Robert Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University and Rose Marie Beebe is Professor of Spanish Literature. They are the translators, editors, and annotators of Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women: 1815-1848 (2006). They are the co-editors of Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 (2001) as well as the translators, editors, and annotators of The History of Alta California by Antonio María Osio (1996), which received the Norman Neuerburg Award from the Historical Society of Southern California. 

Multiple award winning broadcaster Valerie Smaldone is an actress, voice-over artist and content provider, as well as a private talent coach and instructor at School of Visual Arts. 

She can be heard on 1010WINS as their imaging voice, hosting the syndicated radio show, America Weekend, or narrating the crime series, Fatal Encounters on Investigation Discovery. As a seasoned interviewer, Valerie has interviewed hundreds of superstars, entrepreneurs and authors. 

Dario Snaidero, President and CEO of Snaidero USA, was born on March 13, 1953 in Majano, Italy.

 The son of Snaidero R. S.p.A founder Rino Snaidero, he studied at the University of Trieste and served as the President of the Snaidero Basketball Team, distinguishing himself as the youngest leader in the league. In 1979, he earned a Doctorate in Political Science, with honors, from the University, and immediately joined his fathers company as an executive manager in charge of international marketing. 

Born in Majano, in the province of Udine, in 1948. Degree in Economics and Commerce from the Università degli Studi of Trieste.

He began his professional career in 1973 as President of Lamborghini Spa, a manufacturer of skis and sportswear. From 1984 to 1991, as President and CEO, he contributed to the success of Abaco Spa of Tolmezzo (Udine), a company that produces component kitchens, which thanks to a strategic development plan rapidly rose to a position of leadership in its market of reference, also gaining acclaim in the United States. 

Marcie Stokman is the founder of Well-Read Mom.  She writes and speaks to encourage women. She homeschools and teaches high school literature and writing. Marcie and her husband Peter live in Crosby, MN. They have seven children and six grandchildren.

Margaret Stokman is a high school senior living in Crosby, MN and one of seven children. Growing up is often reduced to jumping through endless hoops, but as a part of the Human Adventure Series this year Margaret will share how reading the classic Frankenstein changed the way she works and studies.

Evelyn Troester DeGraf (Founder and Artistic Director of GHOSTLIGHT) is an internationally accomplished musical director, choral conductor, and music educator. Originally from Germany, Evelyn received her Masters degree with a dual concentration in performance and music education at the renowned University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich in 2005. 

Gabriele Vanoni was born in Milan in 1980. After a few international experiences as a very young composer, he started his musical studies at the Conservatory of Milan, where he graduated in Piano with Maria Isabella De Carli and in Composition with Giuseppe Giuliano. He continued his education with a Ph.D. in Music Composition at Harvard University, under the guidance of Julian Anderson, Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. At Harvard, he also received instruction by Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, and Tristan Murail.

President, Foundation for Subsidiarity
Professor of Statistics, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy

Giorgio Vittadini is the Founder and President of the Foundation for Subsidiarity (Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà), in Milan, Italy, which provides educational and training programs, conducts research projects, editorial and publishing activities, conferences and seminars, and it is also the editor of the online newspaper ilsussidiario.net. 

Rebecca Vitz Cherico grew up in New York City. She graduated from Yale University in 1993 with a B.A. in Italian and later did her doctorate in Spanish literature at New York University, where her dissertation focused on the intersection of evolutionary theory and Spanish literature. Since 2004 she has taught both mostly a "Great Books"-style course at Villanova University, as well as Spanish and Italian. Rebecca edited Atheist to Catholic: Stories of Conversion; she contributed a chapter on the priestly abuse crisis to the volume Breaking Through: Catholic Women Speak for Themselves; and she hosted a radio program on conversion for Radio Maria. 

Marta Zaknoun was born and raised in Jerusalem. She graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a degree in Communications and Journalism in 2008. Before moving to Toronto where she lives now with her husband and 3 children, she worked with different Catholic media channels and in the Public Relations Department at her university while finishing her studies. Since she moved to Canada, she has worked in the field of public relations with not-for-profit organizations, as well as in interpretation. She also writes articles about politics and Christians in the Middle East for Il Sussidiario, an Italian online newspaper. 

Changsheng Zhang MD, Joint PhD candidate, research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.