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Debbie Unterman describes herself as "a private eye for the soul" -helping people find themselves and restore lost dreams. She is known for her work with survivors of childhood abuse or neglect, her innovative cure for co-dependency, and her style in dealing with sub-personalities, all of which she has written a self-help book about, called Talking to My Selves: Learning to Love the Voices in Your Head.

Dr. Jonathan Chou is the Ronald Giorgio Michaelson-Smythe Professor of Chemistry and Musical Studies in the Howard J. W. Franzenferderlesky School of Ethnomusicology and Science Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of *Smarts Sounds! Music and Math Class and Chemistry* and *Musical Education: This is What I Research at MIT* and is the co-author, with Jeans James, of *Science and Music*. He does not have time to learn how to play a musical instrument, or even to listen to music.

Mary Flannigan Shultze has taught music to middle school students in the Boston Public System for the last 10 years. She is the recipient of the 2005 Joann Sousa Excellence in Musical Education Award.

Scott L. Parker III represents the 26th Middlesex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Parker is a leading proponent of education reform, and recently authored a bill that would increase funding for music education in Massachusetts primary schools.

Ann Beattie has published seven novels and seven collections of stories. She has been included in John Updike's *Best American Short Stories* of the Century and has received the PEN/Bernard Malamud Award for lifetime achievement in the short story form. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine and Key West, Florida.

Ebenezer Asare is a Jackie Robinson Foundation scholar at Harvard University.

David Mikics is the author of *Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography* and the co-author, with Stephen Burt, of *The Art of the Sonnet*.

Michael Gazzaniga is director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he oversees an extensive and broad research program investigating how the brain enables the mind. Previously, he started centers for cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth College and the University of California-Davis. He is founder and president of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. His scholarly publication *The Cognitive Neurosciences III* (MIT Press, 2004) is recognized as the sourcebook for the field. He has also published many books accessible to a lay audience, such as *Mind Matters* and *Nature's Mind*, which, along with his participation in the public television specials *The Brain* and *The Mind*, have been instrumental in growing public interest and support for the study of the brain.

Joshua Greene is assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University and director of the Moral Cognition Lab, where he is studying moral judgment and decision-making using behavioral experiments, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and other neuro-scientific methods. He is writing a book about the implications of our emerging scientific understanding of morality.

James Blair is chief of the unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. His primary research interest involves understanding the neuro-cognitive systems mediating affect in humans and how these become dysfunctional in mood and anxiety disorders. Previously, he helped form and co-lead the Developmental Disorders group at the Institute of Cognitive Research, University College London, where he was named senior lecturer.

Jeanette Kennett recently joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department and the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of *Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology* (Clarendon Press, 2001). Previously, she was principal research fellow in The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University and also at Charles Sturt University.

Stephen Pope is professor of theology at Boston College, where he teaches courses on social ethics and theological ethics. He is author of *The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love* (Georgetown, 1994) and *Human Evolution and Christian Ethics* (Cambridge University Press, 2008).