Condoleezza Rice is Professor of Political Economy in the Graduate School of Business, Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

From January 2005 to 2009, she served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States. Before serving as America's chief diplomat, she served as assistant to the president for national security affairs (national security advisor) from January 2001 to 2005.

Rice joined the Stanford University faculty as a professor of political science in 1981 and served as Stanford University's provost from 1993 to 1999. She was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1991 to 1993 and returned to the Hoover Institution after serving as provost until 2001. As a professor, Rice won two of the highest teaching honors: the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

She is the author of the upcoming Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (October 2010), which shares how her upbringing in segregated Birmingham, Alabama -- along with her strong, caring family and parents -- helped to shape the course of her life. She has also has authored and co-authored several other books, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995), with Philip Zelikow; The Gorbachev Era (1986), with Alexander Dallin and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984).

Rice served as a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron, Charles Schwab and Transamerica corporations. She was a founding board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, Calif., and was vice president of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. She currently serves on the board of the Boys and Girls Club of America.

Rice has been involved in a number of humanitarian pursuits, most notably with PEPFAR (The President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief) and in creating and serving on the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Both endeavors increased aid to developing countries and the world's poorest, most disadvantaged populations. PEPFAR was the largest commitment of funds from any single nation to combat a single disease at any time in history and the Millennium Challenge Corporation promotes sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction.

She currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In addition, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rice earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981.

Bradley Myles currently serves as Polaris Project’s Executive Director and CEO. He has been working on combating the issue of human trafficking for the past eight years since 2002. In his current role at Polaris Project, he is responsible for over-seeing all the programmatic, financial, and operational areas of the organization, including leading the Executive Management Team and liaising with the Board of Directors. Mr. Myles works on all areas of Polaris Project’s comprehensive approach to fighting human trafficking, including over-seeing the direct victims services efforts of local offices in Washington, DC and New Jersey, supervising the policy team’s advocacy initiatives at the Federal and state levels, and providing strategic oversight for Polaris Project’s operation of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) hotline.

Mr. Myles has provided consultation, training, and technical assistance on anti-trafficking strategies to hundreds of audiences, including human trafficking task forces and coalitions across the nation, government agencies, Federal and local law enforcement, U.S. Members of Congress, media, service providers, and foreign delegations. He has also been a key advocate in bridging the national anti-trafficking program areas of multiple Federal government agencies in the U.S. Departments of State, Homeland Security, Justice, and Health and Human Services. Mr. Myles serves as Polaris Project’s primary liaison to the Humanity United-funded national coalition entitled the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST), the FBI Innocence Lost Federal Working Group, the U.S. Department of Justice National Advisory Group on trafficking, and the U.S. Department of Justice-funded Washington, DC Human Trafficking Task Force. His anti-trafficking efforts have been covered in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360.

Website: polarisproject.org

David Batstone is a Professor of Ethics at the University of San Fransicso and is one of the founders of the Not for Sale Campaign. After learning about victims of human trafficking in his local area, David traveled around the world researching the global slave trade and writing Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade- and How We Can Fight It. As President of the Not for Sale Campaign, David speaks at schools, churches, and universities across the country in order to promote the modern-day abolitionist movement through awareness, education, and sound economic practices. David will discuss the causes, prevalence and conditions of human trafficking and exploitation, as well as current grassroots efforts to end modern-day slavery.

Website: notforsalecampaign.org

Lieutenant John Vanek is the Program Manager of the San Jose Police Department Human Trafficking Task Force. The Task Force is one of 40 task forces funded through the U.S. Department of Justice, dedicated to identifying and rescuing trafficking victims, training law enforcement, and raising public awareness, using a multidisciplinary approach. The SJPD Task Force works in partnership with the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, a coalition of victim services providers. Additionally, the Task Force works closely with faith- and community-based organizations to combat human trafficking. Lt. Vanek is also a member of the U.S. DOJ Anti-Human Trafficking Planning Committee, and is involved in a variety of projects related to anti-human trafficking training, public outreach, and collaboration. Lt. Vanek's 24 years of law enforcement experience include Systems Development, Special Operations, Vice, Training, and the Sexual Assault Investigations Unit.

Sara received her Bachelor of Science degree in History and English in 1994 from Evangel University, a private Christian university in Springfield, Missouri. Sara spent four years teaching high school in Rosemount, Minnesota before recording her first album, Past the Wishing, in 1998. Since then, she has released eight more albums and appeared on several others. Sara has been nominated for three Dove Awards including "New Artist of the Year" in 2002 and "Special Event Album of the Year 2003" by the Gospel Music Association. She was named one of the best Christian music artists of 2005 and the album, Add to the Beauty, was named "Album of the Year" for 2005 by CCM Magazine.

Website: saragroves.com