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Garrett Anderson is the director of Efficiency Projects and an Energy Advisor for Cambridge Energy Alliance in Cambridge, MA.

Marty Westerbrook is the host of *Marty in the Mornings* on the New England radio station WNEN.

Pelecanos is the author of fifteen crime novels set in and around Washington, D.C. He served as producer on, *Caught*, *Whatever* and *BlackMale*. He was a producer, writer, and story editor for the television series *The Wire.*

James Reston Jr. is the author of 13 books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. Reston was David Frost's Watergate adviser for the famous Frost/Nixon Interviews and his articles have appeared in *the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Esquire, American Theatre, Playboy*, and *Rolling Stone.*

Jeff graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Criminology. He is the author of war novels.

Samir Selmanovic completed a bachelor of science degree in structural engineering at the University of Zagreb and earned three graduate degrees from Andrews University in Michigan, including a doctorate in religious education. He served as a pastor and community organizer in Manhattan for six years. Selmanovic is an ordained pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist church and cofounder of *Re-church Network*.

Joseph is the author of three novels and writes literary and cultural criticism, regularly for the *Atlantic Monthly.*

Dolen Perkins-Valdez's fiction and essays have appeared in *StoryQuarterly, Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2009, The Kenyon Review, PMS: PoemMemoirStory, North Carolina Literary Review*, and *Richard Wright Newsletter.*

Walls has written for *New York, Esquire,* and *USA Today.* She contributed regularly to the gossip column "Scoop" at *MSNBC.com.*

In Seattle, Jennifer was the producer and host of the radio program, *Talking Fiction* on KCMU, and the Senior Book Columnist for *The Stranger.* She then became an editor on the literary magazine, *Epoch* and taught writing and literature classes. Her work has appeared in *the Alaska Review, Allure, BookForum, the Lincoln Center Theater Review, Los Angeles Times, Nerve, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Salon, the Stranger* and *Tin House*. Her essays have been in several anthologies including *The Friend Who Got Away*, *Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave*, and* How to Spell Chanukah*.

John Krewson is the sports editor for *The Onion*. *The Onion* is a comedy publication founded by Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson in 1988 when the two were juniors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As it broke through to the mass market in 2000, Comedy Central approached it for a buyout that would take the satirical tabloid to New York City and broaden its reach into other forms of media–books, blogs, tweets, and now an iPhone app. In April 2007, The Onion launched “The Onion News Network,” a web video sendup of 24-hour TV news which won a Peabody award in 2009. *The Onion* is read by more than 3 million people a week in print and online.

Sissela Bok is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is a writer and philosopher and received her BA and MA in psychology at the George Washington University, and her PhD in philosophy at Harvard University. The third edition of her book *Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life* (Pantheon, 1978) was reissued in 1999 (Vintage) with a new preface. Other books include *Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment* (Basic Books, 1998); *Common Values* (University of Missouri Press, 1996; reissued in 2002 with a new preface); Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir (Perseus Books, 1991); A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War (Pantheon, 1989); and Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (Pantheon, 1982; Vintage, 1989). With Gerald Dworkin and R. G. Frey, Bok has co-authored Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (Cambridge University Press, 1998). With Daniel Callahan she has co-edited Ethics Teaching in Higher Education (Springer, 1980), and with John Behnke, The Dilemmas of Euthanasia (Doubleday, 1975). Dr. Bok recently contributed a chapter to the *International Encyclopedia of Public Health*, “Rethinking the WHO Definition of Health.”