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Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for *Commentary*, has been a columnist and a member of *the Chicago Tribune*'s editorial board since 1984. His column is syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services. His articles have been published in *Chicago Magazine*, *The Chicago Reader*, *Washington Monthly*, *New Republic*, *The Wall Street Journal*, *New York Newsday*, and *Emerge*. He has appeared as a guest on ABC's *Nightline*, *The Today Show*, and *Sunday Morning with David Brinkley*. Page is also an occasional guest panelist on *The McLaughlin Group*, a regular contributor of essays to *News Hour with Jim Lehrer*, and an occasional host of documentaries on PBS. Page's awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI award for community service for an investigative series entitled *The Black Tax *and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting of a 1976 series on the changing politics of Southern Africa . Page also participated in a 1972 *Chicago Tribune* Task Force series on vote fraud which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has received awards from the Illinois and Wisconsin chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union for his columns on civil liberties and constitutional rights. He was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 1992. Page received his Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Ohio University in 1969, where he was the commencement speaker in 1993. He has received honorary doctorates from Columbia College in Chicago , Lake Forest College , and Nazareth College in Rochester.

Yo-Yo Ma attended Juilliard School. He sought out a traditional liberal arts education to expand upon his conservatory training, graduating from Harvard University in 1976. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize (1978), the Glenn Gould Prize (1999), the National Medal of the Arts (2001), the Dan David Prize (2006), the Sonning Prize (2006), and the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (2008). Appointed a CultureConnect Ambassador by the United States Department of State in 2002, Yo-Yo Ma has met with, trained and mentored thousands of students worldwide including Lithuania, Korea, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and China. He has performed with and conducted master classes for members of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, Secretary General Kofi Annan named him a UN Messenger of Peace and in 2007 Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon extended his appointment. Yo-Yo Ma is strongly committed to educational programs that not only bring young audiences into contact with music but also allow them to participate in its creation. He has also reached young audiences through appearances on *Arthur*, *Mister Rogers' Neighborhood* and *Sesame Street*.

Paul Zintl is Chief Operating Officer for Partners In Health (PIH) and Senior Advisor for Planning and Finance for the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change (PIDSC) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also currently serving as the chair of the Drug Management Sub-Committee within the Stop TB Partnership. Prior to joining PIH/HMS, Mr. Zintl was a managing director of J.P. Morgan & Co. in New York, where he worked for 18 years, until 1995. In this capacity, his responsibilities included management, control, analysis, and evaluation of the firm's trading businesses. After leaving J.P. Morgan, he studied state criminal justice systems and worked as a private consultant for two years. In 1998 he received a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Paul G. Schervish is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (CWP) at Boston College, and National Research Fellow at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, and to the John Templeton Foundation. Schervish was appointed a Fulbright Scholar for the 2000-2001 academic year at University College Cork in the area of research on philanthropy. He has been selected five times to the NonProfit Times annual Power and Influence Top 50, a list which acknowledges the most effective leaders in the non-profit world. He received a bachelor's degree in classical and comparative literature from the University of Detroit, a Masters in sociology from Northwestern University, a Masters of Divinity Degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Schervish has published in the areas of philanthropy, the sociology of money, the sociology of wealth, labor markets, unemployment, biographical narrative, and sociology of religion. He presented the 2008 Annual Lecture for the Lake Family Institute on Faith and Giving which is published as *Receiving & Giving as Spiritual Exercise: The Spirituality of Care in Soul, Relationship, and Community*. He is completing work on Wealth and the Will of God: Discerning the Use of Riches in the Service of Ultimate Purpose (Forthcoming 2009) and *The Moral Biography of Wealth and the New Physics of Philanthropy*. Schervish is the editor of and contributor to *Wealth in Western Thought: The Case for and against Riches* (1994). He is principal editor of *Care and Community in Modern Society* (1995) and the principal author of *Taking Giving Seriously *(1993) and *Gospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray their Lives* (1994).

David T. Scadden received his M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Following his internship and residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, he completed a Clinical Fellowship in Medicine and in Hematology/Oncology at the Harvard Medical School, the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Subsequently, he was a Research Fellow at these institutions working with James M. Cunningham and later at the New England Medical Center working with Robert S. Schwartz and John M. Coffin. He joined the faculty at Harvard University as an Instructor and is presently Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center of Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Scadden's research interests are focused on the bone marrow and stem cell biology. He is particularly interested in the regulation of entry and exit from the cell cycle, as this has important implications for expansion of stem cells and gene transduction. He is also interested in the regulation of stem cell localization to and within specific microenvironments and the interactions of stem cells with elements of the microenvironmental niche. These studies are critically important in understanding how stem cells develop and how they may function in regenerative processes in many organs. His work has been published in many outstanding journals including *Nature*, *Nature Medicine*, *Science*, *Nature Biotechnology*, *Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA*, the *Journal of Clinical Investigation*, and the* Journal of Immunology and Blood*. He has received many honors, including elected membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He serves on the editorial boards for many journals including *Blood, Stem Cells, and Experimental Hematology*, and he is an Associate Editor for *Blood*.

Andrea J. Cabral was elected on November 2, 2004 and sworn in on January 5, 2005 as the 30th Sheriff of Suffolk County. She is the first female in the Commonwealths history to hold the position. In her 21 year career in public service, she has a demonstrated a commitment to public safety. Sheriff Cabral began her legal career in 1986 as a staff attorney at the Suffolk County Sheriffs Department at the Charles Street Jail, working to prepare and argue motions for bail reduction for the Suffolk Superior Court. Subsequently, she served as an assistant district attorney at the Middlesex County District Attorneys Office from 19871991. Sheriff Cabrals published works include *Obtaining, Enforcing and Defending x.209A Restraining Orders in Massachusetts *and coauthored *Same Gender Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change in Creating Courtroom Accessibility*.

Elyse Clawson currently serves as the Executive Director of the Crime and Justice Institute. She brings over 30 years of experience and a substantial background in criminal and juvenile justice, substance abuse and mental health treatment, and education. Throughout her career, Ms. Clawson has worked extensively with elected officials and other policy makers as both a national consultant and department director. Elyse Clawson provides consultation on policy and practice in criminal/ juvenile justice, and human services for state and local government. She also makes presentations to professional organizations, legislatures, and other policy groups. She is currently a member of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections Advisory Council and was recently appointed to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Department expert panel tasked with reviewing Department of Corrections programs and system both in the institution and upon reentry. She is a member of American Probation and Parole Associations, American Corrections Association, and National Association of Probation Executives. She is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

Ngo Vinh Long received a PhD in east Asian history and far eastern languages from Harvard University in 1978 and joined the Department of History at Maine in 1985, offering a variety of courses on East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the relations of the countries in these regions with each other and with the United States. Currently, he teaches the introductory survey of East Asian Civilization (HTY 107), South and Southeast Asia (HTY 108), History of Modern China (HTY 436), History of Modern Japan (HTY 437), The United States and Vietnam: A History (HTY 442), and The Cold War and Its Aftermath in East Asia (HTY 599.) This last course is a graduate seminar designed to give graduate students a detailed examination of the Cold War in East Asia from the perspectives of the major power as well as those of the impacted nations in the region. The aim is to give graduate students the necessary background and overall analysis on the relationships and interactions between national and international issues during this crucial period so as to enable these students to develop courses of their own once they begin their teaching careers. In addition to these regular courses he also offers Research and Reading Courses (HTY 550) to both undergraduates as well as graduate students every year.

Linda Pinkow is a media activist who has been co-news director of WMBR, community radio at MIT, since 1995. She began doing radio in 1979 at WBRS, where she served as program director, special productions director, and producer. From 1986 through 1993, Pinkow was a member of the Great Atlantic Radio Conspiracy, a collectively produced, leftist public affairs program that was aired on dozens of radio stations.