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Liz Brunner is co-anchor of *NewsCenter 5* at 6 p.m. She also co-anchors the Friday edition of the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts and serves as anchor/reporter for WCVB-TV/DT's major news coverage. Brunner first joined the station in September 1993 as a reporter and fill-in anchor for WCVB's nightly newsmagazine, *Chronicle*. She has also co-anchored *the EyeOpener* newscast. In 1995, Brunner received a New England Emmy for a Chronicle program *Cape Cod by Air*. She has also been honored for her community work, including a 1991 Communications Achievement Award from the American Women in Radio and Television. In addition, *Boston Magazine* named Liz Brunner the Best Newcomer to the Boston media market in August 1994. Brunner is actively involved with the March of Dimes Walk America, the American Heart Association's Heart Walk and the Berkshire Hills Music Academy for Children With Williams Syndrome. She currently serves as Executive Vice President of AWRT/New England, the local chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. Born in Connecticut, Brunner was raised in Hawaii and Illinois. She received a Bachelor of Music at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wis. She resides in a Boston suburb.

Walker is a columnist for *the Boston Globe* city/region section. He provides commentary and opinion on local and regional news as well as society and culture. Walker started as a *Boston Globe* metro columnist in 1998.

I am the Assistant Dean for Sustainability and Strategic Planning in the College but I wear many interesting hats. My responsibilities include sustainability issues for the College, working on outreach and internships. I recently started at Colorado State University after a five year stint at Texas A&M University as the National Park Service's Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit leader. In that capacity I worked with parks throughout the Gulf Coast area from Florida to Texas. I have over 20 years of National Park Service experience at parks as a wildlife ecologist. My main career has been with the National Park Service as an ecologist and I have worked on a wonderful mix of organisms from butterflies to bison to tortoises! I have worked in seven national parks including Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Badlands National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Fort Clatsop National Memorial, Wrangel St. Elias National Park and Preserve, and the main NPS office along the Gulf Coast including Padre Island National Seashore, Big Thicket National Preserve and Washington DC. Before coming to Colorado, I worked at parks along the Gulf Coast, including Padre Island National Seashore, Big Thicket National Preserve and San Antonio Missions.

Kevin Krajick is a prizewinning journalist whose articles have appeared in *National Geographic*, *Newsweek*, *The New York Times*, *Science*, *Discover*, *Audubon*, *Smithsonian* and many other publications. He was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Public Service and won the American Geophysical Union's 1998 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism.

Marjorie Agosin (born 1955) is an award-winning poet, activist, and professor. She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. She has won notability for her outspokenness for women rights in Chile. The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights. She also won many important literary awards. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2002.

Maria T. Zuber is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she also leads the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Zuber has been involved in more than half a dozen NASA planetary missions aimed at mapping the Moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroids. She received her B.A. in astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania and Sc.M. and Ph.D. in geophysics from Brown University. She was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University and served as a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. She received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Brown University in 2008.