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Andrew Levine is a two-time grant recipient from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2000, he directed and produced The Price of Youth, a ten-minute expose chronicling the slave trade between Nepal and India. While working on the Emmy nominated The Day my God Died, completed in 2003, he compiled statistics and interviews from international agencies such as UNICEF, the United Nations, the Global Survival Network and the International Justice Mission. He also worked closely with the US/AID & the State Department, negotiated the collaboration of Congressman Jim McDermott, former Secretary Madeleine Albright and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation along with refugee camps for child castaways with AIDS. For the last two years, he has sat on the board of the Daywalka Foundation and continues to work with the Friends of Maiti Nepal.

Ruchira Gupta is a journalist from India who has put an international spotlight on human trafficking through her writing and film work. Ms. Gupta received the Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2009 for her relentless efforts to end human trafficking and gender based violence. She directed and produced The Selling of Innocents, based on her journalistic efforts in Nepal and India, which won an Emmy award in 1997. Most recently, she worked with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) as Director of the UNIFEM Media Unit to raise awareness about trafficking and other forms of violence against women. Ms. Gupta is the Founder and President of Apne Aap, a nongovernmental organization in India that works to create international partnerships to defend and ensure women’s and children’s rights to survival, protection, development, and equal participation.

Joseph H. Collins has worked for many years as an economic advisor to various government ministries and the Central Bank of Nepal on a pro-bono basis. His company, J. H. Collins and Associates, together with the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems and KPMG (India) have written and supervised the passage of legislation in Nepal to encourage foreign investment and economic development.

Jonathan H. Adler is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. Professor Adler is the author or editor of four books on environmental policy and over a dozen book chapters. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the *Harvard Environmental Law Review* and *Supreme Court Economic Review* to *The Wall Street Journal* and *The Washington Post*. Professor Adler is a contributing editor to *National Review Online* and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, "The Volokh Conspiracy." A 2007 study identified Professor Adler as the most cited legal academic in environmental law under age 40, and his recent article, "Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Law Use Controls," published in the Boston College Law Review, was selected as one of the ten best articles in land use and environmental law in 2008. In 2004, Professor Adler received the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. In 2007, the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association awarded Professor Adler their annual "Distinguished Teacher Award." Professor Adler serves on the advisory board of the NFIB Legal Foundation, the academic advisory board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, and the Environmental Law Reporter and ELI Press Advisory Board of the Environmental Law Institute. A regular commentator on environmental and legal issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS "Newshour with Jim Lehrer" and NPR's "Talk of the Nation" to the Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" and "Entertainment Tonight." Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western, Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Professor Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where he directed CEI's environmental studies program. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and a J.D. summa cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law.

Professor Waters' research and teaching interests include foreign relations law, international law, international human rights law and international criminal law, comparative law, conflicts of law, civil procedure, and complex civil litigation. Her scholarly work focuses on the incorporation of international law into domestic legal regimes, and in particular on the role of transnational judicial dialogue in developing international legal norms and in transforming U.S. and other domestic courts into key mediators between domestic and international law. She has written extensively on the debate in Congress and in the media over the use of foreign and international law in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Her articles have been published in the Columbia, Georgetown, and North Carolina law reviews, in the Yale Journal of International Law, and in numerous edited volumes and symposium collections. In 2006, her work was one of three U.S. entries selected by the American Society of International Law (through a peer reviewed process) for presentation at the inaugural *Four Societies Symposium* (a joint symposium of the American, Australia/New Zealand, Canadian, and Japanese Societies of International Law). Her scholarship on transnational judicial dialogue has been cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Waters served in the U.S. State Department as Senior Advisor to Harold Hongju Koh, Asisstant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor. She was a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC, where she was a member of President Clinton's legal defense team. She has also served as a consultant to the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute, specializing in the design, development and implementation of rule of law and human rights capacity building projects. A proud native of Elm Springs, Arkansas, Professor Waters was a law clerk to the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in Little Rock. In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Waters specializes in developing and conducting human rights and rule of law training programs for legal professionals in transitional democracies, most recently partnering with the International Bar Association and ABA/CEELI to train judges and government officials from Iraq and Central Asia.

Sandy Hodgkinson was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues at the State Department, and Director for International Justice at the National Security Council at the White House. Prior to that, Ms. Hodgkinson was Senior Advisor on Human Rights for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq and Kuwait. She was a Middle East and North Africa Foreign Affairs Officer in the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Prior to entering civil service, Ms. Hodgkinson was in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. Her assignments included: Prosecutor and Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction Officer for Europe and Southwest Asia; Court Commissioner for the Navy and Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals; and Country Program Manager for the Defense Institute for International Legal Studies. She is currently a Commander in the Navy Reserve JAG Corps and Acting Executive Officer of the Navy Reserve’s International and Operational Law Unit. Ms. Hodgkinson earned her B.A. at Tulane University (1992); her M.A. at the University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies (1995); and her J.D. at the University of Denver College of Law (1995). She has studied at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and the Hague Academy of International Law. Licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C. and Colorado, she has taught National Security Law at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law and published articles on international and preventive law.

Prior to joining Greenberg & Lieberman, Mike Lebowitz already was recognized as an award-winning international journalist. Among other writing credits, he was a weekly columnist for the Jerusalem Post and a reporter for the News-Herald in Cleveland. Mike also was a legal consultant in East Africa where he focused on media law and judicial reform. In 2005-2006, he served in Iraq as a paratrooper with the elite Pathfinder Company of the 101st Airborne Division. Mike was recognized and decorated by the command for his direct role in capturing high-value individuals throughout Iraq that included foreign fighters, insurgents, terrorist masterminds and financiers. Currently, Mike is a JAG officer with the Virginia Army National Guard. In that capacity, he is a defense counsel for the 29th Infantry Division where he provides legal assistance to those enlisted soldiers and officers subject to adverse action. He also helps advise the command, negotiates agreements and provides confidential legal assistance to any service member. Mike's civilian practice is dedicated to his work at Greenberg & Lieberman. While at the firm, Mike has engaged in some high-profile military defense cases. He is recognized as an authority on the subject of military expression, and has been quoted in numerous media outlets including the Washington Post, CNN and USA Today. He also has testified to separate US House and Senate hearings as a legal expert. In addition, Mike has aided in the prosecution of numerous patent applications, provided intellectual property counsel for both start-up and established businesses and been involved in litigation with such heavyweights as Nike and Microsoft. In the community, Mike is an advocate for veterans' rights. He also provides pro bono legal services for the Student Press Law Center and regularly conducts client intake with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.

Gregory Fraser is the author of two poetry collections, Strange Pietà (Texas Tech, 2003) and Answering the Ruins (Northwestern, 2009). He is also the co-author, with Chad Davidson, of the workshop textbook Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008) and the composition textbook Analyze Anything: A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing (Continuum, forthcoming in 2012). His poetry has appeared in literary journals including the Paris Review, the Southern Review, and Ploughshares. The recipient of grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fraser serves as associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of West Georgia.

Christina Bain is the Director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Prior to her time at the Kennedy School, Christina was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as the Executive Director of the Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence, a statewide commission of over 340 public and private sector partners. She previously served as the Public Affairs Liaison to Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey where she worked on domestic violence and criminal justice issues, including human trafficking and sex offender management. Since 2006, she has been a member of the Massachusetts Human Trafficking Task Force, one of the 42 statewide anti-trafficking task forces funded by the U.S. Department of Justice. Christina also served as a Special Assistant to Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts.

Gina E. Jones is an award-winning author, screenwriter and former radio talk show host. While writing the screenplay for her novel, “Flying Between Heaven and Earth”, Gina began to see how her own life seemed to be scripted in the destiny cards. Looking back over the years of her life, she discovered that all the highs and lows of her life were actually written in a record. Gina studied architectural design at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. In addition to being a patent-holding product designer, she had a 28-year career as a flight attendant with a major U.S. airline. It was there beyond the clouds that she began to see life from a higher perspective. Gina retired from flying in January 2006 to begin a new career as an author, screenwriter and speaker in California.

An activist, husband, father of two, minister, mentor, board member and committed community member, Marvin L. Venay has served as the Director of the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus (MBLC) since early 2007. Marvin is recognized as an influential leader with innovative approaches to politics. He believes that today's politics is in need of a more radical approach to serve its true purpose. A native of Pittsburgh, PA and a Boston University alum, Marvin possesses significant experience with project management, relationship management and has a strong background in communication and sales. He has a knack for organizational development and the building of concepts from infancy to fruition. Marvin has a wide range of experience, from corporate to non-profit work. He serves on two non-profit boards and mentors several students and professionals across the country. Marvin has a heart for the world and motivates everyone to live by the motto penned by George Bernard Shaw, “Some people see things as they are and ask 'why'? I see things as they have never been and ask 'why not'?”