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Cokie Roberts (1943-2019) was a senior news analyst for *NPR News*, where she served as the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program *This Week*. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting. In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, wrote a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. The Roberts were also contributing editors to *USA Weekend Magazine*, and together they wrote* From this Day Forward*, an account of their more than 40 year marriage and other marriages in American history. The book immediately went onto *The New York Times* bestseller list, following Cokie Roberts's number one bestseller, *We Are Our Mothers' Daughters*, an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history. Roberts histories of women in America's founding era Founding Mothers, published in 2004 and Ladies of Liberty in 2008, also became instant bestsellers. Cokie Roberts earned more than twenty honorary degrees, served on the boards of several non-profit institutions and on the President's Commission on Service and Civic Participation. The Library of Congress named her a "Living Legend"in 2008. She is one of the very few Americans to have attained that honor.

A native of Tennessee, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in opening Western eyes to the teachings of 13th century Persian poet, theologian, and philosopher Jalal Al-Din Rumi. Although Barks relied on the translations of others, his interpretations of those translations have greatly expanded the reach and popularity of Rumi's teachings and verse. Barks's books on Rumi have sold more than half a million copies worldwide, and earned Barks an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Tehran in the field of Persian Language and Literature. In addition to his interest in Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia, Barks also writes his own poetry from his home in Athens, Georgia. Books of his original work include *Gourd Seed*, *Tentmaking*, and *Granddaughter Poems*.

Colette Lauture is a summer 2023 radio and news intern with GBH.

Colin Adams is a mathematician known for making mathematical concepts accessible to the general public. He is currently researching hyperbolic 3-manifolds and knot theory and is the author of *The Knot Book*, an accessible approach to knot theory. Beyond that, Adams contributes to a humor column for the *Mathematical Intelligencer*. Adams is a professor of mathematics at Williams College and has won the Haimo Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America for his lighthearted, often comical presentations. Adams is a professed atheist who has taught a course on the subject.

Professor of History and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies. Professor Calloway first taught at the College of Ripon and York, St John in England. After moving to the United States, he taught high school in Springfield, Vermont, served for two years as associate director and editor of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. He has been associated with the Native American Studies program since 1990 when he first came to Dartmouth as a visiting professor. He became a permanent member of the faculty in 1995. Professor Calloway serves as the President of the American Society for Ethnohistory, 2007-08.

Colin Norman is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Johns Hopkins University, and an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He works on both theoretical and observational astrophysics in areas including the formation, structure, and evolution of galaxies, the physics of active galaxies, quasars, and starburst galaxies, the structures of the intergalactic and interstellar media, and star formation.

Colin Powell became the first African-American Secretary of State in US history when he took office in 2001. He was a career soldier who fought in the US Army during the Vietnam War, and rose through the ranks to become a general, eventually becoming national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan. Powell became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H. W. Bush, directing US forces during the first Gulf War. Powell retired in 1993 and published his autobiography, My American Journey, in 1995. After years on the lecture circuit, he was chosen by George W. Bush to be Secretary of State in 2001.

Colin Walsh started his career in 2004 in the locations department on the feature film Fever Pitch. He continued to work in locations on numerous New England productions like Brotherhood, Underdog, The Fighter, and Moonrise Kingdom. Colin then joined the Director's Guild of America and was the Unit Production Manager on the television series Better Call Saul and The Red Road. More recently Colin has been producing the series Rectify and the series Hap and Leonard.