Anton Shammas is a noted Palestinian editor, TV producer, freelance journalist, author and poet. His book, Arabesques, was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best novels of 1988 and has been published in six languages.
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-Argentinian-American novelist, playwright, academic, and human rights activist. He is an exile from the Pinochet regime in Chile and the child of Holocaust refugees. At Duke University, Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Literature. With expertise in Latin American culture and politics, he has also taught at the Universidad de Chile, the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Amsterdam.
Richard Lewontin is Emeritus Professor of Biology and Emeritus Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. As an evolutionary geneticist, Prof.
Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker. She directs documentaries, as well as narrative television and film. Her recent work includes the film Running from Crazy (2013), about the life of actress Muriel Hemingway, and Fight to Live (2012), which chronicles the struggles of those with rare diseases as they seek treatment against roadblocks imposed by the FDA approvals process.
Ursula Franklin was a scientist, activist, and public figure known for her peace and climate activism. Franklin received her Ph.D. in experimental physics at the Technical University of Berlin in 1948, coming to Canada the following year.
