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Adam Tomasek is the Director for the World Wildlife Fund's Borneo & Sumatra Program. He is leading the development of a conservation blueprint with WWF's offices in Indonesia and Malaysia, including the design of local-to-global conservation strategies for the highly threatened forests on both islands. Adam joined WWF in 2001 and has led programs in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Madagascar, and contributed to projects in ten other countries. He has traversed the tropics, from South America to Africa to Asia and the Pacific, combining his expertise and passion in protected areas management and community-based conservation to develop lasting solutions. Adam received a BS from the University of Michigan and a MS from Humboldt State University. He got his start in conservation as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay, where he also met his wife Toni. They have two children, Alexandre and Amelie, who have already seen much of the world through travels with their globe-trotting parents. In his spare time, Adam is an Adjunct Professor at American University.

Horace Julian Bond was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in January 1940. His father, Dr. Horace Mann Bond, was the first president of Fort Valley State College, and in 1945 became the first black president of the country's oldest black private college, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. The Bond family lived at Lincoln until 1957, when Dr. Bond became dean of the School of Education at Atlanta University. His mother, Julia Washington Bond, retired in her 90s after working for decades as a librarian. Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a coeducational Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1957, and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta that same year. While still a student, Bond was a founder of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), a student civil rights organization that helped win integration of Atlanta's movie theaters, lunch counters, and parks. Bond was also one of several hundred students from across the South who helped to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He later became SNCC's communications director, responsible for its printing and publicity departments and editing the SNCC newsletter, The Student Voice. Bond also worked in voter registration drives in the rural South. Bond left Morehouse one semester short of graduation in 1961 to join the staff of a new protest newspaper, The Atlanta Inquirer. He later became the paper's managing editor. Bond returned to Morehouse in 1971 and graduated with a B.A. in English. Turning his attentions to the political sphere, Bond was first elected in 1965 to a one year term in the Georgia House of Representatives. Members of the House voted not to seat him because of his outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam. Bond was elected two more times before the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Georgia House had violated Bond's rights in refusing him his seat. During his service in the Georgia General Assembly, Bond was sponsor or co sponsor of more than 60 bills that became law, and he organized the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, then the largest such group in the nation. He was elected to the Georgia Senate in 1974. When he left the state senate in January 1987, Bond had been elected to public office more times than any other black Georgian, living or dead, ending his tenure only when an unsuccessful congressional race in 1986 prevented him from seeking re election to the Senate. In 1968, Bond was co chairman of the Georgia Loyal National Delegation to the Democratic Convention. The Loyalists, an insurgent group, were successful in unseating the hand picked regulars. Bond was nominated for Vice President of the United States, the first black person to be so nominated by a major political party, though he withdrew his name because he was too young to serve. Bond holds numerous honorary degrees and has served on the boards of many organizations working for social change. He is currently a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C., and a professor in the history department at the University of Virginia. In 1995, Bond was elected to his fourth term on the National Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Bond has served as chairman of the NAACP since his election in February 1998. A collection of Bond's essays has been published under the title A Time To Speak, A Time To Act. His poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times, American Negro Poetry, the Los Angeles Times, and several other national publications.

Erin Fuller, CAE, joined The Coulter Companies as a Senior Associate in 2002, and was named Vice President in 2006. Since joining The Coulter Companies, Fuller has focused her efforts as the executive director for the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Fuller has worked with NAWBO's 80 chapters and 8,000 members around the country on initiatives including grassroots advocacy, educational seminar development, and a comprehensive rebranding initiative. Through her work with The Coulter Consulting Group, Fuller has provided guidance on topics including association financial management, governance redesign, component relations and comprehensive marketing, branding and communication plans to organizations including the National Council of Jewish Women, the International Association of Continuing Education and Training, and the American Council on Renewable Energy. Prior to joining The Coulter Companies, Fuller served as the executive director of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) Research Foundation and as vice president of CAI's education department. During her tenure at CAI, Fuller led a groundbreaking national survey of homeowners and led a multi-year initiative with the State of Florida for homeowner education, leveraging the resources of several of CAI's 57 local chapters across the U.S. She has partnered on programs with organizations including: the Fannie Mae Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Merck Foundation. Fuller's previous employment includes positions with Andersen Consulting, the American Medical Student Association/Foundation, and American University. She has consulted for organizations including Dartmouth University's Koop Institute, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco, and the Children's Defense Fund. She has facilitated a number of workshops on survey and educational program design, and has authored a number of articles that have appeared in national and regional publications. Fuller received both her undergraduate and master of public administration degrees from American University in Washington, D.C., and also has obtained the certified association executive (CAE) designation from the American Society of Association Executives. She currently serves as the Vice President of the American University Alumni Association executive board, as well as on the Women Under Forty Political Action Committee (WUFPAC) advisory board. She served on the board of directors of the national Center for Association Leadership from 2003-2006, as well as the editorial board of the Journal of Association Leadership. Fuller was named one of Association Trends Leading Young Association Executives in 2000, and received a fellowship to study leadership at The Banff Centre in 2002 from the Canadian Bureau of Tourism. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and son.

Patrick Butler is senior vice president of The Washington Post Company, with responsibility for public policy, new business development, and special corporate projects. He is also president of Washington Post Company Productions, supervising the production of non-fiction television programming for PBS (including the Best Documentary Emmy-winning Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History) and cable networks. In the early 1990s, he chaired PCS Action, a consortium of companies (including the Post Company) that helped launch the digital wireless telecommunications industry. Before joining the Post Company, Butler was Washington vice president of Times Mirror, where he was a founder of the Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press. From 1982 to 1985, he was president of Patrick Butler and Company, a communications consulting firm whose clients included leaders of government, business and media. Previously, he had served as staff vice president of RCA Corporation and as director of corporate public relations for Bristol-Myers Company). In government service, Butler was a speechwriter for President Gerald R. Ford and special assistant to US Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr. of Tennessee. Butler was legislative director and chairman of the Impeachment Task Force for Congressman Lawrence J. Hogan of Maryland during the Nixon impeachment proceedings in 1974. He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities (1988-1994) and chairman of its Public Programs Committee. Butler is chairman of the Dean's Advisory Council of the American University School of Communication, chairman of the Maryland Public Television Foundation, and (as of September 2008) chairman of the corporate advisory board of SOME (So Others Might Eat). He is also a member of the boards of trustees of American University, the Foundation for the National Archives, the Pew Research Center, The Media Institute, the University of Tennessee College of Communication and Information, the National Endowment for Democracy's Center for International Media Assistance, the International Research and Exchange Program, and the Children's Charities Foundation. He was named a DC-CAPtain for his work in securing enactment of the DC College Access Act, under which the federal government pays the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition for District of Columbia students attending colleges nationwide. Butler began his career in 1966 as a reporter for the Chattanooga News - Free Press and then as City Hall reporter for The Chattanooga Post. He later served as assistant director of public information for the Appalachian Regional Commission and as press secretary and environmental policy advisor to Congressman Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell of North Carolina. Butler majored in political science at the University of Tennessee. He earned a Master of Arts degree (with distinction) in journalism and public affairs at American University, where he has taught graduate courses on The Press and Politics and on 21st Century Journalism. He studied finance and accounting at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he has been accepted as a Fellow in the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Fanta Aw is currently assistant vice president of campus life at American University. She was director of international student and scholar services at the university from 1998 to 2007. Aw has taught and lectured on international and intercultural topics and has served as a consultant to the Department of State, the Institute for International Education, the Academy for Educational Development, and the United Negro College Fund, among others.

Lyndell Grey: Dr. Grey is at the school daily from 3:00-6:00. She opens the doors, prepares the building, and visits with each child as he or she arrives. Dr. Grey has her doctorate in education and psychology and has taught at the university level as well as being the Vice President of the American University in Bulgaria. Her family has lived in the Lincoln area since 1888 when the Fruitvale School was established.

Robert Pastor has been the Vice President of International Affairs and a Professor of International Relations at American University since September 2002. Dr. Pastor leads AU's expanding international programs and activities. He has established and now directs the Center for Democracy and Election Management and the Center for North American Studies at AU. From 1985, Dr. Pastor was Professor of Political Science at Emory University and a Fellow and Founding Director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean, the Democracy Program, and the China Election Project. Dr. Pastor served as Director of Latin American Affairs on the National Security Council, was nominated to be Ambassador to Panama, and was the Senior Advisor to the Carter - Nunn - Powell Mission in 1994 to negotiate a restoration of constitutional government to Haiti. At The Carter Center, he organized the Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers, which monitored and mediated elections in more than twenty countries around the world. Since 1999, he has been a member of the Governing Board of Common Cause, a grass-roots group to improve democracy in the United States, and was also President of Common Cause Georgia from 1999-2002. He served as Special Advisor to the Carter-Ford National Commission on Election Reform and edited a volume comparing elections in the three countries of North America for the Election Law Journal. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University and is the author or editor of 15 books, including Democracy in the Americas.

Partner, Washington Office of Ropes & Gray LLP since 1981; chief counsel, Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure; general counsel, Antitrust Subcommittee and Senate Judiciary Committee; clerk, Judge John Minor Wisdom on the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; special assistant to the assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice; serves in the House of Delegates of the ABA; past chairman, ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section; served on the Board of Governors of the ABA; president, D.C. Public Library Foundation; teaches Lobbying and Legislative Process, the American University's Washington College of Law.

Daniel Abraham has led choral, orchestral, and musical theater ensembles in the Boston, Washington, and Toronto areas. The Washington Post has praised his performances as having "uncommon precision and exuberant vitality," being "bright, energetic, and lovingly shaped" and showing "keen insight and coherence." His work with The Bach Sinfonia is consistently cited for its excellence in programming and innovative educational approach. Dedicated to performance, scholarship, and education, Professor Abraham is Director of Music & Director of Choral Activities at American University where he conducts the American University Chorus, the American University Chamber Singers, and teaches courses in music history, music theory, and music appreciation courses ranging from The Music of Bach, Handel & the Late Baroque to A History of Rock-n-Roll. A frequent clinician, adjudicator, and festival jurist, he has led various festival ensembles, clinics, and masterclasses in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Ontario, Canada. During the spring of 2005, he was invited as Visiting Distinguished Professor of the Arts by American University in Cairo to rehearse and conduct performances of a chamber chorus formed jointly by AUC students, students of the Cairo Conservatoire of Music, members of the Cairo Opera House, and other civic choirs. While in Cairo, Professor Abraham provided lectures, directed master classes, and led clinics for various Egyptian professional and civic music organizations. Professor Abraham holds both a Masters in Conducting as well as Musicology from the University of Maryland and will defend his Ph.D. dissertation this fall. He was a conducting fellow at the 1997 Oregon Bach Festival where he worked and studied with the renowned Bach interpreter Helmuth Rilling, principally studied choral and orchestral conducting with Paul Traver (University of Maryland), Harold McSwain, and Christopher McGahan (University of Massachusetts), and received additional training with William Weinert (Eastman School of Music), and David Hoose (Boston University). His musicological studies were under the guidance of the late Howard Serwer and John Ogasapian, as well as Richard G. King, E. Eugene Helm, Rachel Wade, and Richard Wexler. Prior to teaching at American University he was on faculty at The George Washington University and was Director of the University of Maryland's Collegium Musicum. He has conducted performances at the Kennedy Center, The National Women's Museum of the Arts, and at the 2005 National Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Other notable engagements include the first modern performance of the 1776 French comic opera Fleur d'Epine by Marie Emmanuelle Bayon-Louis, period-instrument performances of Purcell's semi-opera The Indian Queen, featuring renowned soprano soloist Amanda Balestrieri and countertenor Jay White, and period-instrument performances of all six of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti for The Bach Sinfonia's Tenth Anniversary Season. Broadcast credits include choral preparation for the Kennedy Center Honors Gala (PBS), chorus master for the 2005 national broadcast of Christmas in Washington (TNT), as well as an appearance on the nationally syndicated PBS series History Detectives during its initial season in 2003. He has conducted various modern premieres of eighteenth-century works including the Washington area premiere of George Frideric Handel's recently rediscovered Gloria, period-instrument concerts of Handel's Alexander's Feast before the annual national meeting of the American Musicological Society, which also included the North American premiere complete performance of J.S. Bach's Alles mit Gott und nichts mit ohn' ihn, BWV 1127, just recently rediscovered in June 2005. His performances have been nationally broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, and he will release an international commercial recording of Handel's Alexander's Feast on the Dorian Records...

Sean McDonald is the Communications Director for CPBI and a student at American University's Washington College of Law, focusing on international law and conflict resolution. Sean has extensive media experience, both as a journalist for area and national publications and for the press office of a senior U.S. Senator. He has interned for the Institute of Multi-Track Diplomacy, and works closely with both the international Conflict Resolution and Alternative Dispute Resolution Law communities. He has worked on disaster relief projects in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Sean recently contributed to a community-based, post-Tsunami analysis in Sri Lanka for CPBI.

Phillip L. Brown is a Capital Renewal/Deferred Maintenance Project Manager for Facilities Management at American University. Mr. Brown is responsible for the Universitya s compliance with environmental concerns which includes but is not limited to asbestos, lead, mold and indoor air quality issues. He also plans, coordinates, and manages capital renewal and deferred maintenance projects throughout the campus. Phillip has been with American University for over eighteen years and has more than thirty years of experience in the area of facilities management.

Aaron Goldstein, a junior at American University, is studying Broadcast Journalism. He currently is still a full-time student at American University in DC. He is also interning at WMAL radio, covering local news. Aaron currently works as the news director of American Television, the student run TV station of AU. He also took advantage of AU's World Capitals Program, by studying in Jerusalem. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Goldstein is an avid sports fan, with the Red Sox and Patriots as his favorite teams. Goldstein also enjoys playing sports, such as Frisbee, basketball and baseball. After college he would like to pursue a career in either television or radio.

Abdallah Schleifer, Advisory Board Member, is professor emeritus of journalism at American University in Cairo, and a veteran journalist in the Middle East. Schleifer, a former NBC news bureau chief in Cairo, is currently serving as Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya news channel headquartered in Dubai.

Adam Louis Shrier, President of Global Development Opportunities, LLC, has been a business developer and management consultant to the energy and chemical industries since 1988. He has started-up and acquired firms in the energy, environment and chemical fields, and has arranged for international investments and technology transfers. As a strategic advisor, he has helped private and state-owned companies to formulate and implement long-term investment strategies and to streamline their organizational structure and business processes, and he has consulted to government agencies on planning, policy development and economic reform programs. The scope of his activities has been worldwide, but he has maintained a special interest in the emerging market economies, with projects and clients in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and China. Previously, Dr. Shrier spent 25 years at Exxon (now ExxonMobil) Corporation, in various commercial, technical and corporate positions, including management of international planning and policy activities. His earlier responsibilities spanned multiple functions, including corporate planning and government relations; international supply, transportation and trading; energy security and emergency preparedness; alternative energy; corporate ventures and new business development; and research and engineering. From 1983-88 he served on the Industry Advisory Board of the International Energy Agency. Dr. Shrier holds degrees in chemical engineering from Columbia University, MIT and Yale University, and a law degree from Fordham University. He has lectured at universities in the US, China and Czech Republic, and since 2000 he has been adjunct professor of international business at American University.

is co-founder of Docs In Progress and serves as Director of Programs and Services. She is an award winning filmmaker, educator and consultant, who has won numerous awards in both documentary and fiction films. In the last 15 years, Adele has produced, directed and edited several long-form documentaries and short feature films, among them The Power of Forgiveness , Cathedral Today, the docudrama Albert Schweitzer - Called to Africa, and Bonhoeffer, all of which aired nationally on PBS. Her award-winning films Land of Mennonites and Juana's Journey participated in more than 20 film festivals around the world. Adele is the owner of the production company Zeitgeist Media, where she is developing The Form of the P, a documentary feature about progressive music; and Toledo, a visual essay about Mexican painter Francisco Toledo. She also recently one a Telly Award for an interactive, online HD video production of a series of training videos for Oratorio Media and Presentation Training. In addition to teaching classes through Docs In Progress, Adele is also an Adjunct Professor at American University, where she teaches graduate-level Film and Video Production in the School of Communication. She also taught Film and Video Production at the National Center for the Arts in Mexico City for four years. Among the awards she has won as a filmmaker are TIVA-DC's Peer Award, the U.S. International Film and Video Festival Award, the Telly Award, the Gabriel Award, the Wilbur Award, and the Christopher Award. She has also served as a panelist for the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (Maryland), reviewing applications in the disciplines of writing, philosophy, history, and media arts. Originally from Germany, Adele holds a B.A. in Film and Video Production and an M.A. in Political Science.

Dr. Aftab Kazi is a Senior Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program. He is concurrently a Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Dr. Kazi was formerly a Specialist with the United States Department of Education (1987-95; retired). Prior to that, he was the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian and African Affairs (1988-94), now renamed as Journal of Third world Spectrum since 1995. In 1992, he was honored by the President's Council on Management Improvement and Public Employees Roundtable for distinguished public service and voluntary scholarly activities. Dr. Kazi's specialization is comparative and international politics, conflict resolution, international & development education and international & intercultural affairs. He focuses on Ethnicity and nationalism (esp. Sindhi/Pakistani ethnicity, Sindhi/Pakistani nationalism); foreign and security policy in and between the United States, Pakistan, Central Asia, and South Asia; geopolinomics, civil-military relations, nation and state building. He has worked on the history of Sindh and Pakistan in the context of the Indus Basin, and its relationship with Central Asia. in terms of education, he has been involved in the study of politics and education, non-formal and distance education, education policy & development administration and Federal grants management. Dr. Kazi holds a Bachelor of Commerce and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Sindh. He also holds an M.Ed. in International & Development Education; Advanced Graduate Certificates in Asian Studies and Arms Control & International Security Studies; and a degree of Doctor of Philosophy, International & Peace Studies (double concentration in international relations and international education) from the University of Pittsburgh.

Alan Duffy is currently a Health Educator at American University in Washington, DC. He has been conducting research and applied work in eating disorders prevention for the last four years. Alan has worked closely with Dr. Carolyn Becker on expansion of the Reflections program over the last two years. Alan helped to build a large campus program at Auburn University with the help of Dr. Annette Kluck, who assisted in training and oversight of the program. He assisted in expansion of the program to Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, and Delta Gamma chapters at Auburn. He also expanded the program to Tri Delta's Phi Theta chapter at Auburn, and worked with Pi Beta Phi Fraternity Headquarters to pilot the program with their Alabama Gamma chapter. Currently Alan is developing a campus model of the Reflections program at American University with the assistance of the Panhellenic Association. He is also conducting research on peer leader adaptation from presenting the Reflections program to presenting The Body Project. Alan received his BA from the University of Sussex, Brighton, England and his MS from Auburn University in Alabama. He is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders.

Alan Rosenblatt, a long time veteran in the field of Internet Politics, leads IAC. From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Rosenblatt created and taught one of the first university courses ever in the field of Internet Politics at George Mason University. In 2000, he helped to pioneer Internet media coverage of the presidential nominating conventions with Media Bureau Networks. From 2001 to 2003 he created and managed the first consulting practice devoted to Internet strategy for state and local issue advocacy at Stateside Associates. From 2003 to 2005 he was Director of Training Programs at e-advocates, one of the first Internet advocacy consulting firms in the nation. He has published many articles and is a frequent lecturer on Internet politics. As the Executive Director of the Internet Advocacy Center, he brings more than fifteen years of experience in the field of digital politics. Dr. Rosenblatt currently serves as Associate Director of Online Advocacy for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a member of the Board of Directors for e-Democracy.org, a contributor to the blog TechPresident.com, a contributing editor to Politics Online, a member of the Tools-Peer-Review Subcommittee at the New Organizing Institute, a member of the steering committee for the Progressive Communicators of DC (PCDC), a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, a member of the Advisory Board for DemocraticGAIN, and Washington Bureau Chief for Media Bureau Networks.

Alex Wohl, FLA's Director of Communications and Outreach, has an extensive background in public policy and communications, working across a variety of disciplines, including law, labor, journalism and education. He has been Director of Communications at the U.S. Department of Education, where he served first as a speechwriter for Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and Director of Public Affairs for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Wohl, an attorney, was selected to be a Judicial Fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court, where he wrote speeches for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and met with visiting foreign judges and dignitaries. He also has served as a law clerk for Judge Ralph B. Guy, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, worked as an attorney at the Washington, DC-based law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky and was the Supreme Court correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. Wohl is an adjunct professor at American University in the Department of Justice, Law and Society. He is the author of numerous articles on subjects including legal affairs, education, and entertainment. Wohl received a B.A. from Brandeis University and a J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University.

Coach Ryjik began fencing at age 8 in St. Petersburg, Russia. At 17 he earned a Master of Sport in Fencing of the USSR, the top prestigious certification in this sport. Coach Ryjik holds many championship titles: All Republic Champion, Army Champion, Leningrad Champion and National Youth Champion of the Soviet Union. Alexandre Ryjik has coached at Carnegie Mellon University. He is now Professor of Fencing at both American University and George Mason University.

Amy Shopkorn joined NSCS in 2003. While she originally hails from New York City, Amy lived in Maine and Boston prior to her arrival in Washington, D.C. and has worked in various aspects of non-profit management for the past seven years at Shackleton Schools, an expedition-based high school, The George Washington University, and now NSCS. Amy earned her Bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where she majored in Government and Environmental Studies and played rugby for four years. She also holds a Master's degree in Higher Education Administration from The George Washington University. In her spare time, Amy helps coach the women's rugby team at American University and spends time hiking the many nearby mountains and trails.

Anna K. Nelson is the Distinguished Historian in Residence at the American University. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Oklahoma. After additional graduate work at Ohio State University, she received her PhD from George Washington University. She has served on the SHAFR nominating committee and as chair of local arrangements for the 2001 meeting. She has published in both 19th century diplomacy and 20th century foreign policy. Primarily an author of articles and essays, her articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, Journal of Military History, Political Science Quarterly, Cuban Studies and Reviews in American History. Other essays can be found in edited books. In addition, she is the author of Secret Agents: Polk and the Pursuit of Peace with Mexico, and the editor of State Department Policy Planning Staff Papers, 1947-1949 (3 vols.) She is currently preparing a book on the influence of the national security process on foreign policy in the first three decades of the Cold War.

Ashraf Fouad is a composer, who teaches composition and theory at The American University in Cairo. He is a graduate of The Academy of Arts in Cairo, Egypt, and The Juilliard School of Music, New York, where he advanced to the level of DMA studies with David Diamond (1988-1991). At the Cairo Conservatory, he studied with Taha Nagy and Said Awad. At Juilliard, Fouad studied composition with Stanley Wolfe, Joseph Schwantner, and Bernard Rands. Among his works, which were premiered at Juilliard are: Sonata Concertante for Violin and Piano (Paul Hall) and String Quartet (Alice Tully Hall). A working musician all his life, Fouad has been performer, producer, researcher, teacher, lecturer, and composer. In 1994, he joined the faculty at The American University in Cairo as composer-in-residence. Since then, he has written Ithaca (cantata for orchestra, chorus and soloists), a commission celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the University.

In addition to being a participant to Project Auditors, Dr. Dodin is Professor of Management at American University in Cairo, Egypt, as well as being a Professor of Operations Management and Management Science at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management (AGSM) of University of California Riverside (UCR). As part of his duties, he is Director of the University of California Education Abroad Center (UCEAP) in Cairo. The UCEAP is a University of California (UC) run program to give UC students international experiences and education. The Cairo operation is offered in cooperation with the American University in Cairo. His position as Director involved managing the day to day operations of the UC Center. In the past he has been Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, AGSM & Manager of the AACSB Accreditation Project as well as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Chair of the two AGSM Departments.

One of the finest coaches in the nation, Barry Goldberg is in his 20th season as the head coach of the American University volleyball program. Responsible for the dramatic rise of the program, he has established the team as a domineering power in the Patriot League. The Eagles have been conference champions ten of the last eleven years. In addition to having captured NCAA tournament berths in nine of the last eleven years, he led his team to a 96-2 Patriot League record over the last seven years. A native of Pittsburgh , Pa. , Goldberg is a 1984 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in communication and rhetoric. He went on to receive his master's in Counseling Education in 1986 from Pittsburgh . A standout on the court, Goldberg was captain of the men's varsity volleyball team at Pittsburgh that finished with a national ranking of 13 th in 1983. From 1985-86, Goldberg was the assistant women's volleyball coach for his alma mater. In 1987, he came to Washington , DC as the coach of the Capital Volleyball Club where all of the players he coached secured scholarships at Division I institutions. In 1988, before being hired at American, Goldberg was the assistant coach at Georgetown University . The architect of a model program at American University , Goldberg has 474 career wins with a .727 winning percentage, which ranks him among the top-20 active collegiate coaches in the country. In 12 seasons in the Colonial Athletic Association, before AU joined the Patriot League, Goldberg coached 36 players to All-CAA teams, including 20 All-CAA First Team selections, two CAA Championships MVP accolades, and a CAA Rookie of the Year winner. Goldberg has also coached three GTE/Academic All-Americans and three American University Student-Athletes of the Year. Five of his student-athletes have been named Verizon District II Academic All-Americans. He has produced 31 All-Patriot League selections in seven years and six Patriot League Volleyball Player of the Year recipients. In the fall of 2002, Goldberg became Director of Metro American VBC. Under his direction, MAVBC has grown from 5 teams in Washington , DC , to over 20 teams in the metropolitan area. Along the way to the top, Goldberg has worked with several prestigious volleyball camps and committees. In 1997, for example, he was the United States representative, along with the Tampa Bay Juniors Volleyball Club, at a four-nation international camp in Europe . Elite junior national teams from Switzerland , Slovakia , and the Czech Republic hosted the camp. During his summers, Goldberg conducts individual and team volleyball camps at AU and other locations in the Mid-Atlantic region. He has also held seminars in the National Mizuno Coaching Clinic Series. Goldberg now serves as a voting member of the national AVCA/USA Today Top-25 Coaches Poll and is also a voting member of the All-American committee. He lives in Maryland with his wife, Bonnie; daughter, Arielle, 18, who plays volleyball at the University of Pacific ; and two sons, Jared, 16, and Mitchell, 13.

Bernard J. Fisken, has extensive experience in accounting, financial management and US Government contracting with Non Profit Organizations and Consulting Firms that work in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and Africa. He also is an expert on overhead rates and fringe benefit rates that meet U.S. Government standards. Bernie is an expert on taxation of Expatriate Americans living abroad and yearly presents an all day workshop, Taxation of Americans Overseas, for international organizations working globally. Bernie is particularly familiar with the overseas working/living environment, having spent time in Asia, Africa and Latin America as a Peace Corps Volunteer, USAID contractor and independent consultant. He has extensive experience with both Non-Profit and For-Profit Organizations subject to U.S. Government contracting issues under the OMB Circulars and Federal Acquisition Regulations.

Brandon Sturdivant is a heavily involved student at the American University. Mr. Sturdivant is a man that had to work hard against incredibly adverse situations as a teen, and this motivates him to give back to children who experience similar struggles today. He is responsible for starting Concerned Black Men at American University, and he also takes the time to teach etiquette classes for under privileged children at a local elementary school. Academically, Mr. Sturdivant is studying sociology, and aspires to earn a Masters degree as well. Within his chapter, Brandon Sturdivant has served as the Director of Guide Right, ensuring that Kappa Chi gives back to the youth of Washington, D.C.

Brenda Jones is Principal of Brenda B. Jones Associates, Inc. based in Columbia, Maryland, USA. With more than 25 years in the field of social change and organization development, her work focuses on organization culture, strategy and change; executive coaching; leadership development and lead projects to build individual, group and organization capabilities. She consults with a broad range of clients inside and outside the United States. Brenda serves on the faculty of American University/NTL graduate program in Organization Development, the Gestalt Organization and Systems Development (OSD) Center, the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and assists in the delivery of a course on Interpersonal Dynamics at the Stanford School of Business. She is coeditor of The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change published in 2006. Brenda is a member of the NTL Institute, OD Network, IODA, Academy of Management and past chair of the Board of Trustees and the OD Network and past president of the Chesapeake Bay OD Network.

Fuad El-Hibri is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Emergent Biosolutions, a Maryland-based biotechnology company focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of immunobiotics. Emergent is the sole manufacturer of and FDA-licensed anthrax vaccine, BioThrax. Mr. El-Hibri is a member of the Board of Trustees of American University and of the International Biomedical Research Alliance.

Dr. Beyer, president of Nathan Associates since 1978, is a highly skilled expert witness. In 1998 he testified for Litton Industries in its antitrust case against Honeywell, helping Litton win one of the largest antitrust judgments of that year. He co-authored Forced Labor Under the Third Reich, a damage assessment used in negotiations between lawyers representing survivors of forced labor and representatives of German corporations. More recently, he has studied the U.S. grain markets and the import of genetically modified seeds in these markets. Dr. Beyer is currently analyzing anticompetitive behavior among major U.S. air carriers. He has performed economic analyses and business valuations in many litigation matters, particularly those related to antitrust. Well known for succinct and persuasive definitions of relevant markets, assessments of anticompetitive conduct, and damage analyses, he has testified in federal, state, and tax courts. Also an adjunct professor of economics at the American University in Washington, D.C., Dr. Beyer is researching international trade and emerging market economies. He has worked for the Ford Foundation and was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.