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Bill Nigut is the Southeast Regional Director of Anti-Defamation League. Formerly, Bill was a political reporter for WSB-TV in Atlanta.

James Sullivan is a regular contributor to the *Boston Globe*. He previously served as the pop music and culture critic at the *San Francisco Chronicle* and has written for *Rolling Stone* among many other publications.

Oren Harman, who has a doctorate from Oxford University, is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Science Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University and a professor of the history of science. He is the author of *The Man Who Invented the Chromosome*, a documentary film maker, and a frequent contributor to *The New Republic*. He lives in Tel Aviv and New York.

Elizabeth Streb, 1997 recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award, was one called the Evel Knievel of dance. Her choreography intertwines the disciplines of dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, the circus, and Hollywood stunt-work. In 2003 Streb established S.L.A.M. (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) in Brooklyn, NY. S.L.A.M.'s door is literally open for the community to come in and watch rehearsals, take classes and learn to fly.

John R. Boatright is professor of business ethics in the Graduate Business School at Loyola University Chicago, and director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Business Ethics. He has served as the president and executive director for the Society for Business Ethics. He is the author of two books, *Ethics and the Conduct of Business* and *Ethics in Finance*, and is currently editing a forthcoming volume, *Finance Ethics*. He has published widely in many major journals, and serves on the editorial boards of three journals.

Neil B. Shulman is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Neil B. Shulman include The Germ Patrol: All About Shots for Tots...... and Big Kids, Too!, Under the Backyard Sky, What's in a Doctor's Bag?.

Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection *Half in Love*, the novels *Liars and Saints* and *A Family Daughter*, and the new collection, *Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It*, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2009 by the New York Times Book Review. Meloy’s stories have been published in *The New Yorker*, *The Paris Review*, *Zoetrope: All-Story*, *Granta*, and other publications, and she has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.

Ben H. Winters is an American author, journalist and playwright, who is best known for the 2009 parody novel, *Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters*, which reached the New York Times best seller list in September 2009. His second novel, *Android Karenina* (Quirk Books), will be published in June of 2010; his young adult novel, *The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman*, will be published by HarperCollins in September, 2010.

Gail Caldwell is the former chief book critic for *The Boston Globe*, where she was a staff writer and critic for more than twenty years. In 2001, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She is also the author of *A Strong West Wind*, a memoir of her native Texas. Caldwell lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.