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Dan Lothian, the Editor-in-Chief of GBH News and the Executive Producer of The World national radio broadcast, as well as the former host of the GBH program State of Race, who has decades of experience in local and national radio and television, including more than a decade as a correspondent at CNN covering the White House, presidential campaigns, and breaking news, as well as seven years as a National Correspondent at NBC News with stories on Nightly News, the Today Show, and MSNBC.

Dan Lothian is the Editor-in-Chief and General Manager of Local News. He also lectures on Journalism and visual storytelling at Northeastern University in Boston. Prior to joining GBH, Lothian was a White House Correspondent at CNN where he also covered political campaigns and breaking news during his more than decade long run at the network. Lothian was a key member of CNN’s Peabody Award-winning “best political team on television.” He covered the 2004, 2008 and 2012 presidential races traveling with more than a half dozen candidates. His award-winning career has taken him to more than 50 countries including Israel, Myanmar and Colombia. Lothian started in radio as a teenager, worked in local TV stations across the country, then launched onto the national stage as a correspondent with NBC News, the Today Show and MSNBC. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Tennessee Temple University and a master’s degree from American University in Washington D.C. Follow Dan on Twitter @DanLothianTV.

Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. He is currently a co-producer and writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. Previously, Lyons was technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of the groundbreaking viral blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" (AKA "Fake Steve Jobs"). Lyons has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired. He lives in Winchester, MA.

Dan Mach is the director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief.

Dan McKanan joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in July 2008 as Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity. Before coming to Harvard, he served as department chair and associate professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, where he began teaching in 1998. He studies religious movements for social transformation in the United States from the abolitionist era to the present. His first book, *Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States* (2002), explores theological understandings of violence and nonviolence among abolitionists, pacifists, and temperance activists. *Touching the World: Christian Communities Transforming Society* (2007) and *The Catholic Worker After Dorothy: Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation* (2008) deal with the Camphill and Catholic Worker networks of intentional communities. McKanan's current book project, tentatively entitled "Prophetic Encounters," is a general history of the religious left in the United States. Image courtesy of Harvard Divinity School photographs.

Dan Moulthrop is the founding host of The Sound of Ideas, which airs weekday mornings at nine. He joined ideastream in 2005 as WCPNs local anchor of Morning Edition. Prior to joining ideastream, Dan lived in the San Francisco Bay area where worked on print, television and video projects, including co-authoring Teachers Have it Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of Americas Teachers (with Ninive Calegari and Dave Eggers; The New Press, 2005). He holds a masters in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. Before turning to journalism, he taught English at San Lorenzo High School in California and a variety of subjects at the San Francisco County Jail. Dans journalistic work has been recognized by Public Radio News Directors, Inc., The Society of Professional Journalists, and the Press Club of Cleveland, among other organizations. Dan lives in Shaker Heights with his wife Dorothy and their three children.

Dan Murphy is a photojournalism intern at GBH News in Boston. He is a student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Nocera received a B.S. degree in Chemistry (magna cum laude) from Rutgers University in 1979. He received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, after working with Professor Harry B. Gray studying the spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and photochemistry of polynuclear metal-metal bonded complexes. He joined the faculty of Michigan State University in 1984 as assistant professor, and became a professor at MSU in 1990. He moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor of chemistry in 1997. He is presently the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry at MIT. Nocera and his researchers received media attention beginning in 2007 when he declared that a better understanding of the photosynthesis process could lead to economical storage of solar energy as chemical fuel. He later announced that his group had developed a highly efficient anode electrocatalyst for use in electrolysis of water employing inexpensive materials. His work centers around the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry, particularly in the theory of proton coupled electron transfer. He is also the director of the Solar Revolution Project at MIT which seeks to create innovations towards the use of solar energy in large scale, mainstream applications.

As Director of Programs at UNAGB, Dan oversees the coordination, execution, and continuous improvement of all UNAGB programs.

Dan Rather is a journalist and former news anchor for the CBS Evening News and is now managing editor and anchor of a television news magazine, Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of The CBS Evening News for 24 years. He also contributed to CBS' 60 Minutes.

Dan Reiter, B.A. (1989), Northwestern University, Ph.D. (1994), University of Michigan, John M. Olin post-doctoral fellow in national security, Harvard University (1994-1995) specializes in international conflict, foreign policy decision-making, national security policy, international alliances. His current research interests include why democracies win wars, international sources of democratization, whether democracies are more likely to ally with each other, and using event history analysis to study international conflict.

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He studied Humanities at the University of Glamorgan and later returned there for an MA in Writing, which he completed in 1997. He has worked on a fruit and vegetable farm, in the stockroom of a book shop, behind the bar of his parents' pub, as a teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, and, sporadically, as a full-time writer. He has published two collections of short fiction: *Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories* (2000), which contains very short, darkly humorous stories about romantic relationships, and *Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love *(2001), which consists of seven longer stories on a similar theme. His first novel,* Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey*, was published in April 2003, and is about a dog's travels across Italy. This was followed by *Little White Car* (2004). Dan Rhodes was recently named by *Granta *magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'. His latest novel is *Gold* (2007), shortlisted for the 2008 Catherine Maclean Prize.

Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and associate at t_he Boston Globe_. He has been named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year 14 times and 12 times has been voted one of America's top ten sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2016 Shaughnessy was the recipient of the BBWAA Career Excellence Award for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing,'' presented at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Shaughnessy has written thirteen books, including New York Times bestseller _Francona, The Curse of the Bambino,_ and_ Senior Year_. He most recently wrote "_Wish It Lasted Forever – Life With The Larry Bird Celtics_", a book about his days covering the 1980s Bird Celtics.