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Barry Eisler spent three years with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan. Eisler writes novels and blogs about torture, civil liberties, and law.

For the past decade, efforts of the International Weapons Control Center have been driven by its Director, Professor Barry Kellman. The IWCC has worked closely with national and international organizations and has sought to forge a unified network of key players devoted to preventing bioviolence. During the course of this time, Professor Kellman has been the featured speaker on international security issues at over two hundred briefings, meetings, and workshops, for numerous foreign governments, international organizations, U.S. government agencies, and NGO's.

Since 1992, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn has served as executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington, DC-based organization dedicated to the preservation of the Constitutions religious liberty provisions. In addition to his work as a long-time activist and lawyer in the civil liberties field, Lynn is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, offering him a unique perspective on church-state issues.

Barry Meier, author of Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic, was a member of the New York Times reporting team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He is also a Pulitzer finalist and a two-time winner of the George Polk Award. At The Times, his work concentrated on the intersection of business, medicine and the public’s health. He exposed the dangers of various drugs and medical products, and was the first journalist to shed a national spotlight on the abuse of OxyContin. Image: [BarryMeierBooks.com](https://www.barrymeierbooks.com "barrymeierbooks.com")

Barry R. Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and Director of the MIT Security Studies Program, is author of *The Sources of Military Doctrine*.

Barry Strauss received bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in history from Cornell University and Yale University. He has lived and studied in Greece, Germany, and Israel. He has traveled extensively in Italy, Turkey, Croatia, Cyprus, Jordan, and other countries with classical sites. He has also taken part in archaeological excavations. He speaks and reads seven foreign languages. Aside from a brief stint as a newspaper reporter, he has made his career as a college teacher. At Cornell, he is professor of history and classics.

Barry Werth is an award-winning journalist and the acclaimed author of six books. His most recent book is The Antidote, a close-up of the upstart pharmaceutical company Vertex and the ferocious but indispensable world of pharma that it inhabits. His previous book, Banquet at Delmonico’s, was named one of Barnes & Noble’s top ten nonfiction books of 2009 and one of Amazon’s top ten history books of the year.

Barry Zuckerman is a medical professor and chair of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and chief of pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Also a co-founder of Reach Out and Read, a national program that has put more than 20 million free books in the hands of children through doctor's offices. He is currently serving as chairman of the Read Early, Read Aloud campaign sponsored by the Southern California First 5 Children and Families Commission. Dr. Zuckerman has been a national leader in expanding pediatric health care to more effectively address the needs of low income and minority children. In addition to Reach Out and Read, he started the Medical-legal Partnership for Children (MLPC) at Boston Medical Center, which uses legal advocacy to address the social causes of the health and developmental problems in low-income children. He also co-founded the Healthy Steps Program for Children, a strategic program designed to keep pediatricians informed of new findings in early childhood development. An author of more than 200 scientific publications, Dr. Zuckerman has also served as the editor for nine books. He has served on prestigious national committees, including the National Commission on Children and the Carnegie Commission on Meeting the Needs of Young Children. Dr. Zuckerman has been a consultant for UNICEF, providing technical assistance to Turkey and Bangladesh as they strengthen their child health services.

Produced live at WGBH Studios in Boston, Basic Black is the longest-running program on public television focusing on the interests of people of color. The show, which was originally called Say Brother, was created in 1968 during the height of the civil rights movement as a response to the demand for public television programs reflecting the concerns of communities of color. Each episode features a panel discussion across geographic borders and generational lines with the most current stories, interviews and commentaries.

Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States. Before her appointment as the representative to the U.S., she worked as a journalist for 17 years, including a job with the Financial Times in Britain and Japan. She began her public service career as the High Representative to the United Kingdom. Her work as a representative strengthens ties between Kurdistan and the United States, advocates for the KRG's position on a wide array of political, security, humanitarian, economic, and cultural matters, and promotes coordination and partnership.

Although Bayard Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement from the advent of its modern period in the 1950s until well into the 1980s, his name was seldom mentioned; he received comparatively little press or media attention, and others' names were usually much more readily associated with the movement than his was. His was a behind-the-scenes role that, for all its importance, never garnered Rustin the public acclaim he may have deserved. Rustin's homosexuality and early communist affiliation probably meant that the importance of his contribution to the civil rights and peace movements would never be acknowledged. However, fairness demands that the extent of Rustin's work receive a fair public reception. Bayard Taylor Rustin was born on March 17, 1912, to Florence Rustin, one of eight children of Julia and Janifer Rustin of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Florence's child had been born out of wedlock; the father was Archie Hopkins. Julia and Janifer decided to raise young Bayard as their son, the youngest of the large Rustin family. Julia Rustin had been raised a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), and even though she attended the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the denomination of her husband, she impressed on the children she raised certain Quaker principles: the equality of all human beings before God, the vital need for nonviolence, the importance of dealing with everyone with love and respect.

A seasoned performer on the international touring circuit, and having played over one thousand concerts as a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Muir String Quartet, Bayla Keyes currently concertises throughout America as recitalist, as soloist with orchestras, and as a member of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva and the acclaimed piano trio, Triple Helix. With degrees from Curtis Institute and Yale University and her first professional experience with Music from Marlboro, Keyes naturally extends her musical commitment to education. She is currently Professor of Violin at Boston University and Artistic Director of both the Interlochen Chamber Music Conference and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute String Quartet Seminar. Her piano trio, Triple Helix, is in residence at Wellesley College, where their series of Beethoven concerts garnered them the accolade of Musicians of the Year 2002 from *the Boston Globe*. Their recently released CD *A Sense of Place* was mentioned as Best of North America, December 2004 by *Gramophone Magazine*. Keyes has recorded for Video Artists International, Ecoclassics, CRI, Musical Heritage, EMI-France, Sony, Koch, Bridge, MRS and New World Records. She plays a Gennarius Gagliano made in 1740.