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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.

Philip Cash received his PhD from Boston College and is Professor Emeritus at Emmanuel College. He has written extensively on medicine in Colonial Massachusetts.

Katherine Paterson is the author of twelve novels for children and young people including *Bridge to Terabithia* and J*acob Have I Loved*, Newbery Winners in 1978 and 1981, and *The Great Gilly Hopkins*, a Newbery Honor Book. *The Great Gilly Hopkins* and *The Master Puppeteer* were National Book Award winners in 1979 and 1977. Her novel, *Lyddie*, set in Vermont and Massachusetts in the 1840's was the 1994 United States representative for writing on the Honor List of the International Board of Books for Young People. Other award winning novels include, *Flip-Flop Girl*, which was an ALA Notable Book, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a Parent's Choice Story Book Award winner in 1994 and was named a Notable Book of 1994 by *The New York Times*. Her novel, *Jip, His Story*, is the recipient of the 1997 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, an ALA Notable Book and a Best Book for Young Adults. *Preacher's Boy*, published in 1999, received the Jefferson Cup from the Virginia Library Association. Ms. Paterson was born in Quinn Jingo, China. She is a graduate of King College, Bristol, Tennessee and holds master's degrees from both the Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Richmond, Virginia and Union Theological Seminary, New York City. The Patersons live in Barre where Dr. Paterson recently retired as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. They are the parents of four grown children. They have two granddaughters, a grandson, and are expecting another grandchild in the fall.