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Carl Wilkens A Humanitarian aid worker that refused to leave Rwanda during the genocide. Carl uses a storytelling format to talk about the genocide and the treacherous thinking that says we can problem solve by excluding someone. He facilitates his work with students, and through World Outside My Shoes, an educational nonprot formed by he and his wife Theresa.

Dr. Jerey Kahn Deputy Director for Policy and Administration; Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics. He works in a variety of areas in bioethics, exploring the intersection of ethics and health/science policy, including research ethics, ethics and public health and ethical issues in leading edge biomedical technologies.

Eva Hassett Executive Director, International Institute of Buffalo. Eva is a true optimist who believes in improving Buffalo by supporting its human and creative assets. She sees our foreign born neighbors as key to Buffalo's positive future. She spent 12 years in Buffalo City Hall, and is a board member of CEPA Gallery and the Richardson Center Corporation. Eva has degrees from Harvard and Yale Universities.

Dr. James Waller Cohen Endowed Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College. He worked at the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, and Whitworth University as a professor of psychology. His discipline makes a contribution to Holocaust and genocide studies in helping to understand perpetrator behavior - the rank-andle killers.