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The Reverend Charlene Hicks has been a certified professional astrologer, psychic medium, healer, and hypnotist since 1980. She has been heard live on more than 243 radio stations nationwide throughout the US and Canada.

A Southern Writer born and raised in Georgia. Winner of the Townsend Prize for her first novel A Cabinet of Wonders. Awarded biennially, the Townsend Prize for Fiction is given to a Georgia Writer judged to have published the best work of Fiction in the two previous years. Dodd"s book is also on the current "List of 25 Books All Georgians Should Read".

Tierney Gearon was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1963 and attended the University of Utah. Gearon is best known for her highly acclaimed and publicized work "I am a Camera", shown at the Saatchi Gallery in 2001, followed by an early summer show at The Gagosian Gallery in New York. In 2006, her second major body of work, "The Mother Project" became the subject of a documentary film. A book of the exhibition, *Daddy, where are you?* was published later that year.

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. is the Distinguished Fellow and Consultative Curator of American Art at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum. Before joining the Fogg, Stebbins served as the John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for the 22 years and as associate professor of art history and curator of American painting and sculpture at Yale University.

Gerald Stern was born in 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. The author of 15 books of poetry, Stern's work reveals ideas and memories that are intensely personal yet profoundly universal. Relying heavily on irony, and a sometimes bitter sense of humor, Stern's starkly realistic style of poetry has been described as "doomsday among the tricycles and kittens." Stern's recent books of poetry are *Save the Last Dance: Poems (2008)*, *Everything is Burning (2005), American Sonnets (2002), Last Blue: Poems (2000), and This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998),* which won the National Book Award. Among his other honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN award, and the 2005 Wallace Stevens award. Stern was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.

Susan Kolb is a medical doctor with a specialty in plastic and reconstructive surgery. She has treated thousands of women with complications from breast implant surgery, and her practice has emerged as an international healing center for women with breast implant disease and other immune disorders. Her medical practice routinely incorporates state of the art surgical technology with holistic medicine and spiritual healing. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University, received her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine and completed her post-graduate education in plastic surgery and general surgery at Wilford Hall Medical Center. She served as a surgeon in the United States Air Force, specializing in the treatment of burns, hand reconstruction and cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. Dr. Kolb is a member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. She is a founding diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and a member of the American Holistic Medical Association. Dr. Kolb is the director and founder of Millennium Healthcare, a holistic medical center; Avatar Cancer Center, an alternative cancer treatment institute and Plastikos, a holistic plastic surgery center.

Considered to be one of Atlanta's most influential businessmen and also recognized as one of the area's most successful small business owners, Oscar Harris has been leading Turner Associates since 1977. Soon after joining the firm, he purchased the Atlanta branch of the firm in 1977; purchasing all of Turner's operations and became one of Atlanta's leading architectural and planning firms. The firm has been involved in the conceptualization, planning, design, and project management of the new Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Expansion and the MARTA System in Atlanta. His thesis, A Methodology for Developing Security Criteria for Transit" (Carnegie Mellon 1971) brought him to Atlanta to work on the MARTA system. Since that time Turner Associates has designed and planned numerous transit stations in Atlanta, Cleveland and Florida. The firm is also involved in numerous Transit Oriented Developments (TODs) in Atlanta. In addition to transit, Turner Associates designed the Centennial Olympic Park architecture that has become an iconic symbol for the City of Atlanta. His ability to work with community organizations and clients to form consensus of vision through "visioning" workshops has allowed Turner Associates to become a premier expert in TODs and transit integration into communities. As Senior Trustee of the Urban Land Institute Oscar, is also contributing author for ULI's "Ten Principles for Successful Developments Around Transit."

Born in Brooklyn in 1957, Martín Espada was once called by Sandra Cisneros "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors." A poet, editor, essayist, and translator, he has published more than 16 collections and has earned a reputation as a writer of passionate social and political conviction, as well as intense lyricism. When asked about his reasons for writing, he responded, "Compulsion. It feels urgent. There are ghosts that tell me to write…I'm talking about the interplay of imagination and memory and ancestors, both literal and figurative." Espada’s poetry is informed by those ancestors and by his own past self. In “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper,” he reminds us of the countless nameless, faceless workers whose efforts go unacknowledged and uncelebrated. Edward Hirsch has written of Espada, "He stands up for what Whitman calls 'the rights of them the others are down upon' and writes a fiery, impure, earth-tinged, human-centered poetry." Espada’s awards include the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Robert Creeley Award, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Formerly a tenant lawyer, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and the work of Pablo Neruda.

Georgia State University, Master of Business Administration, 1982 Harvard Graduate School of Design, Management of Design and Planning Firms Short Course, 1980 Georgia Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Architecture, 1971 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Principal, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Inc., 2000–present Principal, Scogin Elam and Bray Architects, Inc., 1984–2000 Architect and Senior Associate, Heery and Heery, Architects and Engineers, Inc., 1969–1981 Intern, Taylor and Collum Architects, 1967–1969

Landesberg is an Atlanta-based public artist and architect whose projects include a large-scale installation on the exterior of the Fulton County Center for Health and Rehabilitation and "Power Wrap," an enclosure for an electrical sub-station owned by Georgia Tech and Georgia Power.