J.D., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia); LL.M. and S.J.D. in Environmental Law, Pace University. Adjunct professor of Energy, Natural Resources, and Climate Change Law at the Pace Law School, and former staff attorney for the Pace Law School’s Energy Project. Currently senior attorney, and formerly staff attorney, for Riverkeeper. Previously served as Deputy Director of the Program for Alternative Development for the Presidency of Colombia, and in private practice. Admitted to the bar of New York State and of Colombia. Contributing editor, to a recent book by the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, through Cambridge University Press. Articles in the Pace Environmental Law Review and the Environmental Law Reporter.

B.A. Cornell University, Ph.D. Duke University. Teaches creative nonfiction with emphases on documentary studies and hybrid-genre work at Ohio University and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town. Essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in Xantippe, PMC: Postmodern Culture, Typo, and The Colorado Review. She is the author of Giving Birth (Penguin Putnam). Taylor has worked as a producer and writer on a number of documentary films including "The Exiles" (on artists and intellectuals who fled Europe for the U.S. in the 1930s)which won an Emmy Award for historical programming, and she was a Co-Founder and Producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She is currently Senior Editor of /nor magazine and a Founding Co-Editor with Stephen Cope and Eula Biss of Essay Press an imprint dedicated to the publication of innovative and trans-generic non-fiction writing.

B.A., Haverford College; M.M., School of Music, Yale University. Composer and performer noted for live electronic and interactive computer music. Founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Alvin Curran, of Musica Elettronica Viva, Rome, 1966. Compositions for shakuhachi master Katsuya Yokoyama; pianists Aki Takahashi and Ursula Oppens; multimedia works with Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas, others. Works performed at Pompidou Center, Paris; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Almeida Theatre, London; Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Recordings include Blends; Golem: An Interactive Opera; Live at Merkin Hall: Duets with Anthony Braxton, Concerto Grosso; others. Awards: Prix Ars Electronica from Austrian Radio and Television (1987); commissions from Fromm Music Foundation (2004), Venice Biennale, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation; Fulbright grants to Italy and Japan. Received Guggenheim fellowship in 2002 to create opera, Z’vi, excerpts of which were performed at opening of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1988– )

Steven Tenenbom is a member of the Orion String Quartet. He has worked with composer Lukas Foss and jazz artist Chick Corea and appeared as a guest artist with the Guarneri and Emerson String Quartets, the Beaux Arts and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trios, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has performed as a soloist with the Utah Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and toured with the Brandenburg Ensemble throughout the United States and Japan. His festival credits include Mostly Mozart, Aspen, Ravinia, Marlboro, June Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel Fire, and Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. He is also a member of TASHI and the piano quartet Opus One. In addition to teaching at The Bard College Conservatory of Music, Tenenbom is on the faculties of New York's Mannes College of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. He has recorded on RCA Records with TASHI and the Guarneri String Quartet, and he can also be heard on the Arabesque, Delos, ECM, Marlboro Recording Society, and Sony Classical labels.