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Cynthia Close is the executive director of Documentary Educational Resources.

In addition to her extensive experience as a private investment manager, Kim is co-chair of Hampton's International Film Festival, Films of Conflict & Resolution, where she oversees an international advisory board in the development and production of a juried section of films from conflict zones of the world. She is also involved with the festival's Science in Films section, and works with Children's Media Project to facilitate student participation in the festival. She has also served as a grants maker for the Threshold Foundation, where she designated funds to non-profit organizations that focus on peace and national security issues; as author of numerous policy and position papers, grants proposals and freelance articles; and as a reporter for *East Side Express* and *The Philadelphia Inquirer*.

Judith Vecchione has contributed to many major documentary series, including *Nova*, *American Experience*, *Vietnam: A Television History*, and *Frontline*. She won an Emmy and a Red Ribbon at the American Film Festival for her work on Vietnam, and was Series Senior Producer and Producer of the first two programs of the critically acclaimed documentary series *Eyes on the Prize*. She has been Executive Producer for a number of award-winning national PBS documentary series, including *Americas*, 10 hours of programming on Latin America and the Caribbean; *The China Trilogy* ("China in Revolution," "The Mao Years," and "Born Under the Red Flag"); a three-part international coproduction, *De Gaulle and France*; and a six-part series on women scientists today, *Discovering Women*. She has produced specials, including "Fire Wars," which aired on *Nova*, and "Tug of War: The Story of Taiwan"; and she was Executive Producer for the film biographies *Eleanor Roosevelt* and *Mary Pickford* (for *American Experience*), and for *China in the Red* and *Young & Restless in China* (for *Frontline*.) She was also WGBH's Executive Producer for Martin Scorsese's multi-platform series, *The Blues*. Her programs have won awards from American Women in Radio and Television, the Chicago Film Festival, the Columbus International Film and Video Festival, the USrrr International Film and Video Festival, as well as the George Foster Peabody Award, three Christopher Awards and four CINE Golden Eagles, among others. In addition to her programming responsibilities, Vecchione is Executive Director for the Producers Workshops at WGBH, an initiative of CPB and PBS that has trained more than 150 national and regional producers, from public broadcasting stations and from the independent community, over the past eight years. Workshop participants have come from 40 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico; 48% of the Workshoppers have been minorities. Projects in development include an ITVS-funded special on Latino civil rights after World War II, *The Battle After the War* (working title), and films on Johnny Cash and on public health.

Eileen Newman has been named Executive Director of the National Board of Review. Previously she has most recently served as the Senior Director of Programming at IFP/NY. Before joining IFP, Eileen served as Executive Director of Film/Video Arts. Ms. Newman was formerly a program officer at New Visions for Public Schools, an educational non-profit where she assisted in the creation of small New York City elementary and secondary schools. She has worked in education and media for over 30 years as an administrator and a teacher working for the Department of Education in New York City and as a professor of film studies at Adelphi University. In addition, Ms. Newman has served on the boards of New York Women in Film as Vice-President of Programming and Membership, the New York Production Alliance, the Film and Video Council, and on the Advisory Board of DocuClub. Her work at Film/Video Arts included working closely with hundreds of filmmakers providing technical support through the fiscal sponsorship program.

Geeta Pradhan is Director of the New Economy Initiative at the Boston Foundation and co-developer of the Boston Indicators Project. She co-authored the 2000 and 2002 Boston Indicators reports, The Wisdom of Our Choices and Creativity and Innovation: A Bridge to the Future. At the Boston Foundation, Geeta also developed and launched The New Economy Initiative a special five year effort that uses networking, constituency building and grant making to reduce the digital divide and to empower young people, adults and nonprofit organizations to compete effectively in the 21st century.

Margaret Honey is a former vice president of Education Development Center and former director of EDC's Center for Children and Technology. She has worked in the field of educational research since 1981. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University in developmental psychology and has spent her career conducting research on the role of media in children's learning and development. Dr. Honey is currently Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Research at Wireless Generation. She is also a project director at CCT.

Bill Sargent is a NOVA consultant and author of 5 books on science and the environment. He studied plankton as a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and was the first director of the National Aquarium in Baltimore. He has taught Science Writing at Harvard University and Marine Biology at the Briarwood Field Station in Bourne. Bill has worked on the status of horseshoe crabs in Pleasant Bay. This research was used in the creation of two reserves for this strategic biomedical resource.

David D. Daniels III joined the faculty of McCormick Theological Seminary in 1987 and was inaugurated professor of Church History in 2003. David received the Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1976, majoring in religion and economics. In 1979 he obtained the Master of Divinity from Yale University. During his years at Yale, he was a Benjamin E. Mays Fellow for the Fund for Theological Education. David earned a PhD in church history from Union Theological Seminary in New York in May 1992. From 1979 to 1983, he was instructor of religion at the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. David has been a member of the American Academy of Religion since 1989, the Society for the Study of Black Religion since 1993 and the Society for Pentecostal Studies since 1979. He is a member of the steering committee of the Evangelical Theology Group and Afro-American History Group of the American Academy of Religion. He is a member of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and Pentecostal International Dialogue. He has served as commissioner for the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches USA for the 1988-91 quadrennium and has participated on consultations sponsored by the National council of Churches in the US and the World Council of Churches in the US and Costa Rica. He is author of various articles on the history of Christianity and book reviews published in *Theological Education in Pneuma, Christianity Century, Encyclopedia of African American Religions*, and* A Sourcebook for the Community of Religions*. David also served as an advisor to *Legacy of A Leader*, a 1991 video documentary on Charles Harrison Mason. He serves on the editorial committee of a new history of World Christianity project funded by Orbis Press.

Robert Michael Franklin is an African-American educator, author, and the 10th president of Morehouse College, a renowned historically black college located in Atlanta, Georgia. Franklin officially took office on July 2, 2007, replacing retiring President Walter Massey. Previously, Franklin served as Presidential Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University and the leader of Emory's university wide, multi million dollar initiative, "Confronting the Human Condition and the Human Experience," that focuses on themes of religion, race, and global health. He also is a senior fellow in the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Religion at the Emory University School of Law. Franklin's major fields of study include social ethics, psychology, and African-American religion. Listed among the "Honor Roll of Great Black Preachers," he has served on the faculties of his alma maters, The University of Chicago and Harvard Divinity Schools, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and the Candler School of Theology where he gained a national reputation as director of Black Church Studies. In his former role as program officer in Human Rights and Social Justice at the Ford Foundation, he served as an advisor to the president of the foundation on issues related to future funding for religion and public life initiatives.

Dr. Callahan, was a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as assistant professor of religious studies. She has also served as the Assistant Professor of Modern Church History and African American Studies at New York Theological Seminary. A native of Gary, West Virginia, she experienced her first Christian education and formation at Apostolic Temple Church where she developed an enduring love for Jesus Christ and for Christ's body, the Church. Having experienced her call to ministry at an early age, Callahan began the public proclamation of the gospel at age 19. Her formal education includes the Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Harvard/Radcliffe and the Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Religion from Princeton University. Her research interests include religious history in the United States, particularly independent African American Christianity and Pentecostal studies.

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She is also an ordained Baptist minister and serves as the Assistant Minister at Union Baptist Church in Boston.