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Brigitte Cazalis-Collins founded the Friends of Maiti Nepal as the official representative of Maiti Nepal in the United States in 2001. She and her husband, Joseph H. Collins, have lived and worked in Nepal intermittently for more than twenty years. In 2001, Cazalis-Colins devoted her efforts to the struggle against human trafficking, increasing awareness of sex trafficking, and raising funds for Maiti Nepal. She has also directed and implemented major outreach projects assisting refugees and women both in the U.S. and in Nepal. In the U.S. she was a member of the founding board of the Tibetan Resettlement Project, which provided sponsors, housing, employment and counseling to Tibetan families who immigrated to the U.S. under the Immigration Act of 1992.

Carol J. Oja is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music. Professor Oja's research focuses on 20th-century American musical traditions. Her book, *Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920's* (2000), won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other books include *Copland and his World* (co-edited with Judith Tick, 2005); *Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds*; *A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock*; and *American Music Recordings: A Discography of 20th-Century U.S. Composers*. She is at work on a book provisionally titled *Leonard Bernstein and Broadway*, and she is past-president of the Society for American Music. During 2008-09, she is a fellow at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.

Ellen Guiney is executive director of the Boston Plan for Excellence, Boston Annenberg Challenge, a local education fund. Since September 1996, the BPE has concentrated over $2 million/year supporting 27 Boston schools (20% of the district) in their transformation of core teaching activities, their use of existing resources, and their accountability to parents and the public. With the reorganization of the Boston Annenberg Challenge in August 1999, Ms. Guiney now also serves as co-director of the Challenge. The Boston Plan has since taken responsibility for managing the reform work in an additional 36 public schools. Prior to her work at the BPE, Ms. Guiney was chief education advisor to the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, and one of the Democratic staff leaders on Goals 2000/ESEA Reauthorization. She has also served as education advisor to the mayor of Boston during the transition to an appointed school board, and is a former high school English teacher.

Dr. Daley received a PhD in biology from MIT and an MD degree from Harvard Medical School through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and has received research awards from Harvard Medical School, the National Institutes of Health, the New England Cancer Society, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America.

Dr. Pride Chigwedere is an affiliate of the Harvard AIDS Initiative. He trained and worked as a physician at Harare Central Hospital, Zimbabwe, and then moved to the Harvard School of Public Health where he completed a doctorate in immunology and infectious diseases and post-doctoral training with renowned retrovirologist, Dr. Max Essex. He then joined McKinsey and Company where he has been advising the senior management of top pharmaceutical companies and global health institutions primarily in areas of business strategy and medical affairs. He is the lead author of the paper published in The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes estimating the human toll of South Africa's AIDS policies, which has received wide publicity including The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC and other leading news organizations around the world.

Mark Jurkowitz, Associate Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, has spent nearly two decades covering the news media. He was the press critic and author of the Boston Phoenix's Don't Quote Me column from 1987-1994 and again from July 2005 until June 2006. In between, he spent 10 years at The Boston Globe, initially as the paper's ombudsman and then as its first full-time media beat writer. A graduate of Boston University, Jurkowitz has taught a course on media ethics at both Northeastern University and Tufts University and has been a commentator on media-related issues on outlets ranging from CNN's Reliable Sources to NPR's On the Media. He has also made more than 300 appearances as a regular panelist on Beat the Press, a weekly program on Boston's WGBH-TV that scrutinizes the journalism profession. In the 1990's, he spent a number of years as a radio talk host on WHDH-AM and WRKO-AM in Boston.

Kevin Loughlin, MD, MBA, completed degrees at Princeton University, New York Medical College, Harvard University, and Boston University. He is currently the director of Urologic Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. He has been selected for "Best Doctors in America" and "Top Doctors" by The Center for the Study of Services in Washington, D.C., and has published more than two hundred articles, abstracts, and letters in prominent publications such as *New England Journal of Medicine*.

Dr. DeMaria serves as medical director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease Prevention, Response and Services in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is also the state epidemiologist for Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Boston University and Harvard Medical School. He trained in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York and in infectious diseases at Boston City Hospital and the Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the Department of Public Health in 1989, he was an infectious diseases consultant in private practice and prior to that on the staff of The Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston City Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. DeMaria is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and serves on committees of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and on the boards of the Massachusetts Public Health Association and The Public Health Museum.