F. Duane Ackerman

BELL SOUTH CORPORATION

F. Duane Ackerman is President and Chief Executive Officer of BellSouth Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia, the largest of the regional Bell telecommunications companies.

A native of Plant City, Florida, he holds bachelor's and a master's degrees from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as well as a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Ackerman began his telecommunications career in 1964 in Orlando and rose through various assignments in Orlando and Miami, when he became division plant manager in 1971. He was appointed to general personnel supervisor at Southern Bell headquarters in Atlanta in June 1974, and became assistant vice president of the plant department in January 1975. Mr. Ackerman was named a Sloan Fellow at MIT in 1977. He returned to Southern Bell in 1978 as general commercial and marketing manager for the company's North Carolina operations, and was appointed that state's general manager - business the following year.

Mr. Ackerman was elected a vice president in October 1979, and returned to Atlanta as vice president - network for Georgia. He later assume responsibility for the network organizations in North Carolina and South Carolina in 1981. In anticipation of divestiture, he was appointed vice president - corporate planning and development for BellSouth Corporation in October 1983. He was named executive vice president - marketing, network & planning of BellSouth Services, Inc., in March 1985. In April 1989, he returned to BellSouth Corp. As vice chairman - finance and administration.

With the consolidation of Southern Bell, South Central Bell and BellSouth Services in March 1991, he was named vice chairman and group president of BellSouth Telecommunications (BST). He was appointed president and chief operation officer on November 1, 1991, and was named president and chief executive officer of BST on November 1, 1992. He was appointed vice chairman of the board and chief operating officer of BellSouth Corporation on January 1, 1995. Mr. Ackerman was promoted to his current position on January 1, 1997.

Mr. Ackerman presently serves as director of Wachovia Bank of Georgia, American Heritage Life Insurance Corporation, American Business Products, and BellSouth Corporation. Additionally, he serves on the board of Central Atlanta Progress, The Commerce Club and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

He also serves as a trustee of Rollins College and on the board of advisors for Georgia State University College of Business. He is a former member of the board of governors for the Society of Sloan Fellows of MIT. Mr. Ackerman and his wife, Kappy, are the parents of four children, Heather, Amy, Ben and Brandon.

C. Michael Armstrong

AT&T

C. Michael Armstrong was elected Chairman of the Board and CEO of AT&T effective November 1, 1997.

At AT&T, he heads the world's leading communications services company, with more than 80 million customers, 119,000 employees and some $51 billion in revenue.

Mr. Armstrong came to AT&T from Hughes Electronics, where he had been Chairman and CEO for six years, transforming it from a company focused mainly on defense to a powerful competitor in the commercial electronics, space and telecommunications industries.

Prior to Hughes, Mr. Armstrong spent more than three decades with IBM. Beginning there as a systems engineer, he rose through the ranks to become senior vice president and chairman of the board of IBM World Trade Corporation. Earlier, he played major roles in IBM's personal computer and telecommunications businesses.

Born October 18, 1938, in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Armstrong earned a BS degree in business and economics from Miami University of Ohio in 1961, and completed the advanced management curriculum at Dartmouth Institute in 1976. He was awarded honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Pepperdine University in 1997 and Loyola Marymount in 1998.

An active supporter of higher education, Mr. Armstrong is a trustee of Johns Hopkins University and a member of the advisory board of the Yale School of Management.

Mr. Armstrong serves as chairman of the President's Export Council and the Federal Communications Commission's Network Reliability and Interoperability Council. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the Defense Policy Advisory Committee on Trade. He is a member of the board of trustees of Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Armstrong is a member of the board of directors of Citigroup and the supervisory board of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Group.

Zoë Baird is president of the Markle Foundation, a private philanthropy that works to realize the potential of emerging communications tools to improve people's lives. After joining Markle in 1998, Ms. Baird led an assessment of the foundation's programs and has recently announced that Markle will invest up to $100 million over the next three to five years to help ensure that the Internet and other new media serve public needs.

Under Ms. Baird, Markle is working to improve interactive media for children, enhance health care, foster public participation in politics, support increased access to technology and enhance the public voice on Internet policy issues. Markle's current grantees and partners include ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), The Carter Center, Common Cause, Oxygen Media, America Online, Internews Network, Thirteen/WNET, the University of Texas, Oxford University, and The Center for Democracy and Technology.

Ms. Baird's career spans business, government and academia. She has been a senior visiting scholar at Yale Law School, senior vice president and general counsel at Aetna, Inc., counselor and staff executive at General Electric, and a partner in the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. She was also associate counsel to President Jimmy Carter and attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Baird currently serves on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General.

Ms. Baird founded and chairs Lawyers for Children America, which is concerned with the impact of violence on children. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, and serves on the boards of Save the Children, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, The Brookings Institution, and Chubb Corporation, among others.

Ms. Baird holds a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt School of Law, and an undergraduate degree from Berkeley with majors in communications and public policy, and political science. She is married and has two young sons.

David Bolt is the Executive Producer of Digital Divide, a six-hour series for PBS airing nationally beginning on January 28, 2000, at 9 p.m. Mr. Bolt is a co-founder of Studio Miramar and has produced several series for television including the Pacific Profiles series for PBS. Mr. Bolt has won numerous awards for his CD-ROM and multimedia programs. His pioneering multimedia programs include Brothers, a 1992 touch-screen video kiosk for AIDS education among African-American gay men (winner of the Robert Townsend Social Justice award, the Invision multimedia award, and two Cine Golden Eagles) and a CD-ROM series on teenage sex education for Mediavision.

Mr. Bolt's career includes directing the technology for the Bay Area Video Coalition, the George Lucas Educational Foundation, and the California College of Arts & Crafts. Mr. Bolt is also a founder of the National Coalition of Independent Public Television Producers.

Dick Brown

EDS

EDS, a leader in the global information technology services industry for more than 35 years, delivers management consulting, electronic business solutions, and systems and technology expertise to improve the performance of more that 9,000 business and government clients in about 50 countries. EDS reported revenues of $17 billion in 1998.

Dick Brown was appointed Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of EDS in January 1999. Before his appointment at EDS, he served as Chief Executive of Cable & Wireless (C&W) plc in London and as a member of the Board of Directors since July 1996. At C&W, Mr. Brown engineered a series of alliances, acquisitions and divestitures that brought the company into cable television and made it a major player in Internet technology. Under Mr. Brown's leadership, C&W's revenues and pretax profits increased dramatically, transforming the company into one of the world's leading providers of global-integrated communications and a major global carrier of communications traffic - - Internet, data, voice and video - - with annual sales in excess of $12 billion.

Mr. Brown became President and Chief Executive Officer of H&R Block, Inc., in 1995. He was the first nonfamily member to run the world's premier tax preparation company, serving 18 million taxpayers in the United States and around the world. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of CompuServe Inc., a subsidiary of H&R Block. Before joining H&R Block, Mr. Brown was CEO of Illinois Bell, the largest subsidiary of Chicago-based Ameritech Corporation, one of the major U.S. regional telecommunications companies. He was named vice chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of Ameritech Corporation in 1993.

Mr. Brown has been in the telecommunications industry for more than 28 years, holding a number of executive-level positions, including President and Chief Executive Officer of Illinois Bell and Executive Vice President of Sprint Corporation.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Pharmacia and Upjohn, Inc., and the Seagram Company Limited. He has been a member of the Ohio University Foundation Board of Trustees since 1989 and was awarded in honorary doctorate of laws by the University. Mr. Brown is also a member of the Business Roundtable (BRT) and a member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).

Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1947, Mr. Brown received a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude from Ohio University in 1969. He and his wife, Chris, have two adult children, Ryan and Allison.

Candice Carpenter

iVILLAGE INC.

Candice Carpenter is co-founder of iVillage.com: The Womens' Network and has served as Chief Executive Officer since the company's inception in June 1995. The mission of the company is to provide effective solutions to everyday challenges facing women in their many roles as professionals, parents, friends and partners. iVillage.com utilizes the unprecedented power of personalized services and peer advice made possible by the Internet.

Through successful programming, community development, innovative marketing, strategic partnerships and acquisitions, Ms. Carpenter has built iVillage into the number one women's network online, with over 2.1 million members and over 7.3 million unique visitors per month.

Prior to founding iVillage, Ms. Carpenter was President of Q2, the upscale QVC, Inc. shopping channel, from 1993 to 1994. From 1989 to 1993, she was President of a division within Time Warner, where she developed a strong business based on special interest and popular programming, and developed prime time documentary miniseries for NBC, CBS and syndication. Prior to this position, Ms. Carpenter was Vice President in Consumer Marketing at American Express Company.

Currently, Ms. Carpenter serves on the board of Prep for Prep, an organization that provides an opportunity for inner city children to attend and succeed in the leading private schools in New York.

Ms. Carpenter holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Stanford University.

Stephen M. Case

AMERICA ONLINE, INC.

Steve Case is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of America Online, Inc. (NYSE:AOL), based in Dulles, Virginia, the world's leading interactive services company.

Since co-founding America Online in 1985, Mr. Case has focused on building a mass market for interactive services and content. His vision is "to build a global medium as central to people's lives as the telephone or television - - and even more valuable."

Under his leadership, America Online has experienced remarkable growth in the United States and abroad. Since America Online went public in 1992, the company has grown from 250 employees and $30 million in annual revenue to more than 12,000 employees and $4.8 billion in revenue. It has been described as "the first Blue Chip Company of the Internet."

The flagship America Online service has more than 19 million members today, up from one million just five years ago. America Online also operates CompuServe, with approximately two million members; ICQ, an instant communications and chat technology on the Internet with some 32 million registrants worldwide; and Digital City, Inc., the leading branded local content network and community guide.

America Online recently added Netscape to its family of brands, finalizing its acquisition of the software leader in March 1999. Netscape Netcenter, one of the most visited sites on the Web, as well as Netscape's pioneering browsers are now part of AOL's offering of services and products. To provide companies in the Net Economy with easy-to-deploy, e-commerce solutions, AOL recently launched a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, called the Sun-Netscape alliance.

America Online has also been rapidly increasing its momentum in the global marketplace and now offers AOL and CompuServe services in 14 countries and six languages. With more than

3 million paying members outside of the United States, AOL, along with its joint venture partners such as Bertelsmann, AG, Mitsui, Nikkei, Cegetel and Canal +, Royal Bank, China.com Corporation and its affiliate, China Internet Corporation, operates branded services in Germany, U.K., France, Canada, Japan, and Australia, with access for Sweden, Switzerland and Austria. CompuServe branded services are offered in Germany, U.K., France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Canada, with access for Belgium and Luxembourg. In December 1998, AOL announced a joint venture partnership with the Cisneros Group to bring the AOL and CompuServe service to Latin America with AOL Brazil scheduled to launch later this year.

As growth of the new medium accelerates, Mr. Case and America Online are leading the

industry in dealing directly with issues such as integrating technology into schools, ensuring child online safety and protecting consumer privacy. AOL is committed to helping to create a policy environment conducive to the medium's continued growth and to the quick delivery of its full benefits to all consumers.

The company's Foundation supports programs that use the interactive medium to improve the lives of families and children and to empower the disadvantaged through educational programs, community building and expanding access to interactive services.

Born and raised in Hawaii, Mr. Case graduated with a degree in Political Science from Williams College.

Darien Dash, 28, formed Digital Mafia Entertainment (DME), LLC as a privately held company in August of 1994 with the mission of "Expanding the Hardware and Software Infrastructure within Minority Communities." With more than seven years experience in the entertainment, recording and technology industries, Mr. Dash's endeavors have enabled him to build a successful and distinctive business model for DME.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Mr. Dash was Eastern Region Marketing & Sales Director of Digital Music Express (DMX) -- a division of International Cablecasting Technologies owned by cable giant TCI. He managed the marketing and sales initiative of the first digitally compressed music service delivered to the consumer market. Prior to working at DMX, Mr. Dash worked extensively as a marketing consultant for a number of Fortune 500 companies designing new media marketing and promotion strategies for their expanding businesses.

After noticing that the minority market segment was underserved in areas of both communication and information technology, Mr. Dash committed himself to filling the void in this young industry with content, information and services that will attach greater value to the interactive experience of minorities.

In his overall effort to help mend the digital divide between technology haves and have-nots, Mr. Dash has continued to fulfill his mission by recently taking Digital Mafia Entertainment public under the name DME Interactive Holdings, Inc. This inroad has earned DME Interactive Holdings, Inc. the distinction as the first publicly traded Black or African-American owned Internet company in history (NASDAQ-OTC: BB: DGMF).

As a pioneer and activist within the Interactive New Media community, Mr. Dash has participated in various speaking engagements across the country including national fora such as the Rainbow Push Convention, White House briefings on the Internet and Technology, and event sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus. These addresses provide the most compelling exhibit of what he calls his "ministry" -- educating and empowering through technology.

Mr. Dash also actively participates as a mentor and advisor for various non-profit organizations including H.E.A.V.E.N (Helping Educate, Activate, Volunteer and Empower via the 'Net), a non-profit organization of which he is a member of the Board of Directors. Most recently, he was named the Technology Chair of the Superintendents Council for District 5 in Harlem to help to chart the course of technology among students within this historic community in New York City.

He has a B.A. in Political Science and Leadership from the University of Southern California.

Tessie Guillermo

COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA

Ms. Guillermo is Executive Director of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, a nonprofit national health policy and advocacy organization based in San Francisco. She is an expert in the areas of public policy, technology access and health care for Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities and has written and presented numerous papers on the health care needs of minority communities in the United States. She has also provided expert testimony on health issues to President Clinton's Health Care Reform Task Force as well as several government agencies, and has served on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Violence Prevention, sponsored by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Under Ms. Guillermo's leadership, the Health Forum's efforts were instrumental in the recent passage of Executive Order 13125, a White House initiative signed by President Clinton aimed at improving the lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through increased participation in Federal programs where they may be underserved (health, human services, education, housing, labor, transportation and economic and community development). This significant achievement ensures that API communities will receive sorely needed attention and resources from policy makers at every level for generations.

Ms. Guillermo is a longtime advocate for increasing technology access in underserved communities. In 1992, she established the Asian and Pacific Islander Center for Census Information and Services, a program of the Health Forum focused on providing technical assistance and mini-grants to promote the use of technology in disseminating health information at the community level. She serves as Vice Chair and a founding board member of the Community Technology Foundation of California, an independent, nonprofit policy and grant-making organization committed to bringing technology benefits to California's underserved communities. In 1997, Ms. Guillermo played a major role in the creation of the Community Partnership Agreement resulting from the SBC/Pacific Telesis merger. This historic agreement, that includes the gift of a $50 million community technology fund, led to the formation of the Foundation and now serves as a national model for creating technology access.

Ms. Guillermo serves on the boards of several community-based organizations, including the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, the National Intercultural Cancer Council and the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health. She also co-founded and served on the boards of several groups, including the Asian & Pacific Islander California Action Network

(APIsCAN), a statewide coalition of over 180 health and human service providers; the Filipino Task Force on AIDS; the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans for Fair Reapportionment and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans, a political action committee.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Ms. Guillermo attended the University of California at Berkeley and California State University Hayward where she pursued her degrees and studies in economics. She was selected as one of 10 national fellows in 1997 for the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute program.

Wade Henderson, Esq.

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS (LCCR)

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) is the nation's premier civil rights coalition. Established in 1950 by giants of the civil rights movement, the LCCR was created to promote the passage and implementation of civil rights laws designed to achieve equality under law for African Americans, and to improve the quality of life for all Americans. The LCCR has coordinated the national legislative campaign on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957.

During the almost 50 years of its existence, the Leadership Conference has worked to redefine civil rights issues in broad and inclusive ways. Today, the LCCR includes over 180 national organizations working together to resolve the ongoing civil rights problems of our time. These organizations include groups representing persons of color, women, organized labor, persons with disabilities, older Americans, gays and lesbians, and major religious groups.

Mr. Henderson is well-known for his expertise on a wide range of civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights issues. He works principally in the areas of civil rights enforcement; economic and political empowerment for people of color, women, persons with disabilities, and the poor; education reform; welfare reform; criminal justice reform; fair housing policy; issues of immigration and refugee policy; and human rights. Under his leadership, the LCCR has become one of the nation's most effective defenders of affirmative action policy.

Since taking the helm of the LCCR in June 1996, Mr. Henderson has worked diligently to address emerging policy issues of concern to the civil rights community and to strengthen the effectiveness of the coalition. For example, working in conjunction with its affiliate organization, the Leadership Conference Education Fund -- an independent, non-profit, tax-exempt organization, established in 1969 to support educational activities relevant to civil rights - - Henderson was instrumental in developing and publishing Cause for Concern: Hate Crimes in America, the first comprehensive assessment of the hate crime problem in the United States. The report was a catalyst in the sponsorship of the first-ever White House Conference on Hate Crimes, and contributed contributed to the introduction of federal legislation to strengthen existing laws prohibiting hate crimes. Lastly, the LCCR's hate crimes initiative has also led to the creation of a unique website - - "www.civilrights.org" - - that addresses the need for more public education on hate crimes and other civil rights-related activity.

Prior to his role with the Leadership Conference, Mr. Henderson was the Washington Bureau Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In that capacity, he directed the government affairs and national legislative program of the NAACP. Mr. Henderson was also the Director of the NAACP's Voter Empowerment Program. He was the NAACP's advocate on the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the National Voter Registration Act ("Motor-Voter" Law); the Brady Handgun Prevention Act; and the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Mr. Henderson was previously the Associate Director of the Washington national office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where he began his career as a legislative counsel and advocate on a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties issues. Mr. Henderson also served as Executive Director of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), and as Assistant Dean and Director of the Minority Student Program at Rutgers University School of Law.

More recently, Mr. Henderson was appointed the first Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Public Interest Law Professor to the District of Columbia School of Law, University of the District of Columbia, Washington. The one-year appointment honors the lifetime achievements of the former pro bono General Counsel of LCCR who served that organization for more than 40 years and was an ardent supporter of both the NAACP and the ACLU.

On January 26, 1999, the Israeli Embassy and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism awarded Mr. Henderson the Civil Rights Leadership Award during its 13th Annual Commemoration of the Life and Work of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mr. Henderson is a graduate of Howard University and the Rutgers University School of Law. He is a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and the United States Supreme Court. He is the author of numerous articles on civil rights and public policy issues.

Roberta R. Katz

THE TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

Roberta R. Katz is the President and CEO of the Technology Network (TechNet), a national bipartisan political network of technology industry executives. TechNet helps its members build working relationships with national and state political leaders and pass federal and state laws that will help foster the New Economy. As the new CEO of TechNet, Dr. Katz is focusing on bringing the nearly 2000 TechNet members together to improve education technology.

Dr. Katz had previously served as the Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Netscape Communications Corporation. Prior to her post at Netscape, she was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. (now AT&T Wireless) and its subsidiary, LIN Broadcasting Corporation. Dr. Katz was also a lawyer in private practice, specializing in corporate law. She was a partner with the firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, resident in the firm's Seattle office.

Before becoming an attorney, Dr. Katz was a cultural anthropologist. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she specialized in issues of social and cultural change. As a result of her continuing interests in the effects of technological and social change, she conducted a study, under the auspices Discovery Institute, of the effects of the Information Age on the American civil justice system. The results of her study were published in 1997 in a book entitled Justice Matters: Rescuing the Legal System for the 21^st Century.

Dr. Katz is a member of several Boards of Directors, including the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the American Judicature Society. She was recently named one of "The Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal, and is a frequent public speaker on Internet policy issues, legal reform issues, social change issues, and technology-workplace issues.

Dr. Katz received her Bachelor's degree from Stanford University, law degree from University of Washington Law School, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is married and has two children.

Susan Masten

NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS

Susan Masten, a Yurok and Karok Indian, resides near the scenic Redwood forested coast of Northern California. For 22 years, she has advocated for the rights of Native people in her community and across the nation. Her life of public service began when she attended college at Oregon State University and was elected one of the original Presidents of the Native American Student Association. After graduation, she returned home to the reservation and found herself on the front lines of the salmon wars, a battle to protect her people's natural resources, cultural identity, tradition and fishing rights. She was instrumental in securing the Yurok's rights to the Klamath River basin, which were reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Mattz v. Arnet.

Ms. Masten was elected President of the National Congress of American Indians in 1999 and also currently serves as the Yurok Tribal Chairperson. Her goals for both positions are to advocate for the betterment Native communities on a local, state and national level.

Prior to her Presidency, she served as the National Congress of American Indians First-Vice President (1994-1996) and as the Sacramento Area Vice President (1992-1994). She also served as the Marketing and Promotion Specialist for United Indian Development Association and was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to serve as a Yurok Transition Team Member, to implement the Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Act (1988-1991). She served on the Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian Trust Funds (1991-1999); was the President of the Klamath Chamber of Commerce; and was elected Chair of the Klamath River Traditional Indian Fishers Committee.

Since 1976, she has annually served as the Mistress of Ceremonies at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, as well as a Festival Board Member, and has won numerous awards, including "Outstanding Young Woman of America," Humboldt County's "Outstanding Citizen," and Del Norte County's "Young Woman of the Year."

At home, President Masten is active in traditional Yurok practices, including fishing, on the Klamath River and this summer she hosted the traditional Brush Dance. She lives with her husband of 20 years and is the proud grandmother of three.

Hugh B. Price is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League. He became the seventh president of the organization on July 1, 1994. Founded in 1910, the League is the nation's premier social service and civil rights organization serving African Americans and others who are striving to enter the economic mainstream. The Urban League movement consists of the national office and 115 affiliates in 34 states and the District of Columbia.

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1966, Mr. Price began his career as a neighborhood attorney with the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. He then joined Cogen, Holt & Associates, an urban affairs consulting firm in New Haven. Mr. Price closed out his career in Connecticut by serving as Human Resources Administrator for the City of New Haven.

In 1978, Mr. Price joined the Editorial Board of The New York Times, where he wrote editorials on a broad range of topics, such as telecommunications, education, criminal justice and urban policy.

He then moved to public broadcasting as Senior Vice President of WNET/Thirteen, the nation's largest public television station. Initially, he managed local programming and fundraising for the station. In 1984, he became director of the national production division, which produces such legendary PBS series as Great Performances and Nature. Notable series originated during Mr. Price's tenure included American Masters, The Mind, Childhood, Dancing and Art of the Western World.

In 1988, Mr. Price entered the world of philanthropy as Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. He supervised all grant-making in the fields of urban school reform and equal opportunity. Mr. Price was instrumental in conceiving and helping to launch many innovative new initiatives, including those that came to be known as the National Guard Youth Challenge Corps, the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, the Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth, and the Learning Communities Network.

Mr. Price's tenure at the National Urban League has been marked by many notable accomplishments, including restoring the League's fiscal health and enlarging its endowment; restructuring and strengthening the board of directors and staff; defining the Urban League movement's strategic vision, role and priorities; conceiving and launching the League's historic Campaign for African-American Achievement in partnership with the Congress of National Black Churches and nearly two dozen national black civic, social and professional organizations;

initiating the "Achievement Matters" public service campaign in conjunction with the League's landmark publication; and establishing the National Urban League's new headquarters on Wall Street in New York City.

Mr. Price serves on the boards of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Bell Atlantic, Sears Roebuck & Company, Educational Testing Service, and the Urban Institute. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Education Week, Review of Black Political Economy and Phi Delta Kappan.

Mr. Price has received many honorary degrees and awards, including the Medal of Honor from Yale Law School and an honorary degree from his other alma mater, Amherst College. He is married to Marilyn Lloyd Price. They have three grown daughters - - Traer, Janeen and Lauren.

Jorge Reina Schement

THE BENTON FOUNDATION

INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION POLICY, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

Jorge Reina Schement is a Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy in the College of Communications at Penn State University.

He received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University, and an M.S. in Marketing from the School of Commerce at the University of Illinois. His book credits include Global Networks (1999); Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age (1995); Towards an Information Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (1995); Between Communication and Information (1993); Competing Visions, Complex Realities: Social Aspects of the Information Society (1988); The International Flow of Television Programs (1984); Telecommunications Policy Handbook (1982); and Spanish-Language Radio in the Southwestern United States (1979). His research interests focus on the social and policy consequences of the production and consumption of information. A Latino from South Texas, he maintains a special interest in policy as it relates to ethnic minorities.

Dr. Schement's research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the John and Mary Markle Foundation, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Schumann Foundation, the Rainbow Coalition, the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Communications Commission, the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Bell Atlantic, PacTelesys, and Bush Industries, Inc. He has received awards for his scholarship from the University of Kentucky and UCLA.

Dr. Schement sits on the editorial boards of four academic journals and is an associate editor of the Information Society. He edits the Annual Review of Technology for the Aspen Institute, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Communication and Information.

His policy research contributed to the Supreme Court's decision in Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission. In 1994, Dr. Schement served, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as director of the FCC's Information Policy Project. He has also served on advisory and steering committees for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and the Centers for Disease Control.

Dr. Schement is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Media Access Project, Libraries for the Future, and the Benton Foundation. He is also a member of advisory boards to the Advertising Council, the American Libraries Society Institute, as well as a participant in the National Latino Telecommunications Taskforce, and the Minority Media Telecommunications Council. He leads annual seminars at the Aspen Institute.

His interest in the history of printing led him to discover a discrepancy in chapter and line numbers between the 1667 and 1674 editions of Paradise Lost, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary. He also studies World War II history and the origins of information technologies. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife Anne, and children.

Irma Zardoya

NEW YORK BOARD OF EDUCATION

Irma Zardoya, born of and raised in the Bronx by Puerto Rican parents, has devoted twenty-five years of her adult life as a change agent in the improvement of education in New York City.

Ms. Zardoya is currently the Superintendent of Community School District 10 in the Bronx, the largest district in New York City with a population of 42,000 students. Under her direction, the district is firmly committed to its District Comprehensive Educational Plan that supports educational initiatives that will place District 10 in the forefront as an educationally progressive and successful district.

As Deputy Superintendent for four years in Community School District One on the Lower East Side, Ms. Zardoya was instrumental in the development of "schools of choice," an initiative that supported small learner centered nurturing environments for students. She has been very committed to the process of involving all constituencies in the development, planning and implementation of viable educational models.

Ms. Zardoya was principal of Community School 211, The Bilingual School for nine years. As principal she supported the development of this school as the first K-8 school in District 12 and collaborated with parents, community-based organizations and corporations such as Maidenform to provide students with an enriched curriculum model. Prior to becoming a principal, she was the Executive Assistant to the Superintendent of Community School District 12. She began her career as a bilingual professional assistant and after six months became a teacher for seven years.

Ms. Zardoya received an M.S. degree from City College in Supervision and Administration and a B.S. degree from Thomas More College, Fordham University. She was a member of the advisory group that developed the Principals' Institute at Bank Street College which addressed the need to recruit and develop minorities and women to become principals in the New York City educational system. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at Bank Street College and Long Island University.

Ms. Zardoya has been the recipient of numerous awards from organizations such as New York City Administrative Women in Education, the New York State Association for Bilingual Education and the NYC Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. She was recently given the Education Award at the 10th Annual New York State Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force Conference. She has participated in the Educational Policy Fellowship Program, Institute for Educational Leadership and has also served on the New York State Commissioner's Advisory Council on Bilingual Education and the Advisory Council for the Center for Educational Leadership of the New York Urban Coalition.

Ms. Zardoya has stated that the greatest goal she could strive for as an educator is having students become productive, life-long learners who are thinkers and problem solvers.