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This Forum's guest moderator is Curt Jaimungal, a Toronto-based scientist who hosts Theories of Everything, one of the most popular science podcasts which explores physics, consciousness, and AI. The show attracts 500,000 subscribers and its guests have included Noam Chomsky and Roger Penrose.

Curt Smith is an acclaimed author, radio/television host, columnist, and former presidential speechwriter. Smith hosts the weekly syndicated *Perspectives* from Rochester, New York's National Public Radio affiliate WXXI AM. The series, distributed to other NPR stations in New York State, features well-known local and national guests. Smith also hosts the twice-weekly *Talking Point* on Rochester CBS-TV affiliate WROC, discussing issues from politics to education. He is a popular columnist for Upstate New York's *Messenger-Post Newspapers* and Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Rochester, where he teaches Public Speaking and Presidential Rhetoric. Smith is the author of ten books: *What Baseball Means to Me*, *Voices of The Game*, *Storied Stadiums*, *Windows on the White House*, *Our House*, *Of Mikes and Men*, *Long Time Gone*, *A Fine Sense of the Ridiculous*, *America's Dizzy Dea*n, and *The Storytellers*. He has written and coproduced prime-time ESPN-TV documentaries based on *Voices of The Game* - and helped write and research the ABC/ESPN *SportsCentury* documentary series. Raised in Caledonia, New York, the 1973 SUNY at Geneseo graduate has been named among the "100 Outstanding Alumni" of New York's State University System, is a member of the Judson Welliver Society of former White House.

Curtis Roosevelt, is the second eldest child of Anna Roosevelt and her first husband, Curtis Bean Dall. He is the eldest grandson of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. After his parents' divorce, his mother remarried journalist John Boettiger. Roosevelt graduated from St. John's Northwestern Military Academy at Delafield, Wisconsin in 1948. He served two years in the United States Army and obtained his masters degree from the School of Government and Public Law at Columbia University. Between 1956 and 1964, he worked for a number of schools and committees including: The National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, The New School for Social Research, Columbia University, and The United States Committee for the United Nations. Beginning in 1964, Roosevelt held various positions in the international civil service sector Secretariat of the United Nations in New York City until 1983. Roosevelt served as principal at the Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England, where he received an honorary bachelors degree in theatre, music, and fine art. Roosevelt retired in 1987. Roosevelt also became an occasional writer on American politics for El Mundo and Le Figaro newspapers in Spain and France. He has since moved to the south of France where he regularly appears on French television.

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the bestselling novels American Wife, Prep, and The Man of My Dreams, which are being translated into twenty-five languages. Prep also was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, nominated for the UK's Orange Prize, and optioned by Paramount Pictures. Curtis won the Seventeen magazine fiction writing contest in 1992, at age sixteen, and since then her writing has appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Salon, Glamour, and on public radio's This American Life. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she was the 2002 - 2003 writer in residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.

Curtis Wong is manager of the Microsoft Next Media Research Group, whose focus spans the linear and interactive media spectrum from television, broadband, and gaming to emerging media forms. The author of more than 20 patents pending in such areas as interactive television, media browsing, visualization, design, and mobile computing, Wong was previously Director of Intel Productions. At Intel, he was responsible for creating next generation content such as the Virtual Van Gogh Museum Tour; ArtMuseum.net, one of the first Web-based, broadband art exhibition networks; and the Whitney's American Century Exhibition. Wong was also the General Manager and Executive Producer of Corbis Productions, the digital image company started by Bill Gates, where he created a series of award winning CD-ROMs on subjects such as *A Passion for Art*, *FDR*, *Critical Mass*, and *Leonardo Da Vinci*. Prior to Corbis he was an interactive-documentary producer for the Criterion Collection, producing some of the first feature films on laserdiscs and multimedia CD-ROMs for the Voyager Company. Wongs work in interactive media has won many design and industry awards, including New York Film Festival Gold Medals, the ID Magazine Annual Design Award of Excellence, and Communication Arts Interactive award of Excellence. His collaboration with WGBH Interactive on the broadband-enhanced documentary *Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy*, won a 2002 Academy Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and was nominated for the first Interactive TV Emmy. He is currently working with WGBH *Frontline* on an enhanced broadband documentary for television/web scheduled to air in Summer 2006.

While a Ph.D. student at Harvard, Dr. Cynthia Bamdad invented the first electronic DNA chip and the first universal protein chip. Intellectual property surrounding these inventions and extensions thereof, also developed by Bamdad, formed the cornerstone of a California startup company, which was sold within two years to Motorola for $300MM. She is the sole or co-inventor inventor of over 100 patent applications in the US and foreign for novel technologies, therapeutics and diagnostics. She has also given numerous invited talks to U.S. and foreign institutions on the topics of cancer research, neurodegenerative diseases, proteomics and biological warfare threat and detection.

Cynthia A. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in the College of Health and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, *magna cum laude*, from the University of Southern Mississippi and her law degree from Mississippi College School of Law. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable David Bramlette, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Dr. Brown also holds a Master of Science degree in Economic Development and a Doctorate of Philosophy in the Administration of Justice, both earned from the University of Southern Mississippi. She practiced law with offices in Mississippi and Florida before leaving practice to join the Academy in 2006. Dr. Brown teaches Contracts, Courts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Employment Discrimination Law, Law and the Legal Environment, and Law and Society. She has received national and regional awards for both her teaching and her research. Since 2001, Dr. Brown has served on the Board of Directors for the National Institute of Ethics, where she also contributes as an instructor and trainer. She frequently works with local, state and federal agencies in the areas of ethics, leadership and diversity. Dr. Brown is regarded as an expert in police ethics and has traveled extensively working with both state and federal law enforcement agencies across the United States.

Cynthia Buiza has worked on international refugee, migration and human rights issues for the past 14 years. Prior to joining Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) as Policy and Advocacy Director in 2007, she served for three years as the Program Coordinator for the Children's Rehabilitation Center-Philippines, working with families affected by political armed conflict. Previously she was the Information and Research Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Regional Office in the Philippines and its implementing partner, Refugee Services Philippines; Deputy Director of the Open Society Institute-Burma Education Project in Thailand; and Regional Policy and Advocacy Officer for the Jesuit Refugee Service Asia Pacific Office. She also consulted with organizations such as Child Workers in Asia, Save the Children-UK, Save the Children-Sweden and Help Age International. Ms. Buiza holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, specializing in human security issues vis-a-vis traditional national security frameworks. She has a B.A. in Social Work from the Philippines, and a Certificate in Refugee Studies from Oxford University, London. She is a published author of poems and essays, and is the co-author of Anywhere But War, a book on armed conflict and internal displacement in the Indonesian Province of Aceh.

Cynthia Close is the executive director of Documentary Educational Resources.

Born in 1938, Cynthia Enloe spent her early life on Long Island in a New York suburb. After completing her undergraduate education at Connecticut College in 1960, she went on to earn an M.A. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1967 in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Enloe currently serves as a professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University, Worcester. She is also the Director of Clark University's Women Studies program and a frequent lecturer. In addition to serving as an editor for such scholarly journals as *Signs* and the *International Feminist Journal of Politics*, Cynthia Enloe has written nine books, mostly published by the University of California Press. Much of Enloes research centers on womens place in national and international politics. Her books cover a wide range of issues encompassing gender-based discrimination as well as racial, ethnic and national identities.

Cynthia Evans is Research Director of American Ancestors’ 10 Million Names project, a collaborative project dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial American. She is a researcher, historian, and genealogist with more than ten years of experience in African American history and research and five years of experience managing a genealogy center in Austin, TX..

Cynthia Grant Bowman, J.D., Ph.D., is the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law at Cornell University. She was Professor of Law and Gender Studies at Northwestern University before joining the faculty at Cornell. She has published widely on issues involving the law and women, including women in the legal profession, sexual harassment, and legal remedies for adult survivors of childhood sex abuse. She also published one of the earliest texts on feminist legal theory, Feminist Jurisprudence, which is now in its fourth edition with co-authors. Few speakers have as much standing from which to criticize the policy and its implementation.

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Cynthia Lopez is the vice president for American Documentary's POV. Cynthia Lopez has been with POV since 2000, serving first as Communications Director before being appointed to Vice President for American Documentary. Lopez is responsible for development of programming content, broadcast distribution, communications and marketing, and strategic development of the organization. Under her leadership as Communications Director, national media coverage of POV programs more than tripled and she has forged strategic partnerships with Harpo Studios, Netflix, ABC News' *Nightline*, WNYC New York Public Radio, Pentgram, Inc., Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and *Ms. Magazine*, among many others. The promotional campaign Lopez spearheaded for the POV film, *Farmingville*, won the prestigious EPPSilon Award. Before joining POV, Lopez spent four years at Libraries for the Future as Advocacy Director, developing innovative strategies to serve some of the nations poorest libraries. Her previous experience in public media includes stints as Acting Executive Director of Deep Dish TV Network and Executive Producer of Satellite University Network. Her production credits include serving as Executive Producer on Beyond the Browning of America (PBS) hosted by Maria Hinojosa, and as Senior Producer for The Qunicentenary, a Television Espanola, Canal+ and BBC co-production. Lopez is a founding board member of NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) and is an advisor to REEL New York (Thirteen/WNET New York). She has been an advisor for the Heinz Awards, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, Rockefeller Fellowships, Independent Television Service (ITVS), Americans for the Arts, the Banff Centre in Canada and AIVF. She has been a presenter at a variety of venues including: White House Conference on Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, United Nations Women's Conference, Channels for Change (Scotland) Center for Democratic Communications (South Africa) and the international media alliance, Videazimut, among others.