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With a career spanning theater, television and film, Charles S. Dutton is one of the few actors to earn Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the same role. Best-known for his performance in the title role of the comedy-drama *Roc*, Dutton also starred in director Robert Altman's comedy-drama *Cookie's Fortune*, for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Some of Dutton's additional films include *Random Hearts*, co-starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas, *D-Tox*, opposite Sylvester Stallone, and *Gothika*, with Halle Berry and Robert Downey Jr. Dutton earned a B.A. from Towson State University and became active in Baltimore Theater.

Charles E. Cobb, Jr. is a distinguished journalist and former member of *National Geographic Magazine's* editorial staff. He currently is Senior Writer and Diplomatic Correspondent for AllAfrica.com, the leading online provider of news from and about Africa. From 1962-1967 he served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi. He began his journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for WHUR Radio in Washington, D.C. In 1976 he joined the staff of National Public Radio as a foreign affairs reporter, bringing to that network its first regular coverage of Africa. From 1985 to 1997, Cobb was a *National Geographic* staff member, traveling the globe to write stories on places from Eritrea to Russia's Kuril Islands. He is also the co-author, with civil rights organizer and educator Robert P. Moses, of *Radical Equations, Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project*.

Charles Eisenstein is the author of numerous essays and books, organized around the theme of the evolution of civilization's defining myths, stories, and sense-of-self. He served as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s speechwriter during his 2024 presidential campaign, where he developed the concept of a "transcendent center" -- not the midpoint between two poles, but a synthesis incorporating unconscious agreements and values shared by both sides. He is an advocate for peace and healing in politics, ecology, and world affairs.

Charles Euchner is the author or editor of eight books on politics and sports, including *Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them* (1993), *Extraordinary Politics: How Protest and Dissent Are Changing American Democracy* (1996), *Urban Policy Reconsidered: Dialogues About the Problems and Prospects of American Cities* (coauthored with Stephen McGovern, 2003), *The Last Nine Innings* (2006), and *Little League, Big Dreams* (2006). He is now working on a book about the civil right movement and a guide to writing nonfiction narrative and analysis. He also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines. He was the founding executive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard University and once directed the comprehensive planning process for the city of Boston.

Charles Ferguson is the founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc., and director and producer of No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq (2007) and Inside Job (2010), the story behind the Great Recession which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Ferguson is also a software entrepreneur, writer and authority in technology policy. A graduate of Lowell High School, he earned a BA in mathematics from the UC Berkeley and a PhD in political science from MIT. Ferguson conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms.

Educated at Princeton, Oxford and Columbia Law School, Charles Fried, the Beneficial Professor of Law, has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1961. He was Solicitor General of the United States, 1985-89, and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1995-99. His scholarly and teaching interests have been moved by the connection between normative theory and the concrete institutions of public and private law. During his career at Harvard he has taught Criminal Law, Commercial Law, Roman Law, Torts, Contracts, Labor Law, Constitutional Law and Federal Courts, Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy. The author of many books and articles, his Anatomy of Values (1970), Right and Wrong (1978), and Modern Liberty (2006) develop themes in moral and political philosophy with applications to law. Contract as Promise (1980), Making Tort Law (2003, with David Rosenberg) and Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court (2004) are fundamental inquiries into broad legal institutions. Order & Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution (1991) discusses major themes developed in Fried's time as Solicitor General. In recent years Fried has taught Constitutional Law and Contracts. During his time as a teacher he has also argued a number of major cases in state and federal courts, most notably Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, in which the Supreme Court established the standards for the use of expert and scientific evidence in federal courts. [Source: http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=21]

Charles Fuller is an American playwright best known for A Soldier's Play for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 1958, after attending Villanova University for only two years, Fuller joined the army as a petroleum laboratory technician. Though stationed in Japan and Korea for four years total, he does not discuss much of his overseas experience. However, the impact of his experience can clearly be seen in some of his best known plays about Army life. Following his service, Fuller returned to Philadelphia, where he worked as a housing inspector in the Ludlow Section. It was during this time that Fuller received insight into social breakdown and moral desperation of people living in poverty.

From February, 1976, to January, 1977, Mr. Gibson was a White House correspondent for ABC News. During this time, he covered Gerald Ford's 1976 Presidential campaign. Mr. Gibson came to ABC News in May, 1975, from a syndicated news service, Television News, Inc. His first job in broadcasting was Washington producer for RKO Network in 1966. The National Endowment for the Humanities named Mr. Gibson a National Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in 1973, and he has served as a board member of the Michigan Journalism Fellows since 1988. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he was news director for the University radio station, WPRB-FM. Mr. Gibson was honored with the 1992 John Maclean Fellowship, awarded to Princeton University alumni "who have made a major contribution to American society." Mr. Gibson, a native of Evanston, Illinois, grew up in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Arlene, a school headmistress, reside in New Jersey. They have two daughters.

Charles H. Battle has served as a key figure in the Olympic Movement for the past 20 years. . He served as Executive Vice President of the Atlanta Organizing Committee and took a leave of absence from law to travel around the world lobbying members of the International Olympic Committee and attending various Olympic meetings to promote Atlanta's candidacy. He joined The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) and served as its Managing Director for International Relations. Mr. Battle was awarded the Olympic Order by the International Olympic Committee for his outstanding contributions to the Olympic Movement. He presently serves as Senior International Advisor for the Chicago 2016 Bid Committee. In 1997 Mr. Battle became President of Central Atlanta Progress and in 1999, became Executive Director of both the WestPoint Stevens Foundation, a corporate foundation and the Holcombe and Nancy Green Foundation, a private foundation. Mr. Battle received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964 and his J.D. with highest honors from Emory University School of Law in 1970. He remains active with both schools through many roles and was honored with Emory Law Schools Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.

Charles Harvey is internationally recognized for outstanding research in multiple areas of the field of environmental engineering. He has received numerous awards and has appeared in PBS (Frontline) and BBC productions. He is a Fellow of both the American Geological Society the American Geophysical Union.

Charles Haugland is a literary associate for the Huntington Theatre.

Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum in Washington, DC. He writes and speaks extensively on religious liberty and religion in American public life. Haynes is best known for his work on First Amendment conflicts in public schools. Over the past two decades, he has been the principal organizer and drafter of consensus guidelines on religious liberty in schools, endorsed by a broad range of religious, civil liberties, and educational organizations. He is author or co-author of six books, including *First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America* and *Finding Common Ground: A First Amendment Guide to Religion and Public Schools*. His column, “Inside the First Amendment,” appears in more than 200 newspapers nationwide. Widely quoted in news magazines and major newspapers, Haynes is also a frequent guest on television and radio. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Emory University Medal in 2005 and the First Freedom Award from the Council for America's First Freedom in 2008. Haynes holds a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate from Emory University.

Charles Hill is a career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He also serves as the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, senior lecturer in international studies, and senior lecturer in humanities at Yale University. Hill has been a senior adviser to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Among Hill's awards are the Superior Honor Award from the Department of State in 1973 and 1981; the Distinguished Honor Award in 1978; the Presidential Meritorious Service Award in 1986; the Presidential Distinguished Service Award in 1987 and 1989; and the Secretary of State's Medal in 1989.

Charles Ogletree is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the law school. He is the author of the critically acclaimed *All Deliberate Speed*, and has received numerous awards and honors, including being named one of the 100+ Most Influential Black Americans by Ebony Magazine. In the immediate aftermath of the Crowley-Gates incident, Ogletree acted not only as counsel to Professor Gates but continues to act as advisor on police behavior to both Harvard University and the City of Cambridge. He was a senior advisor to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.