Craig Lanier Allen is a resident of Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from The Citadel (Distinguished Air Force Student) and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a French and Latin American Foreign Area Specialist with military and diplomatic postings in Paris, Sarajevo, Panama and Seoul. He has also served as a consultant to the RAND Corporation’s Crises and Lesser Conflicts project and as a member of the faculty of the University of Southern California, where he taught national security policy and developed a course in contemporary French thought. He is Executive Director of the Museum of the American in Paris Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to the creation of a museum commemorating the historical American experience in Paris. His DLS research interest is in applying the philosophies of space and time to an examination of the historical American presence in Paris.

Tom Breen, a native of the Boston suburbs, lives near Orlando, Florida. He is a lifelong journalist. His experience includes work as a Manila-based foreign correspondent in the mid-1980s, covering the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. In addition to writing about the people power revolution that toppled Marcos in the Philippines, Breen traveled across Asia and the Pacific, reporting from such spots as Fiji, Jakarta, Singapore, Brunei and refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border. He has worked for many publications, including US News and World Report, the Washington Star, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Arizona Republic and Florida Today (a USA TODAY newspaper). He has also served as editor of Air Force Times. He has a B.A in international affairs, summa cum laude, and a Master of Liberal Studies degree, both from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. His doctoral thesis is expected to examine the evangelical conservatism that shapes American social and foreign policy.

Peter Brookes is a Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. He is also a member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a weekly New York Post columnist, a frequent TV/radio commentator, including appearances on FOX, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and BBC, and the author of the new book: A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Rogue States. Before joining Heritage, Brookes served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, a staffer for the House International Relations Committee, in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, at the U.S. State Department, and in the U.S. Navy. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (B.S., Engineering), the Defense Language Institute (Diploma, Russian), Naval War College (Diploma, Strategic Studies) and the Johns Hopkins University (MA., Government).

John Foster-Bey, currently the Senior Advisor to the Director for Research and Policy Development at the Corporation for National and Community Services in Washington, D.C., is responsible for managing and producing research products related to volunteerism and community service. He has been the Senior Associate and Director of the Program for Regional Economic Opportunity at the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Center. During his career in philanthropy, he was Vice President of Programs for the Northwest Area Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota; Associate Director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Community Initiatives Program; and a Program Officer in the Ford Foundation’s Urban Poverty Program and Office of Program Related Investments. He spent ten years working in the areas of corporate finance, local government and non-profit youth programs. He has a B.A. in history, an M.A. in public administration, and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. For the DLS, he will continue his research in a study of the balance between the use of government policies and local engagement in providing opportunities for low-skilled, low-income individuals.

Wera (Via) Hildebrand grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark and now lives in Washington, D.C. She has an M.A. from Copenhagen School of Business Administration and an M.A in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She taught Scandinavian language, literature, folklore and mythology at Harvard University and Copenhagen University. After living in India, she founded and is now working as the Chair of Documenting Indian Democracy, 1848-1947, an India-based non-governmental organization. The missions of DID are to identify and digitally copy the documentation—letters, diaries, and photographs—related to the Independence Movement in India, and to build a Freedom Museum in New Delhi. Her research for the DLS will involve an examination of the dominant ideas and concepts, both Indian and Western, which formed the foundation of India’s Freedom Movement and how these ideas were acquired and applied by the various major figures in the Movement.

Terence J. “Casey” Husband is entering his eighth season as editorial director of the Washington Redskins. His responsibilities include managing and editing all editorial matter relating to the National Football League team. He also is the columnist for Redskins publications and for the team’s website, Redskins.com. Previously, he was managing editor at Snyder Communications, an international marketing and publishing firm based in Bethesda, Maryland. Before that he worked in the newspaper business in West Chester, Pennsylvania, as, at various times, sports editor, columnist and reporter at the Daily Local News, a suburban Philadelphia daily. He has a Master’s in Literature from American University and completed his MALS at Georgetown University. He also has a certificate in Theology from Georgetown University and degrees from Temple University and West Chester University. For the DLS he will continue to focus on theology and literature, with a background derived from his Master’s thesis on the fifteenth-century Florentine Dominican, Girolamo Savonarola.

W. Taylor Johnson is from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland. He has a B.S, degree, magna cum laude, and an M.F.A. with honors, both in Studio Art, from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has more than twenty years of experience in higher education administration, and is currently employed as Director of Biomedical Graduate Education at Georgetown University Medical Center. His proposed area of study for the DLS will focus on how art provides insight into the mind, soul and spirit of a society, and how artistic expression survives, and even thrives, in adversity and societal challenges, with particular emphasis on twentieth-century German (Weimar Republic and Third Reich) and/or Russian (Pre-Revolutionary and Soviet) artistic expression.

William Kuckuck received an M.B.A. from Rockhurst University and a B.S. in Agricultural Economics/Business Management from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has more than twenty-five years of leadership experience building global companies and motivating multi-cultural staff around the world. He held the most senior management position for Ralston Purina Company while posted in Asia and for Tyson Foods International in the United States. Currently, as Executive Vice President of American Farmland Trust, he manages the day-to-day activity of the non-profit’s farmland protection work and the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill reform campaign, while overseeing AFT’s two research institutions—The Farmland Information Center and The Center for Agriculture and the Environment.

Anne McGee is from Alexandria, Virginia and holds a B.A. degree from Syracuse University in Interdisciplinary Linguistic Studies. She holds an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University in San Francisco; a Master of Art and Science in Airpower from the U.S Air Force’s School for Advanced Airpower Studies in Montgomery, Alabama; and is a Distinguished Graduate of the M.S. program in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), part of National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Currently Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair for Military Studies and Deputy Department Chair for Military Studies and Logistics at ICAF, she has had nearly twenty-five years of experience in flying, operations and joint strategy work. She applied for the DLS to pursue as her research area a broad understanding of how the U.S. uses ideas and values to influence others around the world, through both formal government programs and happenstance.

Pablo G. Molina is from Madrid, Spain. His B.S. (summa cum laude) is in Business Administration, with a concentration in Management and Decision Sciences; his M.A. also is in Business Administration, with a concentration in Management Information Systems, both from Saint Louis University. He has more than twenty years of experience in international technology leadership He is presently Chief Information Officer of the Georgetown University Law Center Campus, where he is responsible for intelligent technology adoption at one of the world’s premier law schools. He has published several articles and books on technology and higher education. His research interest is the impact of technology in higher education, specifically how technology is transforming education in ways that faculty, education officials, technology experts and legislators are not even anticipating.

Naveen Ramnanan holds a B.A. in English from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago, an M.A. in Liberal Studies from the University of Miami, Florida, and a Business Administration certificate from Georgetown University. He has taught general education courses at Devry University, the University of Miami, Barry University, George Mason University and Potomac College. His interdisciplinary background includes: research analyst at a think tank; assistant editorial production director at a publishing house; and journalist at a Caribbean news agency. His area of research will be the contemporary development of apologetics and metapologetics, looking at the growing scope and disciplines in apologetics, especially controversial issues such as intelligent design, pluralism, the problem of evil, the relationship between faith and reason and the development of apologetics within historical Christian movements.

Susan Van Baalen , O.P., a Dominican Sister from Adrian, Michigan, holds advanced degrees from De Paul University and the Jesuit School of Theology, the Divinity School of Loyola University, Chicago. She entered the field of correctional ministry as a Chaplain in 1980, accepting positions of increasing responsibility ministering in county jails, state and federal prisons, and administrative offices. Currently Chief Chaplain for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the U.S. Department of Justice, she is responsible for development and implementation of national policies to ensure the religious rights and accommodation of the religious beliefs and practices of approximately 200,000 prisoners in 110 federal prisons throughout the country. She also serves as a subject-matter expert on the various religions represented within the inmate population. From this world of experience she has identified a need to provide clear and unequivocal information on Islam in American prisons and has chosen the DLS to explore this vital issue in U.S. government and society.

Erin Waldron, originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a resident of Arlington, Virginia. She is the Manager of International Affairs for Underwriters Laboratories (UL), where she is responsible for developing UL’s trade policy agenda and executing it in consultation with the US. Trade Representative’s Office, the U.S. Department of Commerce and other domestic and international stakeholders. She is also active in educating foreign officials on the U.S standards and conformity assessment system and UL’s role as a service provider within the larger system. She has worked in the international trade and finance arena for the past six years in D.C., including serving as the Director of the Bretton Woods Committee. She is a graduate of the Georgetown MALS program and has an Honors B.A in both International Relations and Spanish from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She intends to continue studying international issues in the DLS program, focusing on some of the United States’ major trading partners.

Jacqueline Wilson is a Senior Program Officer in the Professional Training Program at the United States Institute of Peace, where she has been leading conflict resolution training programs in Sudan since 2004. She intends to study traditional conflict resolution mechanisms in Sudan with an eye toward determining whether the roots of these techniques are primarily African, Arab, or Islamic. She has a diverse background, including more than twenty years of experience in the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserves, during which time she performed a variety of intelligence, terrorism and political/military roles. She worked with state-level government as a lobbyist and was a member of the staff of the governor of Maryland. She has lived in both Saudi Arabia and Kenya and has traveled extensively. She earned a secondary social science teaching credential and has been a teacher and trainer at many levels. She holds an M.S. in Strategic Intelligence with Middle East Emphasis from the Joint Military Intelligence College and an M.A. in Defense Administration from Northern Michigan University.