ABOUT KEVIN POWELL
Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important
voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist
Gloria Steinem proclaims that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and a
very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human, and
this will bring the deepest revolution of all." Famed scholar and social
critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has called Powell "a mighty wind of fresh
air." And of Kevin Powell the writer asha bandele says “When you
consider the intelligence and breadth of Kevin Powell’s writing and
activism, you come to the conclusion that there may be no better
spokesperson and representative for a generation that has too long been
counted out.”

Kevin Powell is an activist, poet, journalist, essayist, songwriter,
editor, hiphop historian, public speaker, political consultant and
fundraiser, and businessman


ABOUT KENNETH COOPER
Cooper is the national editor for the Boston Globe. Previously, he was
the national education reporter for the Washington Post, an assignment
he held since his return from New Delhi, India, where he was the Post's
South Asia Bureau Chief.

Cooper graduated from Washington University in 1977, after consecutive
years in which he served as president of the student body, cochairman of
the Association of Black Students, and news editor of Student Life.

Before the Post, Cooper worked for the St. Louis American, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, Boston Globe, and the Washington bureau of Knight-Ridder.
Past assignments have included covering ongress, the Michael Dukakis
campaign for president, the Boston public schools and the Massachusetts
State House.

While working at the Boston Globe, Cooper shared a Pulitzer Prize for
special local reporting in 1984 for his work on a series about racism in
Boston.


ABOUT MADELINE DREXLER
Madeline Drexler is a science and medical journalist. Formerly a
medical columnist for The Boston Globe Magazine, she was a 1996-1997
Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She was awarded the 1992
International Biomedical Science Journalism Prize by the General Motors
Cancer Research Foundation. Her articles have appeared in The New York
Times, The American Prospect, Self, Good Housekeeping, and many other
national publications.