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Tony Vaux worked with Oxfam Great Britain from 1972 until 1999. He spent nearly seven years in India developing Oxfam's work with community-based projects. From 1984 he was coordinator of Oxfam's global emergency programs, and became particularly closely involved in Ethiopia, Sudan, Mozambique, and Somalia. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, he turned to Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region. He is the author of The Selfish Altruist and currently works as a consultant, focusing on areas of conflict.

FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER

Dr. Michael A. Covington is Associate Director of the University of Georgia's Institute for Artificial Intelligence. In addition to his academic work, he is also a noted amateur astrophotographer and author of critically acclaimed books on the subject including Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes, Astrophotography for the Amateur, How to Use a Computerized Telescope, and Digital SLR Astrophotography. Dr. Covington practices his faith as an evangelical Christian and finds no conflict between science and spirituality.

FEATURED POLITICAL SATIRISTS

The Yes Men are a genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce to ask questions and impersonate corporate leaders. Targets have included The World Trade Organization, McDonalds, Dow Chemical, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The two leading members of The Yes Men are known by a number of aliases. Their latest feature The Yes Men Fix the World was released in October, 2009.

SUPPORTING INTERVIEWS

Dr. Chris Brasher is an Australian anesthetist who worked with Medicins Sans Frontiers for nine years in Malawi, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was instrumental in bringing life-saving AIDS medications to Malawi, where he managed the ARV treatment program. In Liberia, he acted as MSF Medical Coordinator, eventually becoming MSF Director in Armenia. He is featured in the documentary film Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders and currently practices pediatrics at a hospital in Paris.

Mark Hopkins is a documentary film director and producer. He is the first film director to be allowed behind the scenes into the world of Doctors Without Borders, resulting in the documentary Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders which is currently making the film festival circuit. His previous films as a producer include Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry. He was also a member of the crew on South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, A Civil Action, and Sleepy Hollow.

Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open sourceThe New York Times Syndicate, as well as regular columns for The Guardian of London, Arthur, Discover, and the online magazines Daily Beast and The Feature. Rushkoff currently teaches in the Media Studies department at The New School University in Manhattan. He has previously lectured at New York University's ITP, founded that program's Narrative Lab and has also has taught online for the MaybeLogic Academy. solutions to societal problems. He has written ten books on media, technology, and culture. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for

Kristen Renwick Monroe is Professor of Politics and Associate Director of the Program in Political Psychology at the University of California at Irvine. She has taught at Princeton, NYU, SUNY at Stony Brook, and the University of British Columbia. Monroe's book The Heart of Altruism was awarded the 1997 Best Book Award by the American Political Science Association Section in Political Psychology and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  She also authored The Hands of Compassion, a book awarded the 2005 Robert E Lane Award for Best Book in Political Psychology by the American Political Science Association. She is the editor of several books, including Contemporary Empirical Political Theory (University of California, 1997) and The Economic Approach to Politics: A Reassessment of the Theory of Rational Action and the author of Presidential Popularity and the Economy.

Felix Warneken, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He has done post-doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Leipzig. His research explores the origins of social cognition, with a focus on the cognitive and motivational bases of cooperation, particularly in young children and chimpanzees.

Paul Rusesabagina was the assistant manager of the Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines before he became the manager of the Hôtel des Diplomates, both in Kigali, Rwanda. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Rusesabagina used his influence and connections as temporary manager of the Mille Collines to shelter 1,268 Tutsis and moderate Hutus from being slaughtered by the Interahamwe militia. The Academy Award nominated film Hotel Rwanda was based on his actions. He is the author of An Ordinary Man and the founder of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation. In 2005 he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the United States government.

SUPPORTING ARTICLES

Deepak Chopra is an endocrinologist, lecturer, celebrity and author of more than forty-five books on spirituality and mind-body medicine which have been translated into thirty-five languages and sold more than twenty million copies. Chopra began his career as a medical doctor and later worked in mind-body medicine and ayurveda. He has been a keynote speaker at Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Business School, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management and University of Nebraska. The founding director and President of the Alliance for a New Humanity, Chopra is an annual lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School's Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He serves as the Director of Education at the Chopra Center.

Stephen G. Post is Professor of Preventive Medicine, Head of the Division of Medicine in Society, and Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. He is currently a Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and an elected Hasting Center Fellow. Post has published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Science, The International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Journal of Religion, The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet.  In addition, he has written seven scholarly books on altruism and love, and is also the editor of eight other books, most recently including Altruism & Health: Perspectives from Empirical Research.

Rebecca Solnit is the author of ten books, including River of Shadows: Edward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Mark Lytton History Prize. In 2003, she received a Lannan Literary Award. Solnit has also earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship for Literature, and a 2004 Wired Rave Award for writing on the effects of technology on the arts and humanities. She is a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and a regular contributor to Tomsdispatch.com.  She lives in San Francisco.

Robert Watt was the first African American French Horn player to be hired by a major symphony orchestra in the United States. Now retired, his orchestral and soloist career spanned decades performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He also recorded for motion picture and television industry soundtracks including Spiderman II, Rush Hour, Mission Impossible, Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna, and many others. Mr. Watt also helped organize the African American Brass Quintet, "The New Brass Ensemble" which performed throughout the United States and abroad. In 1989 he was invited to serve on the Grand Panel of the National Endowment of the Arts (chamber music division) in Washington D.C.

Jenifer Preston, DVM, is a Homeopathic Veterinarian Doctor. She built a huge practice in Ohio where she was originally trained in allopathic medicine. Since the 1980's, she has adopted fifteen children from third world countries, many of whom were disabled physically or developmentally or both, and brought them to the United States where they could have a chance at a better life.