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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.

Joseph DeSena has been an entrepreneur since the age of eight. From selling fireworks at age 8 to building a t-shirt business in high school to building a multimillion dollar pool business in college to creating a Wall Street trading firm that was sold to Tullett Prebon, DeSena is a living definition of the word 'entrepreneur'.

Joseph DeSena received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.

Chris Dearnley is the co-founder of Pura Vida Coffee. He has lived in Costa Rica for over 16 years. He coordinates the Pura Vida Partners staff and volunteers in the implementation of Pura Vida's programs for at-risk children and families in Central America. Chris draws on his experience in international business, non-profit and pastoral work in making life-changing impact in the lives of children in need.

Chris Dearnley earned a BA from Wheaton College and a MBA from Harvard University.

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.

Kevin Gaugush is the Vice President of Human Resources at Aramark Corporation. Aramark employs over 250,000 personnel.

Kevin Gaugush received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his MBA from the University of Michigan.

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.

David Gottlieb is the Managing Partner of Noble Bridge Group LLC, a financial consulting company he established in early 2004. Also since 2004, Mr. Gottlieb has served as a Director of ABIOMED, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical products designed to assist or replace the pumping function of the failing heart. From 1990 to 2003, Mr. Gottlieb held various investment banking positions most recently as Global Head of the Medical Technology Corporate and Investment Banking Group of Banc of America Securities. In this role, he was responsible for the sector team covering nearly 300 companies globally in the medical device and hospital supply industry as well as the life science tools, in-vitro diagnostics and diagnostic imaging industries.

Previously, he held a number of positions overseeing investment banking for life science companies, including at UBS Investment Bank and Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated. Mr. Gottlieb has completed more than $45 billion in corporate banking, investment banking and strategic advisory transactions such as mergers and acquisitions in the medical technology, biotechnology and health care services fields.

David Gottlieb's degrees include a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Connecticut College and a Master's in Business Administration from the Columbia Business School.

John Cayer has worked in Brand Management at SC Johnson for the past 10 years.

John Cayer is a graduate of Cornell University.

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.