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John Abbate is a Melbourne-based artist, academic, professional researcher and web developer. He received a Ph. D. from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, where he currently teaches. One of Abbate's ongoing projects is the development of the Facebook social network Philosophers + Philosophy, which is dedicated to research, education and debate.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7716435055

Sarah Anderson is director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and coauthor of A Field Guide to the Global Economy. Anderson’s current work includes conducting research and writing on the impact of the international financial institutions and free trade and investment policies on inequality, poverty, environmental sustainability, and human rights. Anderson has written numerous studies, articles and books on global corporations and the social and environmental impacts of trade and investment liberalization.
http://www.ips-dc.org/staff/sarah

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a professor of philosophy at Princeton University, where he also holds an appointment in the University Center for Human Values. He has also taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke, and Harvard, and received his B.A. and Ph. D. degrees in the philosophy department at Cambridge. Appiah has published widely in African and African-American cultural studies and is the author of several books, including Thinking it Through, The Ethics of Identity, Experiments in Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, which won the 2007 Arthur Ross Award of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was born in London and raised in Ghana.
http://www.appiah.net/

Yochai Avrahami is a Tel Aviv-based artist. His work has most recently been exhibited at the 2008 Mistrust the Parks, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Layla (a collaboration between AAI and INGA Gallery) New York; OK VIDEO MILITIA, Jakarta, Indonesia; the Gallery of Contemporary Art (Gfzk), Leipzig, Germany; the 9th International Istanbul Biennial; and the 2008 Taipei Biennial.
http://yochaiavrahami.googlepages.com/

Amy Berk was born in Brooklyn in 1967. She received her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and her B.A. from Wesleyan University. She is a recipient of the Gerbode Purchase Award, and her work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum, the Center for the Arts, Museum of Folk and Craft Art, Southern Exposure, and scene/escena in San Francisco. She has written for Art in America, Art Issues, SPEAK, and Artweek. She co-directs and teaches in the Meridian Interns Program.
Berk's partner, Andy Cox, is a San Francisco-based artist, engineer, activist and founder of the Guerrilla art group, Together We Can Defeat Capitalism.
http://www.amyberk.com/start.htm
http://www.twcdc.com/

Bill Berkson is a poet and critic who lives in San Francisco and New York. His recent books include Gloria (with etchings by Alex Katz); Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently; The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings; What’s Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985, with Bernadette Mayer; Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006; Bill, a words-and-images collaboration with Colter Jacobsen, and Goods and Services. His Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems, will appear from Coffee House Press in Spring 2009. He was awarded the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Berkson

Morris Berman is a cultural historian and social critic. He received the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, and in 1992 was the first recipient of the annual Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, and several other books, including Dark Ages America and The Twilight of American Culture, which was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. In 2008 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.
http://morrisberman.blogspot.com/

Gregory Berns, M.D., Ph.D. is the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University, where he directs the Center for Neuropolicy. He is a Professor in the departments of Psychiatry, Economics, and the Goizueta Business School. He is a founding member of the Society for Neuroeconomics. The author of Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment and Iconoclast: What Neuroscience Reveals About How To Think Differently, Dr. Berns specializes in the use of brain imaging technologies to understand human motivation and decision-making.
http://www.ccnl.emory.edu/greg/

Michael Bérubé is a professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of six books, including Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities, What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and Bias in Higher Education, and Life as We Know it: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by Maureen Corrigan of NPR. Bérubé has written essays for American Quarterly, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Social Text, Modern Fiction Studies, The Minnesota Review, Harper's, the New Yorker, Dissent, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Nation, and the Boston Globe.
http://www.michaelberube.com/

Bennett Brier is a native Texan, currently living and working in Austin. He has worked for the U.S. Federal Government for over thirty years, first through VISTA, and currently at the Veterans Administration as a computer programmer. Bennett is also a songwriter and musician and has spent tireless hours over the years as a Union organizer. He holds a BA in political science from Austin College, Sherman, Texas.
http://www.bennettsongs.com/

Jessica Brier is a curator and writer based in San Francisco. Her recent curatorial projects include The 5th Anniversary Tournesol Award Exhibition at Headlands Center for the Arts, Self-Storage, Learning to Love You More at MU (Eindhoven), and Americana at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Brier has written for Curating Now, published by the California College of the Arts' Curatorial Practice program; Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert's Death and Taxes; www.stretcher.org; and Art on Paper. She received an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts and currently works at Headlands Center for the Arts and SFMOMA.
http://sites.cca.edu/curatingarchive/archives/000368.html

Richard Brody graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Comparative Literature. He started writing for The New Yorker in 1999; among his publications there are articles about the directors François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Samuel Fuller. Since 2005, he has been the movie listings editor at The New Yorker, where he writes film reviews and a DVD column. He is the author of Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, which was published by Metropolitan Books in 2008. He lives in New York.
http://www.cinemawithoutborders.com/news/139/ARTICLE/1582/2008-05-14.html

Sylvia Chase is an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than three decades of experience in network and public television. Her work has been honored with Peabody, duPont-Columbia, and Washington Press Club awards, among others. As a contributing correspondent to NOW, her investigative reporting was nominated for an Emmy Award. On the team that kicked off 20/20, Ms. Chase was a correspondent for ABC News PRIMETIME, hosted the ABC Radio News weekly PERSPECTIVE, and anchored the news on KRON-TV in San Francisco from 1985 to 1990, where she also reported and hosted multiple documentaries.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0153843/

Kyu Che is a San Francisco-based architect and artist. He has received international recognition for his projects, which range from high-end interiors to experimental art projects. Following his education in Biology and Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, he gained classical professional training as an architect. His works have been presented at New Langton Arts, Yale Architecture Gallery and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Publications include Zyzzyva, Surface, Mark (Frame) and Damn.
http://www.kyuche.com/home.html

Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published widely on globalization, cosmopolitanism and human rights. The author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation, Cheah is currently completing a book on the possibility of world literature in an era of financial globalization.
http://ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/cheah.html

Terri Cohn is a writer, curator, and art historian. A longtime contributing editor to Artweek, she is the author of hundreds of essays, interviews, reviews, and catalog essays. In 2005 Terri was interim MATRIX curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum, and presently works as an independent curator. She teaches in the Critical Studies, Exhibition and Museum Studies, and First Year programs at the San Francisco Art Institute. In Spring 2008, she researched and lectured in Oxford at the Social Sculpture Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University; and in London at Birkbeck College, University of London. Cohn is also a trustee of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program.
http://www.sfai.edu/People/Person.aspx?id=706&sectionID=2&navID=365

Jean Comaroff is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, and director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. She is also an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town. She has written extensively on the culture and history of South Africa, and on issues of colonialism, faith, medicine, law, and capitalism. Her most recent book, co-authored with John L. Comaroff, is Ethnicity, Inc., which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009.
http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_comaroff_jean.shtml

Rocío Con Hong is an artist of Chinese descent born in 1978 San José, Costa Rica. She holds a MFA from the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. Con has exhibited in Costa Rica and internationally at Galería de la Raza, San Francisco; Teorética, San José, Costa Rica; Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, and Cirkulationscentralen, Sweden. She was awarded a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Art Center and the Swedish Institute. Her most recent exhibition was in 2008 at the Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo Chapingo, Arte con Raíz en la Tierra, in Mexico.
http://www.imow.org/community/directory/user/index?IOUserId=5697

Binh Danh was born in Vietnam, two years after the close of the Vietnam war. In 1979, he and his family escaped the country on a boat, and were placed in a refugee camp in Malaysia. Eventually, the Danh family emigrated to the U.S. and settled in San Jose, California. The themes of mortality, memory, and spirituality became a lifelong inspiration for Danh, and a primary influence on his artistic development. Danh received his MFA from Stanford University in 2004 and lives and works in San Jose, California.
http://www.hainesgallery.com/artists/Danh_Binh/Danh_01.html

Keith Devlin is a co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University’s H-STAR Institute, a Consulting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network, and a Senior Researcher at CSLI. He is a World Economic Forum Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has written 28 books and over 80 published research articles. Recipient of the Pythagoras Prize, the Peano Prize, the Carl Sagan Award, and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award, Devlin is the Math Guy on National Public Radio.
http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/

Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and human rights activist. Born in Argentina in 1942, Dorfman’s family moved to the United States shortly after his birth, then settled in Chile in 1954. He attended and was a professor at the University of Chile before being forced into exile following the Chilean military coup of 1973. Since the 1990 restoration of his homeland, he now divides his time between Santiago and the United States. A professor at Duke University since 1985, Dorfman has written powerful fiction often dealing with the horrors of tyranny and the trials of exile. His many books include The Burning City; Widows; Mascara; Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey; My House is On Fire; Manifesto for Another World: Voices From Beyond the Dark; and Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations 1980-2004.
http://www.adorfman.duke.edu/

Adam Ellis is a senior environmental scientist specializing in the use of Geographic Information Systems for hazardous materials assessments and emergency response. Ellis lives in West Oakland, California. He received his Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Planning and Interpretation, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing from Humboldt State University in 1999.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/a45/119

Gabe Essoe is a writer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written several screenplays for film and television, and authored numerous books on the history of films, including biographies of Clark Gable and Cecil B. DeMille. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from the University of California Los Angeles in 1965.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0261440/

Jordan Essoe is a San Francisco-based artist and writer.
http://www.essoe.com/

Joshua Essoe is a restorer of books and other paper products who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joshua-Essoe/710232855

Kelley Miles Essoe is a writer and actor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has written screenplays for television and film, as well as numerous articles and columns for magazines and newspapers. She is currently preparing for an upcoming play which is slated to open in the San Francisco area in late 2009.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587171/

John Feffer is co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. He is the author of several books, including Living in Hope: People Challenging Globalization, Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11, and North Korea / South Korea U.S. Policy and the Korean Peninsula. A former associate editor of World Policy Journal and a recipient of the Herbert W. Scoville fellowship, Feffer has been a Writing Fellow at Provisions Library in D.C., a PanTech fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University, and has been a writer in residence at Blue Mountain Center and the Wurlitzer Foundation.
http://www.johnfeffer.com/

Richard M. Felder is a professor of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University. He is coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, a widely used text for the introductory chemical engineering course, and has authored or coauthored over 300 papers on engineering, chemical process engineering, and science education. He has presented hundreds of seminars, workshops, and short courses to industrial and research institutions and universities throughout the United States and abroad, and since 1991 he has co-directed the American Society for Engineering Education.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/

Stephanie Fitz-Gerald is currently pursuing a degree in biological science at San Francisco City College. She lives in West Oakland, California.

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert are collaborative artists who create primarily works of conceptually based performance art, and they have also produced physical works of art such as printmaking, drawing, video, and photography, yet always with a conceptual focus. Their artistic research is focused on Fluxus and early conceptual art specifically highlighting those areas where life and art intersect.
http://www.life-art.org/

William Fox is a writer, scholar, and poet who whose work explores human cognition transforms land into landscape. The author of eight books, and editor of several literary magazines and presses, he has exhibited text works in seven countries, served as the Associate Director of the Nevada Museum of Art, and then as the visual arts and architecture critic for the Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper. He was a visiting scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, has twice been a Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence, and has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His new book Aereality: Essays on the World from Above will be published in 2009.
http://www.wlfox.net/

Robert Frazier is a Professor of Philosophy, Cycling & Computing at Christ Church, Oxford University. The author of several articles, he received a PhD and MA in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a BA in Philosophy from Western Washington University. He has also taught at Northeastern University, Merrimack College, University of New Hampshire at Durham, Worcester State College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
http://kant1.chch.ox.ac.uk/rlfrazier

Ken Friedman is Professor and Dean of Design at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, where he works with theory construction and comparative research methodology for design while leading the work of the Faculty of Design. He is also aProfessor of Leadership and Strategic Design at the Norwegian School of management in Oslo and at Denmark’s Design School in Copenhagen, where he works on knowledge economy issues as well as philosophy and theory of design. He has published articles and books on management and organization, information science, and art. Friedman works at the intersection of design, management, and art, and was central to the international laboratory of designers, artists, and architects known as Fluxus.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degree_days/2007/Summer/Friedman.html

David Gamez received his PhD in the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems from the University of Essex in 2008, a MScIT from Queen Mary from the University of London in 2001, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Essex in 2001. His recent book What We Can Never Know explores the limits of philosophy and science through studies of perception, time, madness and knowledge.
http://www.davidgamez.eu/

Anthony Gonzalez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Florida. His primary fields of research are galaxy evolution and observational cosmology, and his research has included work to constrain the nature of dark matter. He was an undergraduate at Caltech, and obtained his Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz in 2000.
http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~anthony/

Mark Goulthorpe is an Associate Professor in Architectural Design at MIT. In 1991, Goulthorpe established the dECOi atelier to undertake a series of largely theoretical architectural competitions. These resulted in numerous accolades around the world, which quickly established a reputation for new possibilities in architecture and architectural praxis. Significantly, such work was presented under the rubric dECOi, which was intended to allow for possibility of collaborative practice, and which has latterly become essential to a digitally-networked creative enterprise. dECOi's portfolio ranges from pure design and artwork through interior design to architecture and urbanism. A book of dECOi’s Architecture is forthcoming from Hyx Publications/FRAC (Centre Pompidou).
http://architecture.mit.edu/people.php?type=faculty&id=57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0j7uoKMbY

Stathis Gourgouris recieved a PhD in Comparative Literature at UCLA in 1990. He has taught Comparative Literature at Princeton and Columbia, and has been Visiting Professor at Yale, the University of Michigan, and National Polytechnic in Athens. Gourgouris was a National Endowment of the Humanities recipient in 2003, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers University in 2000. Currently on the Board of Supervisors of the English Institute at Harvard, he has recently been elected President of the Modern Greek Studies Association. An author and poet, he has published several books, including Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece, and written numerous articles which have been published internationally.
http://www.complit.ucla.edu/Stathis_Gourgouris.html

Kathy Graddy is an Oakland-based artist, activist, and founder of Graddy Graphic Design. Graddy is currently a Masters degree candidate at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University.
http://www.graddydesign.com/

Michael Greenstone is a Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, non-profit research organization, and a member of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of EPA's Science Advisory Board. Greenstone’s research is focused on the consequences of government regulation. He has extensively studied the Clean Air Acts and is also engaged in a project to estimate the benefits of the Superfund program that initiates remedial clean-ups of hazardous waste sites. Greenstone received a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics from Swarthmore College.
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/mgreenst/

Rodrigo Santiago Hernández is a 31 year old activist, writer, and photographer who has spent the last fourteen years working to bring relief and attention to the plight of indigenous workers in maquiladoras. He co-authored the 2003 book Tehuacán: del calzón de manta a los blue jeans (Tehuacan: Blue Jeans, Blue Waters and Worker Rights), a report on the effects of free trade and the restructuring jean industry on workers, indigenous communities and the environment in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico. He was also recently awarded a special mention for a short film script about indigenous workers.
http://es.maquilasolidarity.org/es/node/148
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19817580@N00/3121853294/

Jerry Hiler is an independent filmmaker living in San Francisco. His numerous films include Gladly Given, Spring Forward, and Target Rock. He is currently working on a documentary film about the rise of the Louisville Orchestra, slated to premiere in September 2009.
http://www.leoweekly.com/news-features/major-stories/features/performance-enhancement

Justin Hoover is a Bay Area born artist, gallerist, and nonprofit manager. He is currently completing his Masters of Public Administration degree in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and is simultaneously the financial chairman on the board of directors for a local arts-based education nonprofit called ArtSeed. He has worked with many other education-based organizations throughout the world ranging from a school for Buddhist Nuns in Nepal to multiple youth arts and education programs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the director of the Garage Biennale, in San Francisco.
http://www.justinhoover.com/

Derrick Jensen is an activist, author, small farmer, bee-keeper, teacher, and philosopher whose speaking engagements in recent years have packed university auditoriums, conferences and bookstores nationwide. His acclaimed book, A Language Older Than Words, has been said to accomplish the rare feat of both breaking and mending the reader’s heart, as well as energizing the mind. Jenson was one of two finalists for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, which cited his book The Culture of Make Believe as a passionate and provocative meditation on the nexus of racism, genocide, environmental destruction, and corporate malfeasance, where civilization meets its discontents.
http://www.derrickjensen.org/

David Joselit has worked as scholar and critic on pivotal moments in modern art. His latest book, Feedback: Television Against Democracy addresses television as a closed circuit that video artists and media activists have broken into in a variety of ways since the 1960s. Joselit’s first book, Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941, positions Duchamp's art a waning industrial world and the emergence of consumer culture. American Art Since 1945 is a synthetic survey that grows out of his years as a curator at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston during the 1980s, and as a critic for such publications as Artforum and Art in America.
http://arthistory.yale.edu/faculty/faculty/faculty_joselit.html

Richard Kamler is an artist, activist, curator, and educator. In 1976 he exhibited his first major installation, Out of Holocaust, and since then his works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in a wide range of venues. Kamler is currently an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of San Francisco where he directs the Artist as Citizen program, and he also hosts a radio show, ArtTalk. Kamler received a B.A. in Architecture in 1963 and an M.A. in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was an apprentice from 1963-1965 to Frederick Kiesler, the visionary painter, sculptor, and architect.
http://www.richardkamler.org/

Jonathon Keats is a conceptual artist, fabulist, and critic residing in San Francisco. Recently he choreographed the first ballet for honeybees at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Previous projects have included a prototype ouija voting booth at the Berkeley Art Museum, and an attempt to genetically engineer God in a petri dish in collaboration with University of California scientists. Keats is the art critic for San Francisco Magazine, writes for both Artweek and Wired Magazines, has authored two novels, and has a collection of fables forthcoming from Random House. Graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1994, he was the recipient of Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon_Keats

Naomie Kremer is an American-Israeli artist who lives and works in the Bay Area. She received a BA from the University of Rochester, a Masters in Art History from Sussex University in Brighton, England, and in 1993 she received her MFA in painting and drawing from the California College of Art. Kremer taught painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, and has also held teaching positions at California State University, Hayward, CCA, and Pont-Avon School of Contemporary Art in Bretagne, France. She has been a guest lecturer at Oxford University, England and with Syracuse University's Study Abroad Program in Florence, Italy.
http://www.naomiekremer.com/

Richard Ling is a sociologist at the Telenor Research Institute located near Oslo, Norway, and a visiting professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has been the Pohs visiting professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan and holds an adjunct position in that department. He is the author of the soon to be published book: New Tech, New Ties: How mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion. He is also the author of The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society, a book on the social consequences of mobile telephony, and is co-editor of the book Mobile Communications: Renegotiation of the Social Sphere.
http://www.richardling.com/

Marcin Majda is a Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, researching two parallel projects in Bioanalytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry. Born in 1951, Marcin attended M. Sc. Warsaw University, and received his PhD at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1980. Amongst his appointments, Majda has been Research Associate at the University of Illinois, and Associate Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He held the distinguished Joel H. Hildebrand Chair in Chemistry from 1982-1984, and was the recipient of the College of Science Alumni Achievement Award at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2002.
http://chem.berkeley.edu/faculty/majda/index.html

Bruno Mauro founded the alternative art space Ampersand International Arts in San Francisco in 1999. He studied art history and art collections management and has worked for private arts collections, as well as with the SFMOMA and the Oakland Museum collections. Mauro has curated and coordinated more than 50 exhibitions in California and abroad; collaborating with institutions in Thailand, the Philippines, France, Iceland, China, and Laos. Mauro is on the Board of Directors of Southern Exposure, as well as a Member of the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He lives between San Francisco and Paris.
http://www.ampersandintlarts.com/

Tara McDowell is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on American and European art, film, and theory from 1945-present. She is also an assistant curator at SFMOMA. McDowell assisted with a number of major SFMOMA exhibitions. She received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MA in Art History from Williams College, with a focus on art of the 1960s and 70s and critical theory. In 2004, McDowell received a prestigious Fund for Arts Research Grant from the American Center Foundation to research time and labor in contemporary art. She has written art criticism for both Artweek and Artforum.com.
http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/wattis_institute_at_cca/how_to_build_a_universe_that_d_1.html

Christina McPhee is a San Francisco-based artist. She works with data landscapes and assemblage, interpreting large scale technological installations, often in remote areas. She creates topologic site assemblages in layered baroque suites involving onsite photographs, video, drawing, and interactive new media. She lives with her partner, architect Terry Hargrave in the central coast area of California. Her work is represented by Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.
http://www.christinamcphee.net/

Gabe Meline is the Associate Editor of the North Bay Bohemian. He has been a band member of Ground Round, Tilt, Mr. T Experience, and involved with many other bands and music projects. Meline currently plays in Santiago and lives in Santa Rosa. He self-published two zines in the early 1990s: Boy, Does High School Ever Suck and Positively 4th Street.
http://www.bohemian.com/

Chuck Mobley is a curator at San Francisco Camerawork and also the editor of Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, a magazine devoted to contemporary issues in the photographic arts.
http://www.sfcamerawork.org/

András Nagy lives and works in Romania.

Antal Nagy lives and works in Romania.

Daniel Nagy lives and works in Romania.

Ferencz Nagy lives and works in Romania.

Gyorgy Nagy lives and works in Romania.

István Nagy lives and works in Romania.

János Nagy lives and works in Romania.

Lajos Nagy lives and works in Romania.

Mariska Nagy lives and works in Romania.

Zsigmond Nagy lives and works in Romania.

Anna Novakov is a tenured Associate Professor of Art History at Saint Mary’s College of California. She studied art history and literature at the University of California Berkeley and holds a doctorate from New York University in Art History and Art Education. She has authored many articles and editor of Veiled Histories: The Body, Place and Public Art, Carnal Pleasures: Desire, Contemporary Art and Public Space, and the forthcoming Good Housekeeping: The Artistic Legacy of Le Corbusier’s machine a habiter.
http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/scholar_novakov.html

Gay Outlaw has been making sculpture since the early 90’s, when she became known for her temporary works made of various types of pastry, including a public sculpture at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco made of fruitcake. She received SFMOMA’s Seca Art Award in 1998 and has exhibited her work on the West Coast and in New York. She lives and works in San Francisco.
http://www.gayoutlaw.com/

Marcus Rediker is a historian, writer, teacher, and activist. Born in Kentucky in 1951, Rediker graduated with a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976. He did his graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in history. He is the author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Villains of All Nations, and The Slave Ship: A Human History.
http://www.marcusrediker.com/

Rob Reich is a Professor of Political Theory at Stanford University, Associate Professor of Political Science, Courtesy Professor in the School of Education, Director of the Program on Ethics in Society, Co-Director for the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, and Co-Director of the Stanford Political Theory Workshop. He received his PhD in Philosophy of Education and a M.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University.
http://www.stanford.edu/~reich/

Laura Rival is a Lecturer in Anthropology and Development at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include issues in Amerindian conceptualizations of nature and society, historical ecology, the impact of national development policies on indigenous peoples, learning and knowledge acquisition, Latin American identity politics; and the role of anthropology in the new science of sustainability. She has also taught in the Departments of Anthropology of the London School of Economics, Manchester University, and Kent University. She is a regular contributor to the Masters Programme in Social Anthropology at FLACSO, Ecuador.
http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/staff/academic/rival/

Miri Shonfeld obtained her bachelor's and Master's degree in Zoology at Tel-Aviv University, and received her Doctorate in computing technology in education from Nova Southeastern University, Florida. She is currently the head of ICT at Kibbutzim College of Education in Israel and the head of the Center for Technology and Multiculturalism. Shonfeld teaches Science Education and Information and Communications Technology.
http://smkb.academia.edu/MiriShonfeld

Jessica Silverman is director and curator of Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. Founded in 2006, Silverman Gallery represents and collaborates closely with emerging San Francisco and international artists. Silverman received her MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts, and has taken part in a Curatorial Residency at the Frankfurter Kunstverein.
http://www.silverman-gallery.com/

Ilana Simons is a professor of writing and literature at The New School in New York and author of A Life of One’s Own: A Guide to Better Living through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf. She received a PhD in English from New York University, a MA in English from University of Sussex, a MA in Psychology from New School University, and a BA magna cum laude in English and American Literature at Brown University.
http://webspace.newschool.edu/~simonsi/Welcome.html

Elin O’Hara Slavick is an artist and professor of studio art, theory, and practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaching onceptual and experimental photography, collaborative visual projects, drawing, mixed media and body imaging. Slavick received her MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992, and her BA in poetry, photography and art history from Sarah Lawrence College in 1988.
http://www.unc.edu/~eoslavic/

Richard Cándida Smith is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches U.S. intellectual and cultural history in their international contexts and is director of the Regional Oral History Office on campus. He is the author of Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California and Mallarmé's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience. Smith’s latest book, The Modern Moves West: Dilemmas of Democratic Culture in California, will be appearing this fall.
http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Smith/

Shawn Smith is the co-founder of Education Generation, and co-founder and President of Global Agents for Change, an organization seeking sustainable solutions to global poverty while inspiring youth to create a better world. Smith sits on the board as Vice-President for InnovativeCommunities.org, and also acts as a strategic and communications consultant. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University and resides in Vancouver.
http://www.educationgeneration.org/about/team

Malina Stefanovska is a professor of French and Francophone studies at UCLA. She received a PhD from The John Hopkins University, a M.A. from the University of Oregon, and a B.A. from the Université de Grenoble. Stefanovska is the author of numerous articles and the book Saint-Simon, un historien dans les marges.
http://www.french.ucla.edu/people/stefanovska.htm

Anna Stubblefield is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and an affiliate member of the Afro-American studies department and the Rutgers Graduate Program in American Studies. She earned her PhD from the department of philosophy at Rutgers-New Brunswick and was a professor at Temple University for four years. Her books include Ethics Along the Color Line, Reparations and Collective Memory, and Meditations on Post-Supremacist Philosophy. Stubblefield was a fellow of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers-New Brunswick, and she also serves on the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~philos1/Faculty/Anna.html

Canelle Tanc and Vincent Frédéric are Paris-based artists, and directors of the alternative art space Immanence. Tanc is a recipient of grants from the Yoshii, the Bleustein-Blanchet, and the Perrier-Jouet Foundations. She was educated at Sorbonne University and Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Frédéric was educated at the Sorbonne University and Ecole Etienne, and he is a residency laureate of the VTM in Berlin.
http://www.cannelletanc.eu/cannelle_tanc.html

Marcia Tanner is an independent curator and writer based in Berkeley, California. Former director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Tanner most recently organized We Interrupt Your Program at Mills College Art Museum in 2008. Her previous exhibitions also include Brides of Frankenstein at the San Jose Museum of Art, We Look and See, Berkeley Art Museum; Mi Casa es Su Casa, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; and Aural Sex and Lineaments of Gratified Desire, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. She is the author of numerous reviews, articles, and catalogue essays for publications including Flash Art, ArtNews, and The San Francisco Chronicle.
http://atc.berkeley.edu/bio/Marcia_Tanner/

Ezri Tarazi is an industrial designer, theoretician, and educator, and is the head of the industrial design department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. He started his studio, Studio Tarazi, in 1996. From 1998 to 2001 he was a partner at IDEO Israel, an affiliated office of the famous Palo Alto based design company. He has won several international awards, notably for his Time Capsule project for the National History Museum in New York along with New York Time Magazine in 2000.
http://www.tarazistudio.com/

Len and Libby Traubman co-founded the 14-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group on the San Francisco Peninsula. Libby Traubman is a retired clinical social worker, a Trustee of the Foundation for Global Community, and in 1994 was inducted into the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame. Lionel Traubman was regional alumni President of Alpha Omega Jewish Dental fraternity, and received the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of California School of Dentistry, for whom he gave the 2006 Commencement Address. He wrote and published The Oreckovsky Family: From Russia To America.
http://traubman.igc.org/

Anuradha Vikram is a curator and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has written for numerous publications including Artillery, Shotgun Review, and Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts. Vikram was the Exhibitions Director at the Richmond Art Center before becoming the Program Director at Headlands Center for the Arts. She was Associate Producer of the ISEA2006 Symposium and the concurrent Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, co-curating C4F3: The Cafe for the Interactive City at the San Jose Museum of Art. She received an M.A. in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, in 2005, and a B.S. in Studio Art from New York University.
http://www.curativeprojects.net/

David S. Wilcove is professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, and public affairs at Princeton University. One of the world’s leading experts on endangered species, he is the author of The Condor’s Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America, No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations, and numerous scientific and popular articles on wildlife conservation. His other recent projects include studies of the impact of oil-palm agriculture on biodiversity in Southeast Asia, an assessment of ongoing efforts to preserve the endemic plants and animals of the Florida scrub ecosystem, and studies of the impact of climate change on invasive weeds in the United States.
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/pei/pdf/facultybios/wilcove.pdf

Gosia Wojas is the Director of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany. The gallery’s artists have recently been included in the 2008 California Biennial, the 2008 Prospect 1. New Orleans International Biennial, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. The gallery has participated in the 2008 Armory Show in New York and 2008 ArtBasel Miami Beach Art Fair.
http://www.vielmetter.com/

Caveh Zahedi is a San Francisco-based independent filmmaker. He began making films while studying philosophy at Yale University. At UCLA he began collaborating with Greg Watkins. Together, they co-directed the film A Little Stiff, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, won widespread critical acclaim, and aired on both German television and the Sundance Channel. Zahedi’s other films include In the Bathtub of the World, I Am A Sex Addict, and I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore, which won the Critics’ Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
http://www.cavehzahedi.com/