Director, The National Chorale

Mr. Josman is the current director of the National Chorale. The National Chorale and Music Director Martin Josman were recently honored by Choral Director Magazine with a major cover and feature article about the company’s acclaimed performances and its unique vocal music education programs in the public schools.

Author, It Takes a Candidate

Professor Lawless is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University. A nationally recognized expert on women’s involvement in politics, she is co-author with Richard L. Fox of It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office. She has also published articles in various political science journals.

Journalist & Author, Sex and the Seasoned Woman

Ms. Sheehy is best-selling author of 15 books. In Ms. Sheehy’s newest work, Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life, she reports on the emergence of a new phenomenon among middle-aged boomer women. As a literary journalist, Ms. Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New York magazine. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984, she won the Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America for her in-depth character portraits of national and world leaders, including both Presidents Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

President, The Humane Society of the United States

In 2004, Mr. Pacelle was named president of the Humane Society of the United States. Mr. Pacelle joined HSUS in 1994 after working at the anti-hunting group the Fund for Animals for six years. He is in charge of HSUS’s many ballot initiative campaigns, winning 17 of the 22 in which he has been involved, including a ballot initiative in Florida to ban the pork industry from using gestation crates. He is co-founder and former chairman of Humane USA, a non-partisan organization that works to elect humane-minded candidates to political office.

Former Governor, Vermont

Madeleine May Kunin is the former Governor of Vermont (1985-1991). She was also a Lieutenant Governor (1978-1982) and Vermont state legislator (1972-1978). She is now a Marsh Scholar Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont in Burlington. She serves as President of the board of the Institute for Sustainable Communities, a non-governmental organization that she founded in 1991. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996-99 and prior to her appointment as ambassador, she served for three and a half years as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education in the Clinton Administration.

Candidate, U.S. House (OH-02)

Dr. Wulsin (D) is running in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District. In 2006, Dr. Wulsin won more votes in Ohio’s 2nd district than any Democrat has ever done before, coming within 2,500 votes of beating the incumbent, a margin of just one percent. Dr. Wulsin is “meeting the challenge” on the issue of healthcare; as Cincinnati’s city epidemiologist, Dr. Wulsin directed a health literacy program, and currently serves as chair of the board of the Health Resource Center, a free clinic. She also founded SOTENI International, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing HIV and AIDS among orphans in Kenya.