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Dave Epstein is a meterologist who partners with GBH News to provide daily weather updates and weekly higher-level conversations on Morning Edition.

Dave Goodman is a production engineer and producer for GBH News. Feedback? Questions? Reach out to Dave at david.goodman@gbh.org.

Over the past sixteen years Dave Johnston has overseen the development and implementation of many of the Public Broadcasting Service's business processes and information systems for the K-12 and higher education divisions. Johnston established PBS's first public Internet "gopher server" and in 1994, along with several colleagues, launched the first PBS Web site that was to become PBS Online. In his current role he is responsible for the technical infrastructure and services of PBS Online, the award-winning website that currently attracts more than 145 million page views per month and is the number one "Dot Org" site on the Internet (according to Nielsen NetRatings). Mr. Johnston has contributed to the "transition to digital broadcast" as PBS's representative to the ATSC T3/S17 specialist group working to create standards for the enhancement of digital television. He also served as the PBS member of the Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF). Johnston lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three children.

Dave Kellam’s professional career began at the Indiana Division of Fish and Wildlife where he created a statewide angler education program called Go FishIN. He moved eastward with his family to become the Executive Director of the Amoskeag Fishways Learning and Visitors Center in Manchester, NH. His career continued to move seaward as he managed communications for an estuary management group at the University of New Hampshire and for an ocean science and policy group in Boston. Dave lives in Exeter, NH with his wife and teenage daughter.

David Martin grew up on a farm, worked in steel mills, served in the military, wrote for magazines, and for the past 15 years has been a full-time novelist.

Dave Marvit, co-chair of the OASIS LegalXML eContracts Technical Committee, spends most of his time developing new technologies for Fujitsu Laboratories of America. These developments range across a variety of fields including automated negotiation systems, interface design for hand-held devices, and business applications of statistical natural language processing. Marvit has gone from studying neuroscience at Caltech and Stanford to helping in an Oscar winning cutting room on Disney's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," to being selected by *Time Magazine* as one of the dozen most influential people in the digital world in 2001. In addition to producing an award-winning series of documentaries for WGBH-TV's "Nova" science team, an award-winning educational CD-ROM for Knowledge Adventure, and executive producing a virtual world for hospital-bound children with Steven Spielberg, Dave has served on the faculty at Caltech and founded two startup companies.

**David Morimoto** is an ecologist, conservation biologist, and animal behaviorist by training. He has studied the effects of forest fragmentation on Ovenbirds in Massachusetts and performed basic bird inventories in the tropics, most recently on the Rupununi River in Guyana, South America. He is currently involved in urban bird research studying Cambridge birds and is working on the development of citizen science initiatives and the creation of a biodiversity map of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown. Most recently, he has been studying the reforestation (that he calls reforestoration)of rice fields on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. His areas of academic focus and expertise include: ecology, ornithology, conservation biology, and animal behavior. He is very interested in Complexity Science and in unifying principles of complex systems. His teachers have included visionary scientists Lynn Margulis (symbiosis in evolution) and Richard Forman (Landscape Ecology). David holds a BS from Stonehill College and a MA and PhD from Boston University.

Co-owner of a video special-effects company headquartered on Newbury Street. Co-owner with wife Lynn of Graves Island lighthouse

Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation Magazine, their first sports editor in 160 years of existence. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sport, including most recently "The Kaepernick Effect". He is the co-producer, writer and narrator of the new documentary, "Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL". Zirin has also worked as an advisor for filmmakers and documentarians such as Ang Lee and Ken Burns. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin has been a frequent guest on ESPN, MSNBC, and CNN. He also hosts The Nation’s Edge of Sports podcast and cohosts The Collison on WPFW. His new book is a biography of the historian Howard Zinn called "The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn".

The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, are award winning NPR documentary producers who have been working together for more than twenty-five years. They are the creators of the popular *Hidden Kitchens* series on Morning Edition, the Peabody Award winning NPR series *Lost & Found Sound* and the post 9-11 *Sonic Memorial Project*, co-produced with colleague, Jay Allison. They are currently producing an NPR and online series about girls around the world. As independent producers, they are the creators of more than 200 stories for public broadcast about the lives, histories, art and rituals of people who have shaped our diverse cultural heritage. They are the recipients of numerous awards including the duPont-Columbia Award, two Peabodys, three Audies and many others. They are the authors of *Hidden Kitchens, Stories, Recipes and More from NPR's The Kitchen Sisters*, a 2005 New York Times Notable Book and a James Beard nominee. The Kitchen Sisters are involved in educating and training new voices for public media. They teach at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Social Documentary Graduate Program at UC Santa Cruz and give presentations and workshops at universities, radio stations, and public events throughout the country and abroad. They have an active internship program and participate in the public radio community throughout the country. Their non-profit organization, The Kitchen Sisters Productions is dedicated to exploring complex cultural issues through personal stories, bringing seldom heard voices to air, and building community through storytelling. In addition to producing radio, Davia Nelson is also a screenwriter and casting director. She lives in San Francisco.

A naturalist, astronomer, author, and artist, David's expertise is in communicating the wonderment of science. He is the past Director of the Fiske Planetarium & Science Center and the originator of the Science Discovery Program at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Marketing Communications Director at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, and Marketing Director for PBS's Emmy-winning NOVA series, *Evolution*. He is also a recognized writer and space artist with work appearing in the new 2008 BBC television series *UNIVERSE*, *Time magazine*, *US News & World Report*, *ABC Nightly News*, CNN, *NY Times*, *USA Today*, *National Geographic*, *Sky & Telescope, Astronomy, and Scientific American*. He is the author and illustrator of *Planets, Stars & Galaxies and The New Solar System*, published by *National Geographic*, as well as a scholar lecturer on Smithsonian World Tours and Smithsonian Journeys, and popular host of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics programs *Observatory Nights* and the Harvard Lecture Series, *Everything I Learned About Science I Learned At The Movies*. He is also an avid telescope maker and an astronomical and underwater photographer.

David Edwards is a Harvard professor and founder of Le Laboratoire, a new innovation space in downtown Paris, where artists and scientists perform collaborative experiments. The outcomes of these experiments are exhibited to the public in the form of contemporary art and design installations. Since its opening in October 2007, Le Laboratoire exhibitions have attracted international media attention, with exhibition themes ranging from contemporary art, to industrial design, to humanitarian advocacy. The principal of Le Laboratoire as an artscience catalyst for innovation is described in David’s recent book, *Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation*, which draws on the experience of many contemporary innovators in Boston and internationally. Among these experiences are David’s own as founder of many for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including The Cloud Foundation, a Boston-based foundation that oversees Cloud Place, a dynamic center for urban youth arts, and Medicine in Need, or MEND, a global health not-for-profit funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mend is based in Boston, Paris and Pretoria. David has received numerous national and international awards for his work and lives in Boston and Paris with his wife Aurelie and three sons.

David A. Kaplan is the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, where he covered the Supreme Court for a decade. His other books include The Silicon Boys (a New York Times bestseller that was translated into six languages), The Accidental President (an account of the 2000 election on which HBO’s Recount was partially based), and Mine’s Bigger (a biography of the largest sailboat in the world that won the Loeb Award for Best Business Book of 2008). He teaches courses in journalism and ethics at NYU. He and his family live in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.

David A. Kessler is a professor at UCSF. He served as commissioner of the US food and drug administration, was appointed by former President Bush, reappointed by former President Clinton, and has served as the dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California.

David Taylor writes about revealing connections between people and their worlds. His articles have appeared in *Smithsonian, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Outside, The Christian Science Monitor*, and elsewhere.

David received his B.S. in 1986 from MIT, Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University, and M.D. in 1994 from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internship, residency and clinical fellowship training at Endocrinologist and human geneticist David Altshuler is a founding member of the Broad Institute and serves as director of the Broad’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics, as well as the Institute’s first Deputy Director and Chief Academic Officer. David is one of the world’s leading scientists in the study of human genetic variation and its application to disease, using tools and information from the Human Genome Project. He has been a lead investigator in The SNP Consortium, the International HapMap Project, and the 1,000 Genomes Project - public-private partnerships that have created public maps of human genome sequence variation as a foundation for disease research. His work has contributed to the understanding of gene variants that influence the risk of common conditions, including type 2 diabetes, blood cholesterol, prostate cancer, systemic lupus erythematosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. These studies provide new clues about the mechanisms that cause these diseases, and more generally, provide a blueprint for analyzing the role of genetic variations in human health. David is also a professor of genetics and medicine at Harvard Medical School, and in the department of molecular biology at the Center for Human Genetic Research, as well as the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.