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Darrel J. Vandeveld is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve, who served tours of active duty in Bosnia, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan in the years following the 9-11 attacks on the U.S. In 2002, Mr. Vandeveld participated in the rendition of the so-called “Algerian Six” from Bosnia to Guantanamo; in 2008, a federal district court ordered five of the six released, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723, which granted Guantanamo detainees (the Algerian Six were the plaintiffs in the case) the right to habeas corpus. In 2007, the Army called Mr. Vandeveld, an experienced prosecutor in civilian life, to serve as a prosecutor in the Guantanamo Military Commissions. In the course of gathering the evidence against Mohammed Jawad, accused of wounding two U.S. soldiers in a hand grenade attack when he was 15-years old, Mr. Vandeveld – who by this time had been convinced by his opposing counsel, Professor David Frakt, of the moral and legal bankruptcy of the Military Commissions – discovered a confession obtained through torture, two suicide attempts by the accused, abusive interrogations, and the withholding of exculpatory evidence from the defense. These experiences led Mr. Vandeveld to a crisis of conscience. After he announced his resignation, his commander ordered a psychiatric evaluation. Professor Frakt later obtained a dismissal of Jawad’s case, in part because of Mr. Vandeveld’s own testimony. He is now Erie County, Pennsylvania's chief public defender. Mr. Vandeveld received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California.

Crate is serving his second term as a volunteer chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. He has been chairman since January of 2003. He is currently the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Affiliated Managers Group Inc., a publicly traded asset management holding company. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he is chairman of the Bates College Alumni Fund. Crate received his BA from Bates College and his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Darrell M. West is vice president and director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and holds the Douglas Dillon Chair. He is the director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings and is editor-in-chief of its TechTank blog. He is the author of The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation (Brookings), among other books.

Darren Cole seeks to blend emerging technologies with contemporary art practices through the form of site specific research. As a film and video professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, he created performance based work using 16mm film and interactive video. He was the first ever Digital Storyteller at Boston City Hall, Art New England Magazine nominated him as one of the top emerging artists of 2019, and as an artist fellow at Revolutionary Spaces, his installation “When Up, Look Down” was on view at Old South Meeting House 2021-2022.

Darryl Pinckney is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Pinckney was awarded The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 1992 for his novel High Cotton.

Daryl Copeland is a Canadian analyst, author and educator who writes and speaks on international policy, global issues, diplomacy and public management. He is Adjunct Professor of International Studies and a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre, and in 2009 was appointed as a Research Fellow at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy. Mr. Copeland grew up in Toronto and received his formal education at Jarvis C.I., the University of Western Ontario, where he won the Chancellor’s Prize (social sciences) Gold Medal (political science), and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, where he was awarded the Canada Council Special MA Scholarship. His informal learning, life skills and world-view have been nurtured over the course of years spent backpacking through six continents. He has experience and expertise in diplomacy, foreign ministries and careers in the foreign service, international and non-governmental organizations. From 1981 – 2009 Mr. Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings abroad in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia. Among his positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa Mr. Copeland worked as Deputy Director for International Communications; Director for Southeast Asia; Senior Advisor, Public Diplomacy; Director of Strategic Communications Services and; Senior Advisor, Strategic Policy and Planning.

Dash Shaw grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and studied at the School of Visual Arts. A prolific cartoonist and animator, he is the author of the 2008 graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button. He lives in Brooklyn.

Professor Dava Newman is currently the director of the Technology and Policy Program and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT. She is professor of Aeronautics and the Astronautics and Engineering Systems Division as well as an affiliate faculty in the Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences and Technology Division. Professor Newman’s research contributes to fundamental knowledge of human performance in extreme environments by interweaving biomechanics, human factors engineering, modeling, and design. In the space environment, she quantifies astronaut motion and studies the subtle mechanisms underlying neuron-musculoskeletal adaptation, which are not easily studied on earth. She is currently developing her fourth spaceflight experiment, the MICRO-G experiment, which will fly on the International Space Station in a few years. Professor Newman is concurrently designing a revolutionary, advanced spacesuit for future exploration missions, the Bio-Suit System, which she targets for 2020. She has been honored with a NASA Manned Flight Awareness Team Award and a NASA Group Achievement Award. She is a recognized AIAA Distinguished Lecturer, and recently received the National Aerospace Educator Award.

Dava Sobel has spent her entire professional life writing. Beginning fresh out of college as a technical writer for IBM, she moved quickly into journalism in January of 1970, just in time for the first Earth Day. Her two all-time favorite full-time jobs were as science writer for the *Cornell University News Bureau*, where her beat included everything from astronomy to veterinary medicine, and staff reporter in the Science News department of *The New York Times*, covering psychology and psychiatry. For twenty years she wrote freelance for numerous magazines, most notably *Harvard Magazine*, *Omni*, *Science Digest*, and *Discover*, as well as *Audubon, Life*, and *The New Yorker*. Sobel saw her first total solar eclipse in 1991, as a columnist with *Travel Holiday*, and attended Space Camp for an article in a retirement magazine called "New Choices". Sobel was born in 1947 in the Bronx.

Professor Baldwin has taught a range of courses on the African American experience and the history of modern thought. His research interests include intellectual and mass culture, Black radical thought and transnational social movements, race, space, and urban culture, competing conceptions of modernity, political economy and heritage tourism. Baldwin has been the recipient of the Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame (2000-2001) and the Carter G. Woodson Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia (2003-2004). He is currently at work on two manuscript projects: *Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Racial Foundations of U.S. Social Thought* and *UniverCities: How Knowledge Institutions are Re-Structuring the Urban Landscape.*

Dave Broker is the creator and host of **The Industrial Revolutions podcast**, which tells the story of how the last 250 years have had profound impacts on our world’s economies, governments, social relationships, environment, and more.

Dave Damm-Luhr, Ph.D., links his passion for environmental action with over 35 years supporting organizational leaders and teams grow and develop. Since retiring from Federal service, he has worked in state and local climate advocacy groups such as Elders Climate Action and Climate Action Brookline. In 2019 Dave helped organize a global "Climate Change and Consciousness" conference held at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland, where he met Dr. Ousmane Pame. Along with many others globally, Dave has supported Dr. Pame in growing REDES Ecovillages' capacity and in helping college students in their REDES-focused, remote service learning experiences.