deputy Director and Chief Academic Officer. David is one of the world’s leading scientists in the study of human genetic variation and its application to disease, using tools and information from the Human Genome Project. He has been a lead investigator in The SNP Consortium, the International HapMap Project, and the 1,000 Genomes Project - public-private partnerships that have created public maps of human genome sequence variation as a foundation for disease research. His work has contributed to the understanding of gene variants that influence the risk of common conditions, including type 2 diabetes, blood cholesterol, prostate cancer, systemic lupus erythematosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. These studies provide new clues about the mechanisms that cause these diseases, and more generally, provide a blueprint for analyzing the role of genetic variations in human health. David is also a professor of genetics and medicine at Harvard Medical School, and in the department of molecular biology at the Center for Human Genetic Research, as well as the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.

William R. Grant is director of *Science*, *Nature* and *History* programs at WNET in New York, the flagship of the US public television system. He joined WNET in 1995 after 12 years at WGBH in Boston, where he was managing editor of *Frontline*, and then, for 10 years, executive editor of *Nova*. At WGBH he also served as executive producer of *Living Against the Odds* and *Made In America?* At WNET he is in charge of one of public television's largest documentary production departments which brings to national broadcast an average of 40 hours of programs a year in the areas of natural history, science, history, business, travel and other topics. While at WNET he has also been executive producer of *Innovation* and *Going Places*, two PBS anthology series, and numerous mini-series, including *America on Wheels*, *Savage Skies*, *Savage Earth*, *Savage Seas*, *Knife to The Heart*, *Stephen Hawking's Universe*, *On the Trail Of Mark Twain*, *The American President*, *In Search of Ancient Ireland*, *The Rise And Fall of Jim Crow*, *Slavery and the Making Of America*, *African American Lives*, *Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special*, *African American Lives 2*, *The Ascent Of Money*, and *Looking For Lincoln*. He has been responsible, as executive in charge of production, for *Nature*, one of public television's most watched continuing series, and the mini-series *Savage Planet*, *Secrets of the Dead,** Secrets of the Pharaohs*, *Warship*, *Warplane*, *Africa*, *DNA*, *1900 House*, *Frontier House*, *Manor House*, *Colonial House*, *Texas Ranch House*, *The Secret Life of the Brain*, *The Mysterious Human Heart*, and *The Supreme Court*. Prior to joining WGBH in 1983, he was for 14 years a reporter and editor at two of the nation's largest daily newspapers -- *The Detroit Free Press* and *The San Francisco Chronicle*, where his work won numerous awards.

In his 20 years of work in public television, Stephen Ives has established himself as one of the nation's leading independent documentary directors. His landmark series The West was seen by more than 38 million people nationwide during its national PBS premiere in the fall of 1996, making it one of the most watched PBS programs of all time. Ives' documentary film *Lindbergh*, a portrait of the reluctant American hero Charles A. Lindbergh, premiered the third season of *American Experience* series on PBS in 1990. *The Los Angeles Times* called the film "a powerful slice of history. . . an engrossing study of a complex figure." In 1987, Ives began a decade-long collaboration with filmmaker Ken Burns, as a co-producer of a history of the United States Congress, and as a consulting producer on the groundbreaking series, *The Civil War* and *Baseball*. After the premiere of *The West*, Ives turned his attention towards contemporary films, producing a profile of the innovative Cornerstone Theater Company, which aired on HBO in the fall of 1999, and *Amato: a love affair with opera*, a portrait of the world's smallest opera company which aired nationally on PBS in 2001 and earned Ives a nomination from The Director's Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. His profile of the 1930's thoroughbred Seabiscuit, which aired on *American Experience* in April 2003, won a prime-time Emmy award, and his PBS series, *Reporting America at War*, about American war correspondents was described by *The Los Angeles Times* as "television that matters...a visual document of power and clarity." Since 2003, he has directed four films for American Experience: *Seabiscuit*, *Las Vegas*, *New Orleans*, and *Kit Carson*. His film on the assassination of Martin Luther King and the manhunt for James Earl Ray, based on the book by best-selling author Hampton Sides, wrapped production last summer.