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Moses is an American educator and civil rights activist, known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Since 1982 Moses has developed the nationwide Algebra Project in the United States. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship and other awards for this work, which emphasizes teaching algebra skills to minority students based on broad-based community organizing and collaboration with parents, teachers and students. Moses earned a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard, and received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions.

Bob Prescott is Director of Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on Cape Cod, where he is actively involved in coastal issues and research. He has a degree in wildlife biology from the University of Massachusetts and has studied such diverse topics as whale strandings, harbor seal distribution around Cape Cod, and, most recently, the home ranges of box turtles. Bob is also Massachusetts coordinator for the Northeast Sea Turtle Stranding Network. His particular interests include seabirds and coastal ecosystems. Bob has led tours throughout the world, including Baja, Costa Rica, the Galápagos Islands, Churchill, Antarctica, Belize, and Big Bend, Texas.

Bob Schieffer is the former anchor and moderator of *Face the Nation*, CBS News' Sunday public affairs broadcast. He has also served as CBS News' chief Washington correspondent. Schieffer has covered Washington for CBS News for more than 40 years and is one of the few broadcast or print journalists to have covered all four major beats in the nation's capital - the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. He was chief Washington correspondent beginning in 1982, congressional correspondent in 1989, has covered every presidential campaign and has been a floor reporter at all of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions since 1972. In 2004, he was chosen as moderator for the third presidential debate. A member of the Broadcasting/Cable Hall of Fame, Schieffer was named the 2003 recipient of the Paul White Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. Schieffer joined CBS News in 1969 and, after a brief stint as a general assignment reporter, was named Pentagon correspondent, a post he held for four years. Before joining CBS News, he was a reporter at *the Fort Worth Star-Telegram* and, in 1965, became the first reporter from a Texas newspaper to report from Vietnam. Schieffer later became news anchor at WBAP-TV Dallas/Fort Worth, a post that eventually led to his joining CBS News. The author of three books, Schieffer's most recent book is *Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award Winning News Broadcast*. He is also author of the 2003 *New York Times* bestseller, *This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You On TV, and Acting President*, published in 1989. Shieffer's latest book is [\_Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News\_](https://www.amazon.com/Overload-Finding-Truth-Todays-Deluge/dp/153810721X "") (2017).

Bob Seay was the transportation reporter for GBH News.

Known for his ecclectic sense of graphic design, Bob Staake's illustrations and images appear in everything from magazines to books, animation to greeting cards, advertising to newspapers, cereal boxes to CD-ROM games. He has authored and/or illustrated over 40 books, including *Headlines* (written by Jay Leno, illustrated by Staake), *The Complete Book Of Caricature* and *The Complete Book Of Humorous Art *(both authored by Staake). *The New York Times* named Staake's *The Red Lemon* one of the 10 best illustrated books of 2006. Staake lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts in a 200-year-old house on the elbow of Cape Cod.

Mr. Zelnick spent 21 years with *ABC News*. He covered national political and congressional affairs from 1994 to 1998. He served as Pentagon correspondent from 1986 to 1994, covering the end of the Cold War and the first Persian Gulf War. Mr. Zelnick reported from Israel from 1984-86 and Moscow, from 1982 to 1984. Before joining ABC News in 1977, Mr. Zelnick covered the Supreme Court for National Public Radio and *the Christian Science Monitor *and served as executive editor of the historic Nixon-Frost Interviews, broadcast in 1977. The holder of two Emmy Awards and two Gavel Awards, Mr. Zelnick began his career in 1967 as a freelance writer from Vietnam and worked in Alaska for *the Anchorage Daily News* in 1968 and 1969. A frequent television analyst and contributor to many newspapers and scholarly journals, Mr. Zelnick is the author of four books, including *Gore: A Political Life*.

Bobby is the Vice President of Research & Measurement at Group Nine Media (parent company of Thrillist, The Dodo, NowThis, Seeker). Bobby started his career at Nielsen in ad effectiveness research. Prior to the launch of Group Nine, Bobby led building the research offering of Thrillist focusing on branded content impact, audience measurement, advertising effectiveness, and customized experimental research. Currently, he's focusing on proving the value of branded content video distributed to social platforms, creating best practices for aligning content against audience interest profiles, and overseeing Group Nine's custom audience research panel, Laboratory Nine.

Bobby Sanabria is a percussionist, drummer, composer, arranger, recording artist, producer, filmmaker, conductor, educator, and the recipient of multiple Grammy nominations. He has worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, and Mario Bauz, among many others. Mr. Sanabria was a consultant in the Smithsonian's historic four year traveling exhibit "Latin Jazz: La Combinacin Perfecta," and was featured in two of the exhibit's short films. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and the New School.

Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott began serving his ninth term as a Member of Congress on January 6, 2009. Prior to serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Scott served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978 to 1983 and in the Senate of Virginia from 1983 to 1993. Rep. Scott's Official Portrait. During his 15-year tenure in the Virginia General Assembly, Rep. Scott successfully sponsored laws that are critical to Virginians in healthcare, education, employment, economic development, crime prevention, social services and consumer protection. His legislative successes included laws that improved healthcare benefits for women, infants and children, increased the Virginia minimum wage and created the Governor's Employment and Training Council. In November 1992, Rep. Scott was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Through this election, Rep. Scott made history by becoming the first African American elected to Congress from Virginia since Reconstruction and only the second African American elected to Congress in Virginia's history. Rep. Scott was born on April 30, 1947 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Newport News, Virginia. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Boston College Law School. After graduating from law school, he returned to Newport News and practiced law from 1973 to 1991. He received an honorable discharge for his service in the Massachusetts National Guard and the United States Army Reserve.

Bonnie Abaunza joined Participant as Vice President, Campaign Development & Operations in May, 2007, where she is responsible for the creation and implementation of advocacy campaigns for Participants films. Prior to Participant, Bonnie served for six years as Director of the Artists for Amnesty program for the United States headquarters of Amnesty International, cultivating relationships with celebrity spokespeople interested in leveraging their visibility to support critical human rights and social justice issues and raising Amnesty Internationals visibility, enhance organizational diversity and attract a new generation of activists through the power of popular media. During her time as Director, Artists for Amnesty has produced four film festivals, four Academy Awards viewing parties to benefit Amnesty, quarterly entertainment industry salons, more than 50 high-profile feature and documentary screening events, and numerous fundraisers, art showings, and educational and promotional events. Bonnie graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, with specialization in International Relations. Recipient of the 2004 Hispanic Heritage Award given by PBS affiliate KCET Los Angeles and Union Bank of California for her singular contributions to the arts and the Latino community, she has also received commendations from the United States Congress (House of Representatives) and from the City of Los Angeles. She currently serves as Board Chair, Artists for Amnesty and on the Board of Casa Libre/Freedom House operated by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.