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Jacques Servin (also known as Andy Bichlbaum) is one of the leading members of The Yes Men, a culture jamming activist group. Their exploits in "identity correction" are documented in the film *The Yes Men*. As Ray Thomas, he is a co-founder of RTMark. A former Maxis employee, he was fired after secretly adding code into the game *SimCopter* that would cause sprites of males in swimming trunks kissing each other to appear on certain dates. This was not discovered until after the game had been published. Servin is also the author of two books of short stories, published with FC2.

Bishop Lewter's ministerial career began in 1973 while still a student at Oberlin College majoring in communications and religion. While on campus, Bishop Lewter directed the Oberlin Black Ensemble, served as chairman of Abusua and president of African-Heritage House. He also helped to find the Oberlin Voices of Christ. After graduating with a BA with honors in 1976, he entered Harvard University in pursuit of a master's of divinity degree. Bishop Lewter holds an earned doctorate of ministry degree from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. In Boston he served at the Union Baptist Church with Pastor Melvin G. Brown as an assistant pastor in charge of communications and drama, directing James Baldwin's "Amen Corner." In 1979 he graduated from Harvard Divinity School and spent additional time in a post-graduate study program at Oxford University. In 1985, Bishop Lewter responded to an invitation by the Oakley Baptist Church to come and assume the pastorate. His tenure is marked by the development of a live TV ministry, growth of the membership, and a church newspaper. In 1991, Bishop Lewter made history by leading the New Life Fellowship of Churches in the purchase of WO8BV TV8, Ohio's only African-American religious television station. The station has the participation of approximately 40 churches ranging from Columbus, New York, Chicago, and Atlanta. In February 1993, Bishop Lewter led the African American Religious Connection in the acquisition of their first radio station, WLGO 1170 AM, reaching 16 counties in central South Carolina.

Andy Carvin is senior strategist for National Public Radios Social Media Desk. As coordinator of NPRs social media strategy, he has helped NPR programs learn how to use user-generated content, crowdsourcing and social networks to promote dialogue and collaboration with the general public. Prior to coming to NPR in 2006, Andy was the director and editor of the Digital Divide Network, an online community of more than 10,000 educators, community activists, policymakers and business leaders in over 140 countries working to find solutions to the digital divide. Andy is also author of the PBS blog learning.now (http://www.pbs.org/learningnow), which focuses on the impact of Internet culture on education.

Andy Danylchuk, PhD, is an assistant professor of fish conservation at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

**Andy Danyo Kubis** is a freelance producer, reporter and editor based in Pittsburgh. She produces the Trump on Earth podcast and Hacking Hunger, a podcast for the UN's World Food Program. She also produced early episodes of the podcast Being Human, from the University of Pittsburgh's Humanities Center, and Cat Facts, a cat-based podcast hosted by her son. Andy started her radio career at NPR and worked as a producer for The Bob Edwards Show/Bob Edwards Weekend for the full ten-year run of the show. Her environmental reporting has won top honors from the National Press Club and the Society for Environmental Journalists.

Rhines is a sixth year Applied Mathematics Ph.D student in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, where he's advised by Peter Huybers. He studies the atmosphere's water cycle and climate variability on a wide range of timescales. A few of his research interests are: Estimation of moisture sources — regions from which precipitation most recently evaporated. Mapping of dynamical causes of rainfall (i.e., the processes responsible for transport of water vapor from source to sink) such as atmospheric rivers. Interpretation of stable water isotopes in precipitation, and where they are recorded in paleoclimate records such as ice cores and speleothems. Orographic precipitation (that which is caused by mountains or other underlying topography), and the effect it has upon ice sheet mass balance and global water resources. The past and future of climate variability and extremes. He uses modern measurements, atmospheric models, and paleoclimate records to examine how temperature and precipitation vary in space and time.

Andy X. Vargas is the State Representative for the 3rd Essex District (Haverhill) in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He is a member of the Massachusetts Black & Latino Legislative Caucus and was previously elected to the Haverhill City Council, taking office at age 22 and serving as the city’s first Latino elected official.

Born the son of immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey, Aneesh Chopra has spent his life focusing on education and innovation. Aneesh’s father immigrated to the United States in 1966, and enrolled in the engineering program at Villanova University. He would go on to earn three patents for his work in the refrigeration industry. His mother began a career as an entry-level clerk and worked her way up to become a financial project manager. Aneesh’s family worked hard to lift themselves into the middle class and give their children access to great public schools and all of the opportunities afforded by a strong education. Aneesh attended Johns Hopkins University and then the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. After graduate school, Aneesh worked in the private sector, including a job at the Advisory Board Company – a healthcare think tank dedicated to helping hospitals better serve patients. While at the Advisory Board Company, Governor Mark Warner appointed Aneesh to several councils and commissions. Through this work, Aneesh decided he wanted to pursue his lifelong dream of entering public service. He began full-time service to the Commonwealth when Governor Tim Kaine tapped him to serve as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology. In this position he traveled throughout Virginia helping families and small businesses harness the power of technology and innovation to find pragmatic solutions, create jobs and improve their quality of life. In 2009, based on his record of success in Virginia, President Obama appointed Aneesh as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Aneesh was charged with promoting innovation to address the nation’s most urgent priorities -- from creating jobs to reducing health care costs and keeping our nation secure. As with his work in Virginia, Aneesh brought new energy to tackle some of our nation’s biggest problems. Upon Aneesh’s departure to run for office, President Obama said, “his legacy of leadership and innovation will benefit Americans for years to come, and I thank him for his outstanding service.”

Dr. Angela Belcher is a materials chemist with expertise in the fields of biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces and solid state chemistry. The focus of Dr. Belchers research is understanding and using the process by which nature makes materials in order to design novel hybrid organic-inorganic electronic and magnetic materials on new length scales. Her research is very interdisciplinary in nature and brings together the fields of inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and electrical engineering. Among her awards are the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (2000), and the Du Pont Young Investigators Award (1999). Her research was mentioned in a July 2001 *Forbes* magazine cover story on nanotechnology.

Angela Bruce-Raeburn, is Oxfam America's Senior Policy Advisor for Humanitarian Response-Haiti. Prior to Oxfam Angela served as Chief Executive Officer/President of Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc, a non-profit providing financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills to young people. A Congressional Black Caucus Fellow in the Office of Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick from Michigan from 2006 to 2007, Bruce-Raeburn focused on issues related to human trafficking and modern day slavery. Bruce-Raeburn was previously a two-time Rotary International award winner as an Ambassadorial Scholar at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and a Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford in Bradford England. Fluent in French, Bruce-Raeburn holds three Masters Degrees, in Public Administration, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.

Dr. Calabrese Barton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her start at the University of Texas in 1999, she was promoted to Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in Science Education. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy from Michigan State University in 1995 following work in industry as a chemist after receiving her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 with honors. She has a book, *Feminist Science Education, published with Teachers College Press *(1998). Just recently, she received the 2000 Early Career Award for the National Association for Research in Science Teaching.