Robert E. Daniels is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He is most interested in Social Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Systems Theory, Cross-Cultural Studies, and Africa. Dr. Daniels’ first fieldwork experience was with the Oglala Lakota (Western Sioux) on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, resulting in a paper analyzing the multiple, and often contradictory, social and cultural identities that mark reservation life. He then conducted field research with the Kipsigis of Kenya and became the Field Director of the Child Development Research Unit at the University of Nairobi. Currently Dr. Daniels is interested in developing the use of cybernetic and ecological models to anthropological data, particularly African ethnology, the relationships between individual minds and cultural patterns, age-set systems, ethnic boundaries, and the influence of the nature of information exchange on such social processes.

Janet West Schrock, daughter of Heifer International Founder Dan West, serves as Senior Advisor for Heifer International. As a leading development organization, Heifer International has provided livestock and training for communities around the world and in the United States for over 6 decades. Schrock taught for 22 years (17 years in Maine), founded a night school program for learning disabled adults in Washington, DC, and taught English in China. She directed the volunteer service program for the Church of the Brethren and directed the AmeriCorps program for the National Council of Churches.

Since 1999, Schrock has worked for Heifer International, first as Director of Church and Community Relations and currently with Heifer's Education Department. She provides workshops, presentations and has participated in and led study tours to India, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, China, Poland, and projects in the US.

Bob Compton epitomizes the term ‘Renaissance Man.' His track record of success and his passion for new ventures are unyielding. A Harvard Business School graduate with an honorary Doctorate from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Compton has spent most of his career as a professional venture capital investor specializing in start-up technology companies, primarily medical tech and software. He has served on the boards of over a dozen non-profit organizations, including as a Trustee of the Kauffman Foundation, a $1.8 billion foundation dedicated to accelerating entrepreneurship.

Compton 's latest endeavors include global traveler, author, record producer, photographer and film-maker. Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination is his first documentary film which was released this year. The film follows 2 high school seniors in India , China and the U.S. to compare and contrast the high school experiences in each country. How kids spend their time during high school – approximately 4 years, or two million minutes - in each culture is radically different and has profound implications for America 's economy in the decades ahead.

Eriberto P. "Fuji" Lozada Jr. is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Asian Studies at Davidson College, North Carolina, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the School for Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University in Shanghai. He is a sociocultural anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in both rural and urban China, but his most recent work has been located in Shanghai. Fuji has also taught and lived in Korea and Japan. He has published on a wide array of topics on contemporary issues in Chinese society and Asian-American issues, ranging from religion and politics, popular culture and globalization, sports and society issues, and the cultural impact of science and technology. When not teaching or spending time with his anthropologist wife Rebecca Ruhlen and their two children, Fuji can usually be found either on the sidelines of a men’s lacrosse field (as head coach of the Davidson College Men’s Lacrosse team) or on the field as a NCAA and high school lacrosse referee.