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Kathryn Schulz has written for *The Nation*, *Rolling Stone*, and the *New York Times Magazine*, among other publications. A former editor of the online environmental magazine *Grist* and the *Santiago Times* in Chile, she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism in 2004. She lives in New York.

Rafe Esquith is one of the most inspiring grade school teachers in America. He is celebrated by The White House, The Dalai Lama and Oprah, and called a "Modern-day Thoreau" by *Newsweek*. Mr. Esquith has taught kids from some of the toughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles with staggering success. His fifth-students are already tackling high-school fare: algebra, philosophy and Shakespeare. As a result, they consistently score in the top 5-10% on the state standardized tests. Mr. Esquith has been teaching for over 27 years in LAUSD.

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of five previous novels including, *Less Than Zero*, *The Rules of Attraction*, *American Psycho*, *Glamorama*, and *Lunar Park*, and a collection of stories, *The Informers*. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. *Less Than Zero*, *The Rules of Attraction*, A*merican Psycho*, and *The Informers* have all been made into films. He divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City.

Kemal Derviş is vice president and director of Global Economy and Development. Formerly head of the United Nations Development Programme, he focuses on global economics, emerging markets, development and international institutions.

David McCabe is the Coordinator of the Teacher Preparation Program and Assistatn Professor of Education at Pasadena City College.

Matthew W. Powner, PhD, is an organic and biological chemist and research fellow at the Harvard Medical School, working on the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative Since 2009, Dr. Powner has worked with Nobel laureate Prof. J. W. Szostak in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Laura Eldridge is a women’s health writer and activist living in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of *The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause* and the co-editor of *Body Politic: Dispatches from the Women's Health Revolution*.

Fredrik Stanton, former president of the *Columbia Daily Spectator*, has written for the *Boston Herald* and the United Nations’s *A Global Agenda*. He was an election monitor in Armenia, Republic of Georgia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Azerbaijan.

John Seiradakis is a radioastronomer and professor in the Department of Physics in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After taking his first degree in Athens, he went to the Victoria University of Manchester in the UK where he completed his MSc and PhD. His main research interests are in Neutron Stars (Pulsar searches – Emission mechanisms – High frequency radio observations – High frequency polarization – Interstellar medium investigations), Flare Stars (UBV Optical Observations – Flare monitoring – Studies of the atmospheric activity of Flare Stars and RS CVn stars) and The Centre of our Galaxy (High frequency radio maps – Polarization – Modeling of radio observations). With nearly 90 publications to his credit, he is very active both in research, teaching and the promotion of astronomy. His publications include 44 papers in journals as well as educational books and conference proceedings. In addition to chairing many committees at his university and representing Greece on numerous European and international organizations, he has served as both Secretary and President of the Hellenic Astronomical Society.

Tom Malzbender is a senior research scientist in the Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab within Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Much of his work has taken place at the intersection of interactive 3D computer graphics, computer vision and signal processing.