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A native of Shanghai, Da Zheng immigrated to the United States in 1986 to pursue graduate study at Boston University, from which he received his Ph.D. in English. He is an associate professor of English at Suffolk University and the author of *Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East*, a cultural biography of the painter, poet, scholar and exile, who was a literary fixture in the West during and after World War II, and of whom, the great art historian Ernst Gombrich praised, saying "[he is an artist] who tends to see what he paints rather than to paint what he sees."

Daan Bleichrodt is on a mission to re-connect urban kids with nature worldwide. He is Chief Tree Planting Officer at IVN environmental education and leads the Tiny Forest movement in the Netherlands. He is also a consultant and teacher for [Earthwatch](https://earthwatch.org.uk/) in the UK, [Goodplanet](https://www-goodplanet-be.translate.goog/fr/?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc) in Belgium, and [Ecosystem Restoration Camps](https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/) .

Dabney Hollis, the publisher of Atlanta Woman magazine, has developed a reputation for building relevant value and increasing public awareness for businesses and their markets. During the early stages of her career at Turner Broadcasting, Inc., she demonstrated her management ability as CNN TV director of advertising and promotion, overseeing all aspects of marketing and strategic partnerships. Later, as senior account executive at WAGA-TV, she was responsible for a $14.8 million annual advertising budget and was credited for tremendously increasing revenues as well as selling the largest sports package at FOX5. She continued her varied experience in endeavors such as senior marketing consultant and interim vice president of marketing for WebMD and the G8 Summit host committee director of projects, acquiring a unique ability to articulate corporate strategy, drive business value and ultimately propel ventures to success. In her role as publisher of Atlanta Woman magazine, Dabney brings a tremendous combination of strategic, analytical and change management skills that allow her to foster innovation and create positive momentum. She continues to advance the magazine as the top resource for professional and civic-minded women in all stages of their corporate or entrepreneurial careers. Dabney is active throughout the community as a board member of the Girl Scout Council of Northwest Georgia, past president of the Alzheimer’s Society of Atlanta, market and benefactor chair of the High Museum Wine Auction, and chair of the 2007 Lovett School auction, among many others. She was awarded the Outstanding Volunteer Award at the Girls Outdoor Adventure for Leadership, was named Volunteer of the Year for the St. Mary’s School, and was featured in Swim With the Dolphins, a book on businesswomen by Connie Glaser. [Source: http://www.atlantawomanmag.com/entrepreneur/Contact\_Us/bios.html]

Dae Sook Suh received his undergraduate education at Texas Christian University (B.A. in Government), and studied Political Science at the graduate level at Indiana University (M.A. in Political Science). He completed his graduate training in Political Science at Columbia University (Ph.D. in Public Law and Government, 1964). Dae returned to Texas to teach political science at the University of Houston and University of Texas at Austin before coming to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He came to the University of Hawaii to establish and develop the programs for the Center for Korean Studies, and he served as its first Director from 1972 to 1995. The Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii appointed him to a chair professorship, Korea Foundation Professor of Policy Studies in 1994. Dae has also taught at Seoul National University and Yonsei University in Korea, and he was appointed George L. Paik Professor at Yonsei University. He was a Visiting Professor at Keio University in Japan and Honorary Professor at Yanbian University in China, and Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Daffodil Altan is a four-time Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, investigative reporter, writer and occasional radio producer. Most recently she was a producer at the J-School’s Investigative Reporting Program, where she directed, wrote and was the correspondent for the FRONTLINE documentary, “Trafficked in America,” which tells the inside story of Guatemalan teens who were forced to work against their will on an Ohio egg farm and was recently selected as a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Follow her on Twitter [@daffodilaltan](https://twitter.com/daffodilaltan "")

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is a well-known independent Korean/American filmmaker and writer. She was born in Sincheon, Hwanghae Province, North Korea in 1938.

A native of Nicaragua, Daisy Zamora is one of the country's most distinguished poets. Her poems, essays and translations have been translated into more than 14 languages and have appeared in more than 50 anthologies. Poet Sonia Sanchez has said, "Daisy Zamora's poems resound with life. Commitment. Struggle. Love. She has been a fighter for liberation and women's rights all of her life." In addition to being an award-winning poet, Zamora is also a painter and political activist. During Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution, she was a combatant for the Sandinista National Liberation Front and was the program director for the clandestine Radio Sandino during the final Sandinista offensive in 1979. After living in exile in Honduras, Panama, and Costa Rica she returned to Nicaragua and served as the Vice-Minister of Culture for the new government. In 2006, Zamora was honored as Woman Writer of the Year by the National Association of Artists in her native Nicaragua. Zamora currently lives in Managua, Nicaragua, and San Francisco.

Dale Allen Hoffman is an "eternal student of the Aramaic teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) and a 15-year teacher of spiritual insights from the ancient Aramaic language and culture. He has been a featured writer and guest for several publications and radio programs and is the Director of the international Aramaic Healing Circle. In its original form Dale's Asheville, North Carolina Aramaic Healing Circles had attendees traveling for hours from several neighboring states week after week to learn and apply the transformative insights from this ancient culture.

Dale Robinson Anglin serves as the Director of Press Forward, a coalition of 88+ local and national funders investing more than $500 million to strengthen communities through local news. Press Forward includes 36 locally led chapters in 27 states. Most recently, Anglin served as Vice President for Grantmaking at the Cleveland Foundation, where she created a journalism portfolio that included Documenters Cleveland and Signal, the nonprofit newsroom of Cleveland and Ohio. NJ. Anglin also launched a new system of integrated physical and mental health in Cleveland schools, and led the region’s COVID-19 Fund.

Dale Maharidge has been teaching at the journalism school since 2001; he first taught here in the early 1990s. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University for 10 years and before that he spent 15 years as a newspaperman, writing for the *Cleveland Plain Dealer*, *The Sacramento Bee*, and others. He's written for *Rolling Stone*, *George Magazine*, *The Nation, Mother Jones*, *The New York Times* op-ed page, among others. Most of his books are illustrated with the work of photographer Michael Williamson. Maharidge's first book, *Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass* (1985), later inspired Bruce Springsteen to write two songs; it was reissued in 1996 with an introduction by Springsteen. His second book, *And Their Children After Them* (1989), won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1990. Other books include *Yosemite: A Landscape of Life* (1990); *The Last Great American Hobo* (1993); and *The Coming White Minority: California, Multiculturalism & the Nation's Future* (1996, 1999); *Homeland* (2004); and *Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town* (2005). Maharidge attended Cleveland State University. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2004, Maharidge held a Yaddo artist's residency.

A political scientist specializing in urban politics, Dale Rogers Marshall was appointed as Wheaton's sixth president in 1992. Since then, she has led an economic and academic expansion of Wheaton, which has resulted in growing recognition of the college's status as a leading liberal arts college. While serving as Wheaton's president, Marshall has remained active as a scholar and a faculty member, regularly teaching courses on urban politics. She is the co-author of *Protest is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics (UC Press, 1984)*. The study won two prestigious American Political Science Association prizes for the best book on American Policy and the best book on ethnic relations. Her latest publication is a co-edited book, *Racial Politics in American Cities (Longman, 1990; 3rd ed., 2002)*. She has also authored and edited numerous books and articles in her field of concentration, urban politics. She also authored "Revolution and Evolution: Strategies for Change" in The Presidency, Fall 1999, (pp 38-40), American Council on Education magazine. She chaired the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts. She was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration in 1987. In 1996 she was elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. She currently chairs the American Council on Education's Leadership Commission, serves on the board of the New England Zenith Fund of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, is a member of the American Student Assistance Guarantor Board, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees from 1983 to 1993 and served as vice president of the American Political Science Association and president of the Western Political Science Association. Marshall received her BA in government from Cornell University in 1959 with high honors in government and distinction in all subjects.

Feldman is a doctoral candidate in the modern Jewish studies program at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where she is researching the literature of Jewish diaspora communities.

Dallas Ducar, a visionary healthcare leader, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Transhealth, a pioneering organization committed to transforming healthcare.