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Amy has just published *Opting In: Having A Child Without Losing Yourself*. Before that she co-authored (with Jennifer Baumgardner)* Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism* and *Manifesta: Young Women Feminism and the Future*. Over the years she has worked as a consultant to Gloria Steinem, Anna Deavere Smith and the Columbia School of Public Health among other places. She is on the board of advisors to *Ms. Magazine* and the counsel of advocates to Planned Parenthood New York City. Amy is also a board member to The Lower East Side Girls Club, Fair Fund, and the Sadie Nash Leadership Institute. And most of her "training" in being an effective activist came from her involvement with the Third Wave Foundation. Since Third Wave's inception in 1992, she helped it grow from an organization struggling to find a place within the feminist movement to being one of only a few organizations for young feminists.

Born in 1938, Cynthia Enloe spent her early life on Long Island in a New York suburb. After completing her undergraduate education at Connecticut College in 1960, she went on to earn an M.A. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1967 in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Enloe currently serves as a professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University, Worcester. She is also the Director of Clark University's Women Studies program and a frequent lecturer. In addition to serving as an editor for such scholarly journals as *Signs* and the *International Feminist Journal of Politics*, Cynthia Enloe has written nine books, mostly published by the University of California Press. Much of Enloes research centers on womens place in national and international politics. Her books cover a wide range of issues encompassing gender-based discrimination as well as racial, ethnic and national identities.

Jennifer Baumgardner is the author of Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics and the co-author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. She is also the producer of the film, I Had an Abortion, and the creator of a corresponding t-shirt, photo, and public education campaign. She has written for Harper's, The Nation, Glamour, Jane, and NPR's All Things Considered, among other venues, and her work has been featured in The New York Times and on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Donal Fox is internationally acclaimed as composer, pianist, and improviser in both the jazz and classical fields. His numerous awards include a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition, a 1998 Fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), and 1999, 2001, and 2003 nominations for a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. Fox's exciting and innovative "Jazz Duet Series" has included concerts, recordings, and collaborations with Oliver Lake, John Stubblefield, Billy Pierce, Regina Carter, among others. He has recorded as composer and pianist for New World Records, Evidence Records, Music and Arts, Passin' Thru Records, and others. Fox served as the first African-American composer-in-residence with the St. Louis Symphony from 1991 to 1992. In the l993-94 season, Fox was a special guest artist at the Library of Congress in a program that was recorded by NPR, and was a visiting artist at Harvard University where he received a Certificate of Recognition from the President of Harvard College for his contribution to the arts. In 2003 and 2004, Fox held artist-in-residence posts at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Northern Ireland and the Oberfzer Knstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. He was named Top Ten Jazz Act in 2004 in the company of Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, and Ron Carter by jazz journalist Bill Beuttler of The Boston Globe.

Professor Wolbers received a B.S. degree in biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego, in 1971. He also received an M.F.A. degree from the same institution in painting in 1977. In 1984, he earned an M.S. degree in art conservation from WUDPAC. His research interests include work in developing cleaning systems for fine art materials, as well as microscopically applied techniques for the characterization of paint binding materials. Professor Wolbers has collaborated on research projects with The Getty Conservation Institute, Columbia University, and ICCROM in Rome. He has conducted workshops on his cleaning methods in Australia, England, Canada, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Italy and various locations throughout the United States. In winter, 1991, he was featured on *Infinite Voyage*, and presented an interactive satellite lecture from the University of Pittsburgh campus. In 2000 he published *Cleaning Paintings: Aqueous Methods* (London), and has co-authored a chapter in *Furniture Conservation* (2003).