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Cheryl Giles, is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling, at Harvard Divinity School. She also works as a consultant to the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Social Services, as well as non-profit organizations, schools, and colleges. Professor Giles is also the recipient of the Outstanding African-American Making History Today Award, Boston Renaissance School (2004).

Joan is an actor/storyteller who is selected for the Massachusetts Cultural Council's Events and residency Roster of Artists, and the Mass Touring Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts. She is the creator and performer of "Petticoat Adventures", dramatic solo performances interpreting the lives of extraordinary American women including Deborah Samson, First Lady Louisa Catherine Adams, seafaring Johanna Burgess, and Rachel Revere.

As a newly minted Ph.D. in 1958, Alfred Young bucked historical conventions, which gave a central place to high politics, political biography, and elite intellectual history. In *The Democratic Republicans of New York* (1967), Young studied the political movements and aspirations of the "meaner sort" of the Revolutionary era, placing them within a broader class analysis of politics. In its focus on the popular classes, on social conflict, and on the Revolution as the occasion for unleashing popular politics, Young anticipated many of the themes and interpretations that distinguish studies of the Revolution over the next two decades. Young then embarked on an ambitious study of Boston artisans during the Revolutionary era. In other articles and lectures, Young explored the transmission of English popular rituals and traditions to the colonies and their mobilization during the Revolution, the transformations of artisans consciousness and politics, and the impact of popular politics on the drafting of the Constitution.

commonly known by his initials I.M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize winning Chinese born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture.

A writer and architect, he is currently the Pulitzer-Prize winning architecture critic for the Boston Globe. Campbell has received many awards for his writing including a Design Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts 1976 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. He is a fellow of the AIA and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Edward Skloot recently retired as executive director of the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation headquartered in New York City that makes grants in five fields: the environment, neighborhood revitalization, youth organizing, arts, and nonprofit sector issues. The foundation's first professional employee, Mr. Skloot built a staff of 20 and helped Surdna, which has assets of nearly $700 million, earn a national reputation for entrepreneurial grantmaking, collaborative approaches with other funders and grantees, and aggressive solution-finding for complex problems. Mr. Skloot previously founded and ran New Ventures, a consulting firm that created the field of social venturing and nonprofit entrepreneurship; he also wrote the first article ever published on the subject, in *the Harvard Business Review* in 1983. He currently serves on the board of Consumers Union (publisher of *Consumer Reports*) and Venture Philanthropy Partners, a group of venture capitalists helping youth-serving organizations in the Washington, D.C. region. He is a member of the advisory board of the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting firm. Mr. Skloot has written and spoken widely on the subjects of nonprofit management, social venturing and sectoral leadership and is also a member of the Editorial Board of the *Stanford Social Innovation Review*. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and from the Columbia University School of International Affairs.

Mason has been the Executive Director of WCNE since 1980; he is also the head naturalist at Capt. Bill and Son's Whale Watch, the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the American Cetacean Society, the Chair of Massachusetts Coastal Advocacy Network, a member of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, and a technical advisor to New England's Large Whale Recovery Team. He has published many articles, both popular and scientific, about the whales of New England. He is the primary captain of our research vessel, Mysticete. He holds a B.S. in Zoology from Cornell University.

Captain Kerr, born in Scotland, began his career with dolphins in 1983 as a volunteer research assistant at the Dolphin Research Center in Florida, and in 1984 he earned his Captains License. In 1987, Iain served as a research assistant to Dr. Roger Payne at the New York Zoological Society's whale camp in Peninsula Valdes, Argentina, assisting with the development of new benign methods for the study of the endangered southern Right whale. In 1988/89, under the auspices of the Ocean Alliance and the Interpolar Research Society, he captained the 85ft. research vessel Siben. In 1993, Iain lead the Odyssey Expedition to the Galapagos Islands. He was responsible for creating the research team, the visiting scientist program and for the development of new technologies for studying whales. Iain, now Vice President and CEO of Ocean Alliance, is directing much of his energies on a five year program designed to gather the first ever baseline data on synthetic contaminants throughout the world's oceans. This program, the Voyage of the Odyssey will use whales and Albatrosses as indicator species for measuring the health of the seas. Iain will work with Dr. Payne and leading scientists from around the world, using the R.V. Odyssey as the main platform for data collection. Iain received an honors degree in education from the University of London and his green card in 1997. He is an accomplished speaker and photographer. Iain has led expeditions to all parts of the globe, including Australia, the Amazon Basin, Argentina, Alaska, the Caribbean, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Hawaii and Mexico.

Vivien Stewart is vice president for education at Asia Society. She is responsible for Asia Society's programs to promote the study of Asia and other world regions, cultures, languages, and global issues in America's schools, and for building connections between U.S. and Asian education leaders. In the United States, Stewart's initiatives include working with a network of state and national education leaders and creating a national initiative to expand the teaching of Chinese. Stewart has developed a series of international exchanges to share expertise between American and Asian education leaders on improving education to meet the demands of globalization. This includes bringing delegations of educators to each others' schools; producing publications such as *Math and Science Education in a Global Age*; and hosting expert meetings such as the Asia-Pacific Education Forum held in Beijing in 2006. Stewart has had a long involvement with education and youth affairs. Over the course of a distinguished career at Carnegie Corporation of New York, she was a leader in shaping reform agendas in early childhood education, urban school reform, science education, teaching as a profession, and healthy adolescent development. In addition to grantmaking, she was responsible for the management of a number of Carnegie task forces, which produced influential reports such as "Turning Points", "A Matter of Time", and "Starting Points". She was also instrumental in the creation of the National Center for Children in Poverty and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Stewart serves as a board member of the National Center on Education and the Economy and the Longview Foundation for Education in International Understanding and World Affairs. She is senior education advisor to the Refugee Education Trust in Geneva and on the advisory board of the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. She has also been senior policy advisor to the UN special representative of the secretary-general for children and armed conflict and a visiting scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. She received her B.A. and M. Phil. degrees from Oxford University.

He is one of the nation's most famous authors. David Halberstam was born on April 10, 1934, in New York. David Halberstam was well-known for his writing and reporting on the civil rights movement. During the late 50's and early 60's at the *Nashville Tennessean*, he covered stories and activities related to the civil rights movement. Halberstam was assigned to cover the first sit-ins in February, 1960, and he used his experiences to trace the civil rights movement from 1960 to 1965. His book, *The Children*, is based on these experiences. He looks at the events through the perspective of the student activists who participated in these sit-ins.