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Hugh Price is former president and CEO of the National Urban League and an expert on education, civil rights, equal opportunity and criminal justice. His 40 year career spans journalism, philanthropy, the law, and social advocacy.

Kenneth Pollack is director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He also served as director for Gulf affairs at the National Security Council, where he was the principal working level official responsible for implementation of US policy toward Iran. Prior to his time in the Clinton administration, he spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst. He is the author of The Threatening Storm and Arabs at War. He lives in Washington, DC.

Vice President, Art & Remembrance Helene McQuade is the younger of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz's two daughters. Encouraged by her mother to draw, paint and play the flute as a child, Helene developed a lasting love for art and music. A graduate of the City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in Art History, her early career was in the arts and publishing. Now residing in the Hudson Valley of New York, Helene is a development officer for the NDH Foundation of Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck, and serves her community as Vice-President of the Pine Plains Central School District Board of Education.

Emily Saliers is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments. Saliers was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Don and Jane Saliers and grew up in Decatur, Georgia (in metro Atlanta) where her father is a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Saliers is the second eldest of four children all girls. She began her college education at Tulane University but transferred to Emory University, graduating in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in English.

Rev. Saliers is the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship at Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, where he also directs the Masters in Sacred Music Program. He taught at Yale Divinity School before moving to Atlanta in 1974. The author of a dozen books and over a hundred articles, he has lectured widely across the ecumenical church. Rev. Saliers, who has contributed to the development of worship for the United Methodist Church for nearly 40 years, is President of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. An active composer, he has served as organist/choirmaster at Chandler's Cannon Chapel for over 25 years.