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An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Wade Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6,000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing *Passage of Darkness (1988)* and *The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986),* an international best seller that appeared in ten languages and was later released by Universal as a motion picture. His other books include *Penan: Voice for the Borneo Rain Forest (1990), Shadows in the Sun (1993), Nomads of the Dawn (1995), The Clouded Leopard (1998), Rainforest (1998), Light at the Edge of the World (2001), The Lost Amazon (2004), Grand Canyon (2008), Book of Peoples of the World (ed. 2008), and One River (1996),* which was nominated for the 1997 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. *Fire on the Mountain*, a history of the early British efforts on Everest, will be published in 2009. *Sheets of Distant Rain *will follow. A native of British Columbia, Davis, a licensed river guide, has worked as a park ranger and forestry engineer and conducted ethnographic fieldwork among several indigenous societies of northern Canada. He has published 150 scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from Haitian vodoun and Amazonian myth and religion to the global biodiversity crisis, the traditional use of psychotropic drugs, and the ethnobotany of South American Indians.

Professor Adler specializes in television news. She teaches TV News Production. TV News writing, JRN 3, and Interpreting the Day's News. She comes to the School of Journalism after many years of experience in local news where she was an investigative producer and tape editor. Most recently, she worked at CNN as a producer in the cable network's medical unit where she produced medical stories and was the show producer for a weekly medical show, "Your Health." In addition she worked as the U.N. producer for CNN during the Gulf War and worked in the San Francisco and New York bureaus as an assignment editor, producer and tape editor. Currently, she produces hour-long documentaries for cable networks such as A&E, Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet.

A NASA trained engineer and Ironman triathlete, Kim Blair is the President/Founder of Sports Innovation Group LLC consultancy and the Founding Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sports Innovation program. Dr. Blair is a recognized expert in sports technology and innovation and has extensive experience utilizing advanced technologies to improve human athletic performance, and developing hands-on educational programs in innovation, product development and sports engineering and technology.

Professor McNally received his B.S. in psychology from Wayne State University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982. He spent the next two years as a clinical psychology intern and postdoctoral fellow at the Behavior Therapy Unit in the Department of Psychiatry at Temple University Medical School before moving to the Chicago Medical School where he established a research and treatment clinic for anxiety disorders. He joined the Harvard faculty as Associate Professor in 1991, and was promoted to Professor in 1995. He served on the specific phobia and posttraumatic stress disorder committees of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV Task Force and on the National Institute of Mental Health's consensus panels for the assessment of panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD is director of the MIT AgeLab. He leads the US Department of Transportation's New England University Transportation Center, a research consortium of MIT, Harvard University and each of the 6 New England state universities. He is one of *Fast Company Magazine*'s 100 Most Creative People in Business and was named by the *Wall Street Journal* as one of 12 pioneers inventing the future of aging and how we will all live, work and play tomorrow, his research seeks to understand how demographic and social trends, human behavior and technology converge to drive future innovations in business and government. Based in MIT's Engineering Systems Division, Dr. Coughlin teaches classes in policy and systems innovation offered in both MIT's School of Engineering and Harvard Medical School. He consults to governments, financial services, consumer products, foods, automobile, retailers, IT and health firms worldwide.

Nicholas Katzenbach was born in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 17th January, 1922. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy he joined the United States Army Air Force (USAAF). During the Second World War he was captured by enemy troops and spent two years as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war Katzenbach attended Princeton University and Yale Law School. While at Yale he was editor-in-chief of *the Yale Law Journal*. He also received a Rhodes scholarship and studied at Oxford University for two years. In 1950 Katzenbach became a lawyer in New Jersey. In 1952 he became Associate Professor of Law at Yale University and also served as a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago (1956-1960). Katzenbach joined the justice department's Office of Legal Counsel and in April 1962, was promoted to deputy attorney general, the second highest position in the department. Katzenbach worked closely with President John F. Kennedy and was given the task of securing the release of prisoners captured during the Bay of Pigs raid on Cuba. On the advice of Robert Kennedy President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Katzenbach as Attorney General of the United States. In this post he helped draft the Voting Rights Act. Katzenbach clashed with J. Edgar Hoover over his policy of ordering unauthorized wiretaps of people such as Martin Luther King. After Johnson resigned Katzenbach returned to private law practice in Princeton, New Jersey.

Juan Williams, one of America's leading journalists, is a news analyst, appearing regularly on *Morning Edition* and *Day to Day*. Knowledgeable and charismatic, Williams brings insight and depth hallmarks of NPR programs to a wide spectrum of issues and ideas. A graduate of Haverford College, Williams received a B.A. in philosophy in 1976. Currently, he sits on a number of boards, including the Haverford College Board of Trustees, the Aspen Institute of Communications and Society Program, Washington Journalism Center and the New York Civil Rights Coalition. Williams is the author of the critically acclaimed biography *Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary*, which was released in paperback in 2000. He is also the author of the nonfiction bestseller *Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years*, 1954-1965, the companion volume to the critically acclaimed television series. *This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience* appeared in 2003. This book was the basis for a six-part public broadcasting TV documentary that aired in June 2003. In his 2006 book, *Enough*, Williams makes the case that while there is still racism, it is way past time for black Americans to open their eyes to the "culture of failure" that exists within their community. During his 21-year career at *The Washington Post*, Williams served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, and White House reporter. He has won an Emmy award for TV documentary writing and won widespread critical acclaim for a series of documentaries including *Politics - The New Black Power*. Articles by Williams have appeared in magazines ranging from *Newsweek*, *Fortune*, and *The Atlantic Monthly* to *Ebony*, *Gentlemen's Quarterly*, and *The New Republic*.

Brian King is a professor of electrical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.