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Douglas Foy is the President of DIF Enterprises, a company focused on investment and strategic counsel for social ventures, primarily in the areas of energy, housing, smart growth, climate change, and sustainable development. Prior to founding DIF Enterprises, Foy served as the first secretary of the Massachusetts Office for Commonwealth Development, from January 2003 to March 2006, where he oversaw the Executive Office of Transportation, the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Energy Resources. Foy was also one of the chief architects of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a groundbreaking agreement negotiated among Northeastern states to create a carbon trading market for all power plants in the region. Prior to his service in the Romney administration, Foy served for 25 years as president of the Conservation Law Foundation, New Englands premier environmental advocacy organization. Foy is well known in New England for initiating the lawsuit that led to the cleanup of Boston Harbor.

In 2006 Patricia established Princeton Printing, LLC which took over the ownership of a printing business that had operated for twenty years at the company's Somerville, MA location. As Owner and CEO, Patricia leads the company's efforts to meet the highest standards of print production and customer service. Before joining the print industry, Patricia practiced law in Massachusetts, serving the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in various capacities including, Deputy Chief Counsel of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, Chief Counsel to the Massachusetts House Committee on Ways and Means and Assistant District Attorney for Plymouth County. Patricia also practiced law in the private sector, specializing in criminal defense and bankruptcy. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Suffolk University Law School and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Boston University.

Harry Spence is Lecturer on Education. He served from December 2001 until June 2007 as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, where he was responsible for the Commonwealth's child welfare program, supervising 3,400 employees, with an annual budget of $750 million. He developed the "next generation" child welfare practice model, which involved the teaming of social workers, a national innovation that won the Kennedy School Innovations in Government Award in 2006. He served from 1995 to 2000 as the Deputy Chancellor for Operations for the New York City Board of Education, and from 1991 to 1995 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance as the Receiver for the City of Chelsea, where his responsibilities included the rebuilding of the city school system and enactment of municipal charter reform. He has provided consulting services to major national organizations with a focus on education and held a Lecturer appointment at the Kennedy School of Government from 1988 to 1991. Mr. Spence holds a JD from Harvard Law School (1974).

Timothy W. Brennan is the executive director of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC). Brennan joined the PVPC in 1973 and since 1980 has served as the agency's executive director. He currently serves as the chair of the nationwide Institute for the Regional Community and is active in many other organizations, including the National Association of Regional Councils, the Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies, the New England Association of Regional Councils and the Hartford-Springfield Economic Partnership. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts.

Lance Neumann has more than 30 years of experience in transportation policy, planning, programming, and finance. He has worked for a broad range of Federal, state, regional, and local agencies, as well as private and international clients. Dr. Neumann started the firm's management systems practice in the late 1970s, and has worked with many agencies developing practical approaches to measure and improve performance, evaluate projects and programs, improve resource allocation decisions, and increase accountability. Most notably, Dr. Neumann has been involved in major program evaluation projects for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), as well as at the state and local levels. He is the chairman of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Performance Measurement Committee. Dr. Neumann has also published numerous articles and lectured on topics related to resource allocation decision-making, and management.

Gray was provincial for the Detroit Province, and executive director of the Detroit Province Spirituality Team. He was an associate professor of Spiritual Theology at Weston School of Theology, served as dean and an adjunct professor in Spiritual Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif. During his time at Weston, he lectured occasionally at Boston College. He also has taught at Fordham and John Carroll universities, Loyola University of New Orleans and the University of Detroit Mercy. Fr. Gray's publications include *An Experience In Ignatian Government*, *Studies In the Spirituality of the Jesuits* and numerous articles. He earned a bachelor's degree in English and classics, a licentiate in philosophy and a licentiate in sacred theology from Loyola University of Chicago, and a doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin.

David P. Driscoll is the former commissioner of education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has worked in public education and educational leadership for forty three years. A former secondary school mathematics teacher, Driscoll was named assistant superintendent of Melrose, MA, schools in 1972 and then superintendent in 1984. He served in that role until 1993, when he was appointed Massachusetts deputy commissioner of education, just days after the states Education Reform Act was signed into law. Driscoll became interim commissioner of education on July 1, 1998, and was named commissioner on March 10, 1999. As deputy commissioner, Driscoll held several key leadership roles, both in the external affairs of the education department and in internal management. He was the principal investigator for the National Science Foundations mathematics and science program in Massachusetts, PALMS, and was instrumental in gaining the NSF's approval of a second five-year round of funding for this initiative in 1997. He was also appointed to oversee the implementation of the state agreement on management and governance of the Lawrence Public Schools. Driscoll is currently the outgoing president of the Council of Chief State School Officers and serves on the board of the National Assessment Governing Board.

Louis Crompton is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska. Co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the Modern Language Association, he is author of the highly acclaimed *Byron and Greek Love, and Homosexuality and Civilization *, among numerous other works.