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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.

Michael Herb is an American political scientist who gained prominence through his All in the Family thesis of Arab monarchies. Herb graduated from University of Washington in 1987, earned his masters degree from UCLA in 1992, and completed his doctorate at UCLA in 1997. He joined the faculty of the Georgia State Political Science Department in 1998.

Professor Chaplain is the Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Dundee, where he is the chair of Mathematical Biology and leads a research group of 25 students and lecturers. He is a dedicated University teacher, graduate student supervisor, and research advisor. He has received a number of prestigious awards including the London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize, and became an elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003. Furthermore, Mark served as the president of the International Society for Mathematical Biology. Professor Chaplain edited a number of books, wrote numerous book chapters, and has authored and co-authored more than 130 peer reviewed journal articles.

Lynn Hlatky is the founding director of the Center of Cancer Systems Biology. She joined the Medical Center from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Department of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School. The mission of the Center of Cancer Systems Biology is based on the appreciation that carcinogenesis evolves at multiple levels ranging from molecular signalings to cellular and tissue interactions, and that only by their concerted study can the entire process be understood. Accordingly, the Center has recruited people with expertise in clinical oncology, cancer biology, molecular biology, radiobiology, bioengineering, mathematics, informatics and computational biology. Dr. Hlatky also directs a multi-institutional NASA Specialized Center of Research Program, the mission of which is to investigate radiation-induced carcinogenesis of solid tumors. This Program involves active participation from investigators at University of CA Berkeley, Harvard Medical School and the University of Heidelberg.

Sue Williams is a director and producer who has worked on numerous television projects including WGBH's *Frontline*, *The American Experience* and TV specials such as *China: Born Under the Red Flag*.

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser is the President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a think tank and activist Muslim organization which provides a platform for an American Muslim movement to separate spiritual Islam from the political. He is also a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and a respected physician currently in private practice specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Jasser has been active in a number of interfaith efforts in Arizona including founding the Children of Abraham, a Jewish-Muslim dialogue group. He also been an advisor on Islamic affairs to the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands. The Center for Security Policy honored him as a "Defender of the Home Front"; the Phoenix office of the FBI presented him with the 2007 Director's Community Leadership Award. Dr. Jasser was recently featured in the films, *The Third Jihad* and *Islam vs. Islamists*. He is a regular columnist and contributing editor for *FamilySecurityMatters.org* and *Hudson New York*. He appears frequently on the Fox News Channel and CNN, and has been published in the *National Review*, *Arizona Republic*, *Middle East Quarterly*, *Dallas Morning News*, *Washington Times*, and *Beliefnet*.