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Brent Scowcroft has served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. In this capacity, he advised and assisted a wide range of U.S. and foreign corporate leaders on global joint venture opportunities, strategic planning, and risk assessment. His prior extraordinary twenty-nine-year military career began with graduation from West Point and concluded at the rank of Lieutenant General following service as the Deputy National Security Advisor. His Air Force service included Professor of Russian History at West Point; Assistant Air Attaché in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Head of the Political Science Department at the Air Force Academy; Air Force Long Range Plans; Office of the Secretary of Defense International Security Assistance; Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Military Assistant to President Nixon. Out of uniform, he continued in a public policy capacity by serving on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces, and the President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Commission. He currently serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. He earned his masters and doctorate in international relations from Columbia University.

Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the internationally acclaimed *Corpus Christi: Stories* and the editor of *Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer*. Named a Best Book of the Year by *The Independent* of London and *The Irish Times*, *Corpus Christi: Stories* received *The Southern Review*'s Annual Short Fiction Award, the Texas Institute of Letters' Debut Fiction Award, the Christopher Isherwood Prize, and the James Michener Fellowship. His work appears in magazines such as *The Paris Review*, *The New York Times Magazine*, *Esquire*, *The Oxford American*, and *Tin House*, and in anthologies such as *New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2003, 2004, and 2005*. He is a graduate of Miami University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the recipient of the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. He has written essays for Slate.com and is a regular contributor to NPR's *All Things Considered*. In 2006, the National Book Foundation honored him with a new National Book Award for writers under 35. A skateboarder for almost 20 years, he is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard.

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of five previous novels including, *Less Than Zero*, *The Rules of Attraction*, *American Psycho*, *Glamorama*, and *Lunar Park*, and a collection of stories, *The Informers*. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. *Less Than Zero*, *The Rules of Attraction*, A*merican Psycho*, and *The Informers* have all been made into films. He divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City.

Dr. Brett Finlay is a Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia.He obtained a B.Sc. (Honors) in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta, where he also did his Ph.D. (1986) in Biochemistry under Dr. William Paranchych, studying F-like plasmid conjugation. His post-doctoral studies were performed with Dr. Stanley Falkow at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he studied Salmonella invasion into host cells.In 1989, he joined UBC as an Assistant Professor in the Biotechnology Laboratory. Dr. Finlay’s research interests are focussed on host-pathogen interactions, at the molecular level. By combining cell biology with microbiology, he has been at the forefront of the emerging field called Cellular Microbiology, making several fundamental discoveries in this field, and publishing over 300 papers. His laboratory studies several pathogenic bacteria, with Salmonella and pathogenic E. coli interactions with host cells being the primary focus. He is well recognized internationally for his work, and has won several prestigious awards including the E.W.R. Steacie Prize, the CSM Fisher Scientific Award, a MRC Scientist, five Howard Hughes International Research Scholar Awards, a CIHR Distinguished Investigator, BC Biotech Innovation Award, the Michael Smith Health Research Prize, the IDSA Squibb award, the Jacob Biely Prize, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, an Officer of Canada and awarded the Order of BC, and is the UBC Peter Wall Distinguished Professor. He is a cofounder of former Inimex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Director of the SARS Accelerated Vaccine Initiative. He also serves on several editorial and advisory boards, and is a strong supporter of communicating science to the public.

Brett Gadsden is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. He received his Ph.D in History from Northwestern University. His book, *Victory Without Triumph: School Desegregation in Delaware*, is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive which may be the world's largest digital library. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet which helps catalog the Web in April 1996, which he sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with W. Daniel Hillis and Marvin Minsky. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as a lead engineer for six years. He serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive, the Television Archive, and the Internet Archive.

Senator Brian A. Joyce is serving his sixth term in the Massachusetts State Senate, representing the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth districts. Senator Joyce is the Senate Chair of the Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development as well as the Senate Vice Chair of the Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditure and State Assets, the Senate Vice Chair of the Revenue Committee, and the Senate Vice Chair of the Community Development and Small Business Committee. Prior to joining the Senate, Senator Joyce served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as the 7th Norfolk District State Representative for the towns of Milton and Randolph. Joyce was elected President of his legislative class, representing 32 new Senators and Representatives. A 1984 graduate of the Boston College School of Management and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School, where he was an editor of *the Law Review*, Senator Joyce is a practicing attorney who has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Brian Kyes was born and raised in the City of Chelsea and a graduate of the Chelsea Public School System where he received the Herbert Kupersmith Scholar-Athlete Scholarship. He was originally appointed as a Patrol Officer for the Chelsea Police Department on May 18th of 1987. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on October 21, 1994 and subsequently promoted to Lieutenant on November 22, 1996. As a Lieutenant he worked as the first full-time Internal Affairs Investigator for the department from 1998 until 2002. He was promoted to the rank of Captain on January 30, 2002 where he acted in the capacity of the Criminal Investigation Division Commander and Public Information Officer for over five years until being elevated as the Department’s Chief of Police. He was appointed as the City of Chelsea’s 20th Permanent Police Chief on November 1, 2007. Chief Kyes holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Framingham State College; a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from Anna Maria College; and a Juris Doctorate Degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He is a licensed Attorney at Law in this Commonwealth and a member of the Massachusetts Bar since June of 2003. He has also attended and completed a successful 10-week course of Law Enforcement Management at the FBI National Academy (Session No. 228) in Quantico, Virginia in 2007 and the FBI LEEDA Program (Session No. 61) in 2009. He is also a 1998 graduate of the 20th session of the Senior Management Institute for Police sponsored by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the Police Executive Research Forum. Chief Kyes is a certified Police Ethics Instructor for the Massachusetts Police Training Committee.

Brian Bell is a seasoned radio personality known for his 27-year tenure at WROR. Feedback? Questions? Reach out to Brian at brian_bell@wgbh.org.

Brian Benson is the co-producer of *HOWL,* and the producer of *All About Evil*. Photo courtesy of Bruce Gilbert/Provincetown International Film Festival.

For more than a decade, Professor Braman has been teaching in the philosophy department at Boston College. Before he received his PhD in philosophy, professor Braman pursued a variety of interests. He has lived all over the United States, from Wyoming to California, and has gone through many vocational phases. He has worked as an assistant sales manager, and his resume includes things as varied as time spent in military service with the Army Security Agency. During his time in the military, Braman took his first philosophy course through the University of Maryland. He remembers, "I really didn't like it all that much, and I swore I would never take another philosophy class at long as I lived." Now, it is this same professor who is the director of his own philosophy program, Perspectives, a series of courses that are offered for six credits each. Braman has also taught Capstone and Philosophy of the Person. All of the courses that professor Brian Braman teaches are inspirational, thought provoking, and, shall we say, philosophical. As the director of the Perspectives Program at Boston College, Braman has created this course to reflect some of his personal interests and passions.

Brian Card is a Software Engineer at Viasat who focuses on UI design and network management. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Union College and is working on a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.