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Cullen Murphy was the managing editor of *The Atlantic Monthly* from 1985 to 2002 and the magazine's de facto editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2005. He is the author of *The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own* and *Are We Rome?* He is currently the editor-at-large of *Vanity Fair*.

Robert Perkins is an accomplished storyteller, having most recently been a featured presenter at the New England Sharing the Fire Festival. His stories are for ages from 12 and up.

Elizabeth Johns is Professor Emerita of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and Lilly Fellow, Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture, College of the Holy Cross. She is also the author of *American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life* (1991) and *Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life* (1983).

After her graduation from New York University of Law, Walz moved to Boston, Massachusetts where she worked at the law firm of Palmer & Dodge until 1992. Later that year, Walz worked for Harcourt General, Inc., where she managed the company's global labor and employment law practice for a period of seven years. Prior to her run for office, Walz was the Vice President of Development at Jumpstart for Young Children, a national nonprofit based in Boston that pairs college students with preschool children who are at risk of entering school unprepared for success. In 2004 Walz announced that she was running in the Democratic State Primary to be a candidate for election to the Eighth Suffolk District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. On September 14, 2004, in her first bid for elective office, Walz won the Democratic nomination for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, winning every precinct in the district. On November, 2nd of 2004, Walz was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives defeating her opponent, Republican Richard L. Babson.

Economic justice activist Betsy Leondar-Wright is the communications director at United for a Fair Economy. She has worked in mixed-class movements for over 25 years. Betsy Leondar-Wright is a long-time economic justice activist who has been Communications Director at United for a Fair Economy since 1998. A veteran of many conflicts along class and race lines, she has worked across class lines in a number of roles.

Michelle Cromwell is an Assistant Professor at Pine Manor College and a Center Associate at PMC's Center for Inclusive Leadership and Social Responsibility. She holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University, Florida. Her areas of specialty include: Multiculturalism, Violence Prevention, Peace Making/Keeping, Social Capital, Coalition and Capacity Building, Race and Ethnic Relations, Conflict Transformation, and Culturally Sensitive Mediation. As a lecturer she teaches in both the Management and Social and Political Systems Departments. Cromwell also works as an independent consultant and lecturer and is the founder of Multicultural Perspectives, a company that works with human systems to enable them to see the world through different lenses.

Morning producer/announcer Elaine Kennedy grew up in a musical family in Waterloo, Iowa and began piano lessons at age 5. Later, she studied clarinet, oboe and voice. She graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa with a fine arts degree in music/vocal performance. Since college, Elaine has held full-time announcing positions at WKYU in Bowling Green Kentucky; WBJC in Baltimore, Maryland and WGUC in Cincinnati, Ohio. Elaine has sung in the alto section of several professional choruses around the country. She has served on the Boards of Directors for the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio, Doctor's Orchestra of Houston, Houston's Orchestra X and the Italy in America Association.

Alexander Nemerov teaches and writes about American visual culture from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He has focused primarily on painting but lately has turned more and more to the study of film, theater, and sculpture. His writing often analyzes fiction and poetry alongside works of visual art. His seminars include The Visual Culture of the American Home Front, 1941-1945 and American Art in the Democratic Age, 1830-1860. His recent lecture courses have been a survey of American photography from the daguerreotype to 1971; a survey of American painting and sculpture from Copley to Pollock; and a survey of western art from Giotto to David.