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Eric Booth, Juilliard School faculty member, nationally recognized consultant for the arts, and author, has been an award-winning actor (six plays on Broadway), producer, and small businessman. He founded the company Alert Publishing, which became the largest company of its kind in America in seven years, and launched him as a trend analyst with three books, a nationally syndicated radio program on the Business Radio Network; regular appearances on CNN and NBC. He has published over 80 articles and was the Founding Editor of the *Teaching Artist Journal*--the first peer-reviewed professional journal for the field. He writes the regular "Edifications" column for *Chamber Music Magazine*, and his last book, *The Everyday Work of Art *(Sourcebooks, 1997), won two awards and was a Book of the Month Club Selection. At Juilliard, Eric Booth founded the Art and Education program and became the Artistic Director of the Mentoring Program at the Juilliard School.

Dr. Eliassen's research focuses on the associations between lifestyle factors, endogenous hormones, and the risk of breast cancer. She is interested in lifestyle factors that may reduce the risk of breast cancer, either via a hormonal pathway or independently. Utilizing data from the Nurses' Health Study cohort, she has examined the relations of statin lipid-lowering drugs, tubal sterilization, and weight change with the risk of breast cancer. Her interests in hormones include the correlations between lifestyle factors and hormone levels and the associations between concentrations of hormones and the risk of breast cancer among both premenopausal and postmenopausal women. She is a co-investigator on sub-cohorts within Nurses Health Study I and II that include blood samples from over 60,000 women, and she has used these data to examine hormonal biomarkers among both premenopausal and postmenopausal women. Her interests in lifestyle factors and biomarkers extend to include dietary factors and she has examined the validation of dietary assessments and the correlations between plasma nutrients and reported intake within the Healthy Directions behavioral intervention studies designed to implement cancer prevention strategies.

Eva Schernhammer's primary research interest is in exploring the exposures that influence the circadian system in humans and health consequences. She has done work on the effects of light at night on cancer risk through the melatonin pathway and demonstrated that the effects of light at night may affect not only breast cancer, but also other cancers such as colorectal cancer, generating evidence that supports a new hypothesis on the development of cancer. She has also conducted urinary melatonin measurements in the Nurses' Health Study to assess the hormone's variations according to shift work status and its association with breast cancer risk in the Nurses' Health Study. Another research focus is to examine the role of other endogenous hormones such as IGF-I and IGFBP-3, and differences with respect to functionally different polymorphisms of these genes, and risk of breast cancer. This focus reflects a broad interest in identifying and applying the use of biomarkers. More recently Schernhammer has become interested in studying new areas including Parkinson's disease and its relation with cancer etiology, to further understand biological mechanisms in the development of cancer in humans.

Mitchell Joachim is acknowledged as an innovator in ecological design and urban design. He is also a researcher and architectural educator. Mitchell Joachim's specific professional interest has been adapting principles of physical and social ecology to architecture, urban design, transport, and environmental planning. He is a Co-Founder at Terrefuge and Terreform ONE. Currently he is faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and *Time Magazine* Best Invention of the Year 2007, for the MIT Car with MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was selected by *Wired magazine* for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To". *Rolling Stone* *magazine* also honored Mitchell as an agent of change in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America".

Roger Saillant is president and CEO of Plug Power, an innovative fuel cell manufacturer that is developing new ways to harness, distribute and use energy.

Born in 1935 in Tampa, Florida, Les Blank attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received a B.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in theatre. In 1967, after two years in the Ph.D. film program at the University of Southern California, and five years of freelancing in Los Angeles, he began his first independent films, on Texas blues singer Lightnin' Hopkins and the newly forming sub-culture known as flower children. To finance these and other of his own films, he continued to make industrial and promotional films for such organizations as Holly Farms Poultry, Archway Cookies and the National Wildlife Federation until 1972.

David is a producer, editor, director, cinematographer, and media technology consulant. He has worked in key creative roles on a wide range of independent film and new media projects including *Never Met Picasso*, *The East Village*, and *Remembering John Marshall*, a short documentary about the late ethnographic filmmaker. David recently served as Project Manager launching MIT TechTV, a video sharing site for the MIT Community. He earned an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Laboratory, studied filmmaking at City College of San Francisco, and holds a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Computer & Cognitive Sciences from the University of Florida. David has taught film production classes and often speaks at film festivals and industry events about new techniques, trends, and tools of interest to filmmakers.