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Daniel Hernandez is a congressional intern for rep. Gabrielle Giffords and is credited with helping to save her life by administering fist aid to her at the scene of the shooting.

Daniel Immerwahr is an associate professor at Northwestern University, specializing in twentieth-century U.S. history within a global context. His first book, Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015), offers a critical account of grassroots development campaigns launched by the United States at home and abroad. It won the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History's annual book award. His second book, How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), tells the history of the United States with its overseas territory included in the story. That book was a national bestseller and a New York Times critic's choice for one of the best books of 2019. Immerwahr's writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, and Slate, among other places.

Daniel J. Carlat, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, and is the Editor-in-Chief of *The Carlat Psychiatry Report*, a monthly newsletter on psychopharmacology widely read by psychiatrists and nurses in the United States. His blog, The Carlat Psychiatry Blog, has received an award for outstanding mental health journalism. He also blogs for *Psychology Today* and *Psychiatric Times*. In addition to his medical writing, Dr. Carlat has written for the *New York Times*, the *New York Times Magazine*, and Wired. Dr. Carlat is an active member of the American Psychiatric Association, and is an elected Massachusetts representative on the organization's national assembly.

Daniel John Hinkley is an American plantsman, garden writer, horticulturist and nurseryman. He is best known for establishing Heronswood, in Kingston, Washington; and Windcliff, on the Kitsap Peninsula near Indianola, WA; and for collecting, propagating, and naming varieties of plants new to the North American nursery trade. Dan Hinkley earned his Bachelor of Science in Ornamental Horticulture, and Horticulture Education, from Michigan State University in 1976. He went on to graduate school at the University of Washington, where he accomplished a Master of Science degree in Urban Horticulture in 1985. Hinkley was an instructor of horticulture at Edmonds Community College, in Edmonds, Washington, from 1987 to 1996. In 1987 Hinkley began gardening on the land that would become Heronswood with his partner, the architect Robert L. Jones. By the mid 1990's Heronswood Nursery was doing a thriving mail-order business, and the display garden tours gained international acclaim. Hinkley became a regular speaker at seminars offered during the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. In 2000, Hinkley and Jones sold the business, and display gardens, to Burpee Seeds, but continued to run the nursery. Hinkley and Jones moved to a residence separate from the nursery in Indianola, Washington.

Daniel J. Lasker is Norbert Blechner Professor of Jewish Values at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, where he teaches medieval Jewish philosophy in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought. Prof. Lasker holds three degrees from Brandeis University and also studied at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In addition to Ben-Gurion University, he has taught at Princeton University, Yale University, University of Toronto, Ohio State University, University of Texas, University of Washington, Yeshiva University, Jewish Theological Seminary, Kirkland College and Gratz College. Professor Lasker is the author of four books and over a hundred other publications in the fields of Jewish philosophy and theology, the Jewish-Christian debate, Karaism, the Jewish calendar, and Judaism and modern medicine. He has also lectured widely at universities and synagogues throughout North America, as well as at professional conferences on five continents. He is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, of which he is a board member. In February 2002, Prof. Lasker was scholar-in-residence for the Jewish community of Houston, Texas. In August, 2003, he will be on the faculty of an NEH summer seminar "Representations of the 'Other': Jews in Medieval Christendom" to be held in Oxford, England, and in Fall, 2004, Prof. Lasker will be the Dean Ernest Schwarcz Eminent Visiting Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Daniel J. Levitin is James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences at McGill University. He is the author of two best-selling books about music cognition: *This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession* and *The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature*. Levitin and singer Bobby McFerrin co-hosted *The Music Instinct: Science and Song*, a two-hour documentary on the science of music that aired on PBS in June 2009. Levitin earned his BA in psychology and cognitive science from Stanford, and went on to earn his PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Oregon, researching complex auditory patterns and pattern processing in expert and non-expert populations. He completed post-doctoral training at Stanford University Medical School (in Neuroimaging) and at UC Berkeley (in Cognitive Psychology). He has consulted on audio sound source separation for the U.S. Navy, and on audio quality for several rock bands (including the Grateful Dead and Steely Dan) and record labels, and served as one of the "Golden Ears" expert listeners in the original Dolby AC3 compression tests. For two years, he worked at the Silicon Valley think tank Interval Research Corporation, where he focused on issues in human-computer interaction and applications of cognitive psychology. Prior to entering academia, Levitin was a record producer and engineer working with artists such as Blue Öyster Cult, Chris Isaak, and Stevie Wonder. An accomplished saxophonist, he has performed with a variety of musicians including Mel Tormé, Sting, David Byrne, and Blue Öyster Cult. He has been awarded 17 gold and platinum records.

Daniel James Brown grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Diablo Valley College, the University of California at Berkeley, and UCLA. He taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford before becoming a technical writer and editor. He now write narrative nonfiction books full time. His primary interest as a writer is in bringing compelling historical events to life as vividly and accurately as he can. Brown lives in the country outside of Seattle, Washington with his wife, two daughters, and an assortment of cats, dogs, chickens, and honeybees. When not writing, he is likely to be birding, gardening, fly fishing, reading American history, or chasing bears away from the bee hives.

Daniel Kehlmann's *Measuring the World* was translated into more than 40 languages. His work has received several awards, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin.

Daniel Klein is a former philosophy major at Harvard. In the years since he has been a joke writer for several comedians, including Flip Wilson and Lily Tomlin, has help design pranks for Candid Camera, and helped design the board game Group Therapy.

Daniel C. Kurtzer is the S.Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East policy studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Following a 29-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Kurtzer retired in 2005 with the rank of Career-Minister. From 2001-2005 he served as the United States Ambassador to Israel and from 1997-2001 as the United States Ambassador to Egypt. He served as a political officer at the American embassies in Cairo and Tel Aviv, Deputy Director of the Office of Egyptian Affairs, speechwriter on the Policy Planning Staff, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. Throughout his career, Kurtzer was instrumental in formulating and executing U.S. policy toward the Middle East peace process. He remains active in Track II diplomacy related to the Middle East. Kurtzer was appointed by Secretary of State John Kerry to serve on the Secretary's Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Governor Chris Christie has appointed Kurtzer to serve on the New Jersey-Israel State Commission. Previously, Kurtzer served as an advisor to the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and as a member of the Advisory Council of the American Bar Association's Middle East Rule of Law Initiative. In 2007, he was named as the first Commissioner of the professional Israel Baseball League. He is the co-author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East; co-author of The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011; and editor of Pathways to Peace: America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Ph.D. Columbia University.

Daniel Levitas is a writer, researcher and expert on the subject of racist, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi organizations. Since 1986, he has testified as an expert witness or provided pre-trial consulting in state and/or federal court in Iowa, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and in Canada. His expertise includes such areas as the Ku Klux Klan, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, the Skinhead movement, the Aryan Nations, white racist prison gangs, crossburning, hate-motivated violence, the militia movement and the rural Posse Comitatus. Mr. Levitas has written extensively about the activities of hate groups and he has been quoted by numerous media outlets, including: *the New York Times, St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, CNN, public television and National Public Radio*. He is a contributing author to *Anti-Semitism in America Today (Birch Lane Press, 1995)*. From 1991 to 1992, he edited *When Hate Groups Come to Town: A Handbook of Effective Community Responses*, a 192-page handbook about constructive responses to hate group activity and bigoted violence. He is a contributing writer to *Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia* on the subjects of the history of American anti-Semitism; hate crimes and the US militia movement. He has written for the Nation, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the New York Times, Roll* Call, Congress Monthly, Reform Judaism magazine *and other publications. Mr. Levitas has conducted training sessions and seminars for academics and students, public officials, community leaders and law enforcement officers throughout the United States. He has lectured widely at colleges and universities and his speeches and public presentations have been sponsored by groups as diverse as the W.E.B. Dubois Center for Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, and the Rural Sociological Society.