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Part storyteller, part analyst, Dan Carlin looks at subjects from multiple angles, dissects and thinks about them in original ways. He isn’t afraid to go deep or to inject historical context into modern debates. He’ll make you mad too. Carlin has been a professional radio host, and he eventually took his show to the Internet. He hosts three popular, independent podcasts: \_Common Sense, Hardcore History\_, and \_Hardcore History: Addendum.\_

Dan Chiasson's latest book is *Where's the Moon, There's the Moon: Poems*. He teaches at Wellesley College.

Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner. He is Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Design School, where he received a Master in Urban Planning degree.

Dan Duro has worked in the technical, production, and organizational management of the arts for more than three decades. Prior positions at over 13 performing arts companies include Production Director at The Santa Fe Opera; Director of Productions for Portland Opera (OR); Opera Pacific (CA); the Williamstown Theatre Festival (MA); The Acting Company (NY); and The Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, D.C.); V.P. for Operations at the new Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and Academy of Music in Philadelphia; and Production Manager at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (NY).

Dan has worked at the *Fayetteville (N.C.) Times, Durham Morning Herald, Charlotte News, Miami Herald,* and *The Sun and Evening Sun of Baltimore*. He has also written many books.

Dan French is the executive director of the Center for Collaborative Education, a non profit organization dedicated to working with networks of schools engaged in reform. The Center is the National Turning Points Center, which works with regional centers and middle schools across the nation to adopt the Turning Points design, a comprehensive and rigorous middle school reform model that is based on ten years of research and practice in implementing the Turning Points principles. Formerly, Dan was the director of Instruction and Curriculum for the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Dan Gagnon is a Boston National Historical Park Ranger.

Dan Gilgoff is a reporter and co-editor of CNN's *Belief*.

Dan Gillmor is founder and director of the Center for Citizen Media, a nonprofit organization aimed at enhancing and expanding grassroots media and its reach. The center is an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Law School and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Dan is the author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, published in 2004. From 1994-2004, Dan was a columnist at The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a blog for SiliconValley.com. He joined The Mercury News after six years with The Detroit Free Press.

Founder and CEO, Context Labs

Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a media columnist for GBH.

Daniel Koretz focuses his research primarily on educational assessment, particularly as a tool of education policy. A primary emphasis in his work has been the effects of high-stakes testing, including effects on schooling and the validity of score gains. His research has included studies of the effects of testing programs, the assessment of students with disabilities, international differences in the variability of student achievement, the application of value-added models to educational achievement, and the development of methods for validating scores under high-stakes conditions. His current work focuses on the design and evaluation of test-focused educational accountability systems. Dr. Koretz founded and chairs the International Project for the Study of Educational Accountability, an international network of scholars investigating improved approaches to educational accountability. Dr. Koretz is a member of the National Academy of Education. His doctorate is in developmental psychology from Cornell University. Before obtaining his degree, Dr. Koretz taught emotionally disturbed students in public elementary and junior high schools.

Dan is an audio wizard for all seasons: post, studio, and live satellite operations.