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David Roth has gained national attention for his unique songs, moving stories, and powerful singing and subject matter. David's material ranges from outright hilarious to poignant - taking his audience on an emotional landslide through well-crafted songs.

Greg Artzner and his wife Terry Leonino are Magpie. An outstanding guitarist whose fingerstyle approach owes a lot to his heroes, guitar legends such as Reverend Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Nick Lucas, Phil Ochs, and Rolly Brown, Greg's playing is the solid basis of Magpie's sound. From the beginning Terry and Greg's interests in various musical styles have led them to embrace a musical rainbow, and with impressive proficiency in each different genre. From traditional, classic country, swing, and blues of the nineteen twenties and thirties, to contemporary songs written by themselves and others, Terry and Greg cover a lot of musical ground.

Dale Allen Hoffman is an "eternal student of the Aramaic teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) and a 15-year teacher of spiritual insights from the ancient Aramaic language and culture. He has been a featured writer and guest for several publications and radio programs and is the Director of the international Aramaic Healing Circle. In its original form Dale's Asheville, North Carolina Aramaic Healing Circles had attendees traveling for hours from several neighboring states week after week to learn and apply the transformative insights from this ancient culture.

David Fisichella manages shipboard scientific services at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. His wife, Amy Bower, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Alex Petroff is originally from Alabama. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Carleton College (Northfield, MN). He is a doctoral student at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science. His research focuses on how the complex and intricate patterns in the natural world arise from simple physical laws.

Ethan Daniels is a photojournalist who spent his youth on the shores of New England. He currently combines his passions for natural history and photography to guide, teach, and create award-winning images. His photography and journalism has appeared in Scuba Diver Australasia, Cape Cod Life, Underwater Photography Magazine, and Sport Diving Magazine, among other international publications.

Don Walter is the Sr. Vice President, Investor Relations, of EpiCity, Inc. He leads the company’s development and capital group. EpiCity is a boutique real estate asset and property management group based specializing in southeastern real estate. EpiCity is continually recognized as a leader in community involvement. Prior to joining EpiCity Don was Chief Learning Officer at Alignment at Work, an Atlanta based management consultancy with local, national and international clients and CEO of Legacy Homes of Georgia, LLC. As an airline captain Don flew for Delta Air Lines from 1978 until 2005. During his tenure at Delta he became an outspoken advocate and educator for improving risk management skills in airline cockpits a program implemented across multiple cultures worldwide. As Director of Delta’s elite Pilot Instructor School Don’s team led the world airline effort to develop risk management programs to reduce airline accidents and incidents worldwide and is the recipient of awards from ALPA, FAA and industry. Since leaving Delta Don has adapted and integrated many of the aviation risk management skills into the business and educational environment through the Alignment at Work. Don can still be found in the cockpit of the L-1011 “Stargazer” a low orbital launch platform for the Orbital Science Corporation Pegasus program.

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, University of New England Expertise: Life history and population dynamics of sharks, skates, and rays; composition and spatial/temporal distribution of fish communities; physiological responses to stress and how this influences by-catch mortality; environmental adaptations in fish; conservation of fish communities; and trophic interactions between fish species. Ph.D., Zoology, University of New Hampshire M.S., Physiology, DePaul University M.S., Marine Biology, Nova Southeastern University B.S., Biology, Dennison University Post-Doctoral Training Zoology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

Anita Metzler has worked at the New England Aquarium since 2004. She started her Aquarium career as a Program Educator where she attained many unique and fantastic skills before moving on to manage the Lobster Facility in 2005. Her prior research experience includes crab ecology, plant genetic variation, and zebrafish developmental biology.

Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of eleven previous books, including five novels and the memoirs *Note Found in a Bottle* and *Home Before Dark*. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She writes a weekly column for Newsday and teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program.

**Shawn Kelly** is an electrical engineer and a Senior Systems Scientist on the research faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, working on developing new medical technologies. His technical focus has been on analog and mixed signal VLSI design, power and data telemetry, magnetic link design, and hermetic packaging design. He has applied these skills to implantable medical systems, specifically neural stimulators. His current work, an extension of his masters and PhD projects with the Boston Retinal Implant Project, involves the development of a retinal prosthesis for the blind.

Matt Morrison grew up with Martin McGuinness as well as several other, nonpublic and top‐level leaders of the IRA. The eldest of seven children, Mr. Morrison was born in Derry, Northern Ireland’s second‐largest city, in 1955. He grew up in a two‐bedroom house with his aunt, grandmother, parents and siblings. As was the case in the rest of Northern Ireland, only one adult per house had the right to vote. Mr. Morrison attended St. Columb’s College, a prestigious boys’ school that has produced several Nobel Prize winners, including the 1998 Peace Prize co‐winner John Hume (whom Mr. Morrison personally knows) and the poet Seamus Heany. Just 16 years old, Mr. Morrison attended a civil rights march with his father. After 13 unarmed protesters were shot and killed by British paratroopers, it came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.” After the march, with dozens like him who had witnessed firsthand the protest and shootings, he joined the IRA. As a university student in 1975, Mr. Morrison was arrested and sentenced on political charges by a “diplock” (non‐jury) court. He was subjected to interrogation methods which left him with permanent hearing‐loss in one ear. Despite his young age, while in prison, Mr. Morrison was appointed one of the highest‐ranking IRA officers, and he conducted countless meetings with British and Irish officials ‐ at their request ‐ as well as with infamous, top‐level Loyalist paramilitaries. Upon his release in 1985, Mr. Morrison came to the U.S. and married an American citizen. In the mid‐1990s, CBS Television produced a documentary featuring the legal struggles he faced living openly as a former IRA member. The Immigration and Naturalization Service categorized him, and all other former IRA members living in the U.S., as deportable. Mr. Morrison led meetings with Gerry Adams, former IRA leader and president of its political wing, Sinn F´ein, during negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. That Agreement conferred a unique political/legal status on former IRA members living in the U.S., one which guarded against their deportation and conferred a host of rights upon them. Now a nurse and part‐time Gaelic language teacher, Mr. Morrison lives in St. Louis, Missouri. He often speaks on the conflict and peace process in Northern Ireland, on immigrant civil rights issues at universities, including a 2008 issue at Case Western Reserve, and for non‐profit organizations, such as Children for Peace in Ireland.