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pJamie S. Gorelick serves as a partner of WilmerHale, a Washington D.C. and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Ms. Gorelick served as a deputy attorney general of the United States from 1994 to 1997. She served as a general counsel of the Department of Defense, assistant to the Secretary of Energy, and most recently as member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Threats Upon the United States. She served as a vice chairman of MacArthur Foundation and Fannie Mae Foundation. Ms. Gorelick has been a director of Schlumberger Ltd. since 2002 and United Technologies Corp. since 2000. She has been a member of Government Advisory Board of Lucent Technologies Inc. since November 2005. She serves as a director of the Harvard Overseers and the boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, America's Promise and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, as well as other civic organizations.

Honor Moore is the author of The Bishop's Daughter (2008), a memoir, that was simultaneously released in paperback (May 2009) with a reissue of her 1996 biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter. The Bishop's Daughter was named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times, a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times and chosen by the National Book Critics Circle as part of their "Good Reads" recommended reading list. It was also selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In April 2009, Library of America published Poems from the Women's Movement, an anthology edited by Honor Moore. She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir, and her play Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women's Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, which she edited. Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts and in 2004 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In addition to Poems from the Women's Movement, she is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and co-editor of The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt and teaches in the graduate writing programs at the New School. From 2005 to 2007, she was an off-Broadway theatre critic for The New York Times.

Paul Rieckhoff is the executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest organization for veterans of the War on Terror. During his time in the Adamiyah section of central Baghdad, he led his light infantry platoon on hundreds of combat patrols with the 3rd Infantry and 1st Armored Divisions. He continues to serve his country as an Infantry Officer in the New York Army National Guard. Rieckhoff is a nationally-recognized authority on the war in Iraq and issues affecting our troops, military families, and veterans at home. He is a frequent TV and radio commentator and has appeared on ABC's *This Week with George Stephanopoulos*, Fox's *Hannity & Colmes*, NBC *Nightly News*, *60 Minutes II*, CNN's *Paula Zahn Now*, ABC's *World News Tonight*, *Hardball with Chris Matthews*, Air America's *Al Franken Show*, and NPR's *All Things Considered*, among many other programs. He and IAVA have also been featured across the country in numerous major national newspapers and magazines. He was named one of "America's Best and Brightest of 2004" by *Esquire*. Prior to his deployment to Iraq, Rieckhoff worked as a high school football coach and an investment banking analyst on Wall Street, and later spent several weeks contributing to the rescue effort at Ground Zero after 9/11. He is a graduate of Amherst College, where he studied political science. He lives in New York City's East Village.

Scott Allen Miller (also known as Scotto) is an American talk radio personality. He was most recently the morning drive host and program director at WROW in Albany, New York. Miller has been named one of America's top talk show hosts by Talkers Magazine. At 38 years of age, he is the youngest major market morning drive talk show host in the United States. Miller's calling cards are his knowledge of a wide variety of issues, his clever sense of humor, his personal engagement with his audience, and his fiercely independent points of view. The Boston Radio Hall of Fame website declares, "Miller is for the most part, a fair and balanced talk show host with a deeply developed thought process and a slight chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. [sic] ... Miller stands out on this landmark talk radio station." Politically, Miller leans libertarian but differs strongly with the Libertarian Party on matters of criminal justice, national defense, and immigration.

Michael E. Porter is a leading authority on competitive strategy, the competitiveness and economic development of nations, states, and regions, and the application of competitive principles to social problems such as health care, the environment, and corporate responsibility. Professor Porter is generally recognized as the father of the modern strategy field and has been identified in a variety of rankings and surveys as the world’s most influential thinker on management and competitiveness. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. In 2001, Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, dedicated to furthering Professor Porter’s work. He is the author of 18 books and more than 125 articles, including his latest work, Redefining Healthcare: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results and On Competition.

Gary Nash is professor emeritus of history at the University of California at Los Angeles and has been the director of the National Center for History in the Schools since 1994. As the director of the National Center for History in the Schools, Nash oversees the publication of over 60 teaching units on specific issues and dramatic events in US and world history, designed for grades 5 through 12. From 1992 to 1996, Professor Nash co-chaired the National History Standards Project, which landed him in the middle of ideological debates about how history should be taught to young people, whose history should be taught, and the merits of multiculturalism in the classroom. Some said the Standards were too multicultural; others said they were not multicultural enough. It is this type of eloquent and consistent defense of an expansive view of history and the teaching of history that characterizes the eleven books Nash has written during his career. His first book, *Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726*, published in 1968, won a prize from the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, for best book in American history. His 1979 book, *The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution*, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history, and it won the Commonwealth Club of California's Silver Prize in literature. In 1988, his *Forging Freedom: the Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840*, won the prize for best book from the Society for the History of the Early American Republic. Other titles include *Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America* (1974; also published in Spanish); *The Private Side of American History: Readings in Everyday Life (1975); Race, Class, and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society* (1986); *American Odyssey: The United States in the Twentieth Century* (1991); and *First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory* (2001). Nash has co-authored or co-edited eight books and has written more than 20 book chapters, 35 articles, and over 80 reviews, article reviews, op-ed essays and commentaries. His latest book is *African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom*.

Willard Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts from 2003 until 2007, when he began an unsuccessful run for president of the United States. Romney is a successful businessman with a political pedigree: his father, George Romney, was the governor of Michigan from 1963-69 and ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1968. (He was defeated by Richard Nixon.) Mitt Romney graduated from Brigham Young University in 1971, and earned both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard in 1975. Romney worked for the management consulting firm Bain & Company before founding the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984. Romney became a national figure in 1999 when he took over as president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee and helped rescue the 2002 Winter Olympics from money and ethical problems. The Salt Lake City Games went off on time and on budget in 2002, and later that year Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts. He served one term, then declined to run for reelection in 2006. In February 2007 he announced a run for the presidency; he ended his run in February 2008, after falling behind John McCain in early Republican primaries. Romney married the former Ann Davies in 1969; they have five sons. Ann Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998... Romney ran for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts in 1994, losing to longtime incumbent Edward Kennedy. Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Romney wrote the 2004 book *Turnaround : Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games*.

Timothy Long, of Muscogee Creek and Choctaw Native American descent, grew up playing many instruments in his native Oklahoma. He studied piano and violin at Oklahoma City University and completed graduate studies in piano performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music. He is a faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mr. Long is in his first season on the New York City Opera conducting staff and will be conducting Britten's *The Turn of the Screw *at the Stony Brook Opera. He will also be making his mainstage conducting debuts at Boston Lyric Opera in Rachel Portman's *The Little Prince* and at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis conducting performances of Rigoletto and Gounod's* Romeo and Juliette*. Mr. Long served as assistant conductor to Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Philharmonic for three years and has conducted three tours for Boston Lyric Opera-Opera New England as well as performances at The Juilliard School, Yale Opera, Stony Brook Opera, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in a performance broadcast on WNYC.