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Rosalind Resnick, a former business and computer journalist who built her Internet marketing company, NetCreations, Inc., from a two-person home-based startup to a public company that generated $58 million in sales, is the Founder and CEO of Axxess Business Centers, Inc., which provides strategic consulting and assistance in business plan development for startups and emerging businesses. Resnick co-founded NetCreations in March 1995 and served as the company's CEO and President until December 2001, pioneering the concept of 100% Opt-In email marketing in 1996 and spearheading the company's successful IPO in 1999. In 1994, Resnick co-authored The Internet Business Guide and, from 1994 to 1997, served as the editor and publisher of Interactive Publishing Alert, a semi-monthly newsletter tracking trends and developments in online publishing and advertising. Resnick began her career in the newspaper industry in 1980 at The Baltimore Sun and worked as a business writer at The Miami Herald from 1984 to 1989. Her articles about entrepreneurship and small business regularly appear in Entrepreneur.com. Rosalind Resnick received B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from The Johns Hopkins University.

Luciana Aguiar is a former partner with Data Popular, a market research firm established in 2000 in Sao Paulo, Brazil with the mission to build unparalleled knowledge on low-and medium-income consumers. Currently, Aguiar is a senior partner of Plano CDE a new consulting and research company aiming at understanding business models focused on BOP markets (www.planocde.com.br) and has been in charge of introducing cutting edge ethnography methodology into market research in Brazil.

Aguiar worked as a Program Officer for UNESCO sponsored programs for low-income population in Brazil coordinated by The Comunidade Solidaria Initiative and Sebrae (1998-2003), as a Curator for art exhibits and educational programs at museums including Museu Virtual A Casa, Museu da Casa Brasileira, and Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo (1998-2003), and as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) (1993-97).

Luciana Aguiar holds a BA in Social Sciences from UnB in Brazil a MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Social and Visual Anthropology , both from Cornell University. She is the author of Spinning Lives (1996, University Press of America), a book based on her doctoral research.

Luciana Aguiar holds a BA in Social Sciences from UnB in Brazil a MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Social and Visual Anthropology , both from Cornell University. She is the author of Spinning Lives (1996, University Press of America), a book based on her doctoral research.

Lynn Book is an innovative educator, internationally recognized performance artist, entrepreneur and creativity specialist who relocated from New York City to Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the fall of 2005 to accept a unique position as Faculty Fellow in Creativity at Wake Forest University.

For over twenty years Book has inspired students, professionals, businesses and institutions in a broad range of settings to create new models of innovation for individuals, workplaces and cultural domains. She has contributed to the development of groundbreaking programs that foster innovations in performance and new media in Chicago: The School of the Art Institute (1985-95), in New York City: The Sidney Kahn Kitchen Summer Institute (2000-05) and in Austria at the Transart Institute, Europe's first low-residency MFA program for new media, where she continues as an associate since it's inception in 2005.

Her 20 year teaching career in higher education has included institutions such as Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, Barnard College and Columbia College in Chicago, among others.

Her performance career has included citations, fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts and MacArthur Foundation funding for the production of a radio drama based upon her original one-woman theater show, Gorgeous Fever.

Lynn Book holds a BFA in sculpture from Memphis College of Art and an MFA in performance art and media studies from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Amy Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, she is the founder of the International Development Initiative at MIT and has taught courses related to the subject for 10 years.

She served in the US Peace Corps in Botswana for four years before working in Senegal, South Africa, Nepal, Haiti, Ghana and Hondouras.

In 2004, she was selected as a MacArthur Fellow, recognizing her efforts in creating technologies to improve lives in the developing world and for her finding opportunities for students to do the same.

Amy Smith received her B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT and is currently working toward an M.S. in technology and policy.

Alisa Cohn is founder of Alisa Cohn Coaching and is a Business Coach with more than ten years of professional experience in large and small corporate environments. Prior to starting her own company, her professional experience included working in the Middle Market Advisory Services Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Alisa Cohn earned her MBA from Cornell University, where she was awarded the Fried Fellowship for Leadership and Academic Excellence. Alisa is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Kathryn Blume is Co-Founder of the Lysistrata Project, the first worldwide theatrical event for peace. She has toured The Accidental Activist - her critically acclaimed one-woman show about Lysistrata Project - to over 30 cities in the US and Canada, receiving an Austin Critics Table Award nomination. She is an Artistic Associate at Vermont Stage Company in Burlington, where her play Vanya/Vermont - a modern adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya - premiered in the spring of 2005. Kathryn's new solo show, The Boycott, premiered at VSC in January, 2007.

Her Off-Broadway credits include The Seagull, Mirandolina, and The Country Wife. Her Regional theater credits include Two Rooms, She Stoops to Conquer, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Sylvia, Waiting for Godot, A Streetcar Named Desire, Amadeus, June Moon, Antigone, Much Ado About Nothing, The Baby Dance, and Our Country's Good. Her Film credits include Deception, My Mother's Early Lovers, The Apartment, and Maybe It's Me.

In amongst her theatrical activities, Blume has had essays published in the books MoveOn.org's 50 Ways To Love Your Country, Code Pink's Stop the Next War Now, Outcry - American Voices of Conscience Post 9/11, and 365 Ways to Change the World. She has also had essays published in the weekly Seven Days and in Yes Magazine. Blume has worked for organizations such as the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and Forest Watch. She founded Earth on the Air, a nationally-syndicated, award-winning environmental and social justice radio program, and was a company member of Living Voices, touring one-woman shows about the Holocaust and immigration to communities nationwide.

Blume co-founded The Hill Actor's Retreat Center and New Paradigms Personal Coaching Services, and has taught yoga, acting, Shakespeare, stress-reduction, and public speaking in venues across the country.

Kathryn Blume received her BA from Yale with a self-designed degree in environmental studies and theater.

Deirdre Nissenson Kurzweil is currently serving as a market research manager in the Office of Publications and Marketing at Cornell University.

Previously, she was a project manager at Total Research Corporation and Opinion Research Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey. She has also worked as senior research analyst for Merrill Lynch, where much of her work focused on assessing the impact of various advertising efforts.

Deirdre Kurzweil received her undergraduate degree from Dickinson College.

Angela Noble-Grange teaches oral communication and management writing at Cornell University. Her specific interests include writing and speaking to influence change and differences in communication style and effectiveness based on gender, race and/or culture. Noble-Grange was the director of the Office for Women and Minorities in Business from August 1999 to July 2005, and president of the Noble Economic Development Group, a micro enterprise development consulting company, from June 1994 to January 1999. Angela Noble-Grange earned her BA in communication studies and Russian from SUNY Oswego and her MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University in 1994.

Nikki Daruwala is Director of the Social Responsibility program at American Rights at Work. Prior to this position, she was Manager for Advocacy and Social Policy at Calvert, a leading socially responsible mutual fund company. Daruwala is a founding member of the Child Labor Coalition, and has served as Chairperson of the Indigenous Rights Committee and the Diversity Committee at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and on the Shareholder Advisory and Policy Committee Board of the Social Investment Forum. She currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Daruwala is a graduate of Ithaca College and holds an MS in Industrial and Labor Relations from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.