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After 27 years working at the Waikiki Aquarium, Carlson joined the Georgia Aquarium and was part of the original team that designed the Aquarium. Carlson is an avid SCUBA diver, underwater photographer and videographer. He has published several scientific articles on numerous topics including descriptions of new species of reef fishes, telemetry work on chambered nautilus and culture methods for corals in aquariums. Carlson is also co-author of “Bringing the Ocean to Atlanta: The Creation of the Georgia Aquarium,” which contains hundreds of beautiful photographs and details the incredible journey from Bernie Marcus’ vision to the reality of the world’s largest aquarium.

Bruce Cunningham has been a serious student of shamanic practice for over 15 years. A shaman is one who has been called by spirit, engaged the training and developed the skill to step between the worlds of the known and the unknown for the benefit of themselves, their community and their fellow man. He is an author and has a private energetic healing practice in Georgia.

Bruce Feiler is the *New York Times * best-selling author of seven books, an award-winning journalist, and the writer-presenter of the PBS miniseries *Walking the Bible*. He has traveled to more than 60 countries on five continents, immersing himself in different cultures. Born in Savannah, GA, he lives in New York with wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their twin daughters.

Bruce Bodaken is chairman, president and CEO of Blue Shield of California, a 3.3 million member not-for-profit health plan that serves the commercial, individual and government markets in California. A native of Iowa, Mr. Bodaken doesn't fit the typical profile of a health plan CEO. He earned a masters degree and taught philosophy at the college level before embarking on a career in health care. During Mr. Bodaken's eight-year tenure as CEO, Blue Shield has been among the fastest growing health plans in California. Membership and revenues have more than doubled and the company won two large government contracts covering California state employees and U.S. military families enrolled in the TRICARE program. Passionate about his company's not-for-profit mission, in 2002 Mr. Bodaken became the first health plan CEO to offer a specific proposal for universal healthcare coverage. His plan for universal coverage based on shared responsibility is similar to President-elect Obama's current proposal. He also transformed the Blue Shield of California Foundation into one of the state's largest healthcare grantmakers, with nearly $100 million in donations in the past three years. In addition to his work at Blue Shield, Mr. Bodaken serves on numerous professional and civic boards. He is a director of the California Business Roundtable, WageWorks, the University of California, Berkeley's Health Services Management Program, and Youth Tennis Advantage (serving inner-city youth). He is co-author of The Managerial Moment of Truth, published by Simon & Schuster (Free Press) in 2006.

Bruce Gil is a former digital reporter for FRONTLINE. He originally joined FRONTLINE in 2022 as a Tow Journalism Fellow.

Bruce Schulman is the author of *From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980*; *Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism*; and *The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics*. In 1989-90 he was director of the History Project in California, a joint effort of the University of California and the California State Department of Education to improve history education in the public schools. In 1993, as associate professor at UCLA, Schulman received the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award and the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. From 1997 to 2002 he was director of the American and New England Studies Program at Boston University.

**Dr. Cohen** is the Robertson-Steele Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Program for Neuropsychiatry Research at McLean Hospital. President emeritus of McLean. He leads a multidisciplinary research program on the causes of psychiatric disorders, with the goal of developing new, more effective, and better tolerated treatments. He and his colleagues employ pharmacologic, brain imaging, epidemiologic, genomic and cell model approaches to study schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in particular. Collaborating investigators work at McLean and at the Broad Institute, Harvard University, MIT and international sites. Dr. Cohen has directed clinical and laboratory research projects at McLean for over 35 years. He is the founding director of the McLean Brain Imaging Center, and president and psychiatrist in chief emeritus at McLean Hospital, having led McLean from 1997 through 2005. Dr. Cohen was named Psychiatrist of the Year by National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts in 2005 and 2010. He has over 400 peer reviewed published manuscripts and book chapters describing the results of his work.

Bruce Merrill retired from the Cronkite School in May 2008 after 35 years of teaching. He continues to conduct the Cronkite/Eight Poll, a statewide monthly survey of Arizona voters. Merrill joined the ASU faculty in 1971, but when the journalism-telecommunication faculty was expanded in 1988, Merrill was sought out because of his reputation as a researcher in the areas of political behavior and political media communications. Merrill’s first major assignment in fall 1988 was to establish a Media Research Program in the Cronkite School. Under Merrill’s direction the School launched the Cactus State Poll in conjunction with KAET-TV in 1990. The Media Research Program is used to conduct public opinion polls and to train students in the design and interpretation of the polls. Merrill has overseen more than 500 surveys during the past decade and has served as a consultant to scores of newspapers, television stations and corporations. The surveys have focused on a variety of issues as well as marketing and advertising strategies. Results have been disseminated widely by major national and international newspapers and electronic media outlets. Merrill taught courses in public opinion, political communication and quantitative research methodology with an emphasis on survey research. Merrill’s undergraduate major was mathematics and his master’s in political science. His doctorate in political behavior is from the University of Michigan where he trained at the Institute for Social Research.

Bruce Rich is an attorney who has published extensively on the environment in developing countries and development in general. He is the author of a major critique and history of the World Bank, Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development, (Beacon Press) and was awarded the United Nations Global 500 Award for environmental achievement for his research and advocacy concerning multilateral development banks. He worked for two and a half decades as an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund, and currently is advising the Sierra Club on a prospective program on international finance and climate. He has also worked for a variety of international agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations Environment Program, the World Resources Institute, and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the World Bank, and has testified in numerous Congressional hearings on U.S. participation in international financial institutions. He has written numerous articles and op-eds in publications such as *The Nation*, *The Financial Times*, *The Ecologist*, and *Environmental Forum*, the policy journal of the Environmental Law Institute in Washington. His most recent book is *To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India* (Beacon Press, April 2010), with a forward by Amartya Sen and an afterword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His professional focus on finance and ethics, as well as numerous visits to South Asia, helped inspire the writing of *To Uphold the World*. He is currently researching and writing a revised, updated, second edition of *Mortgaging the Earth*, to be published by Beacon Press in 2011. Rich is an honors graduate of Yale College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Photo courtesy of T. Charles Erickson.

**Bruce Schneier** is a world-renowned security technologist and the best-selling author of thirteen books. He speaks and writes regularly for major media venues, and his newsletter and blog reach over 250,000 people worldwide. Photo of Bruce Schneier by Per Ervland

Bruce T. Martin is an American fine art photographer who uses photography to document the world, explore perceptions, and question our viewpoints. After graduating from Syracuse University in 1977, he began working as a Historical Preservation photographer, using photography to help put endangered buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. His photographs are in a number of private and public collections and have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Central America. Today, along with exhibiting his fine art photography projects, he is an architectural photographer, making photographs for the nation's foremost architects, designers, and publications.

Bruce Twickler is President of Docema, LLC, the film company that produced the ground-breaking documentary *Damrell's Fire* (2006) for PBS and is currently producing *Broadside, the Influence of Sea Power on History *(2009). Bruce graduated from MIT with a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering; was on the technical staffs of GenRad and MITRE Corp; and, he spent a dozen years in the consumer electronics industry, the last few as VP of Marketing for Pioneer Electronics. In the early personal computer market of the 1980s, he was President/CEO of Hayden Software and later, Shiva Corporation. In the late 1990s, his Internet company, Andover.Net, with over 50% of all Linux-related internet traffic, enjoyed one of the most successful initial public offerings of that era.