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Cultivating the Greater Self Speakers Virginia Benson is Senior Research Fellow at the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue. She served as executive director of the Center from its founding in 1993 to 2009. Before joining the Center, Benson co-directed a Boston-based public policy institute, which she helped to establish in 1987. During the early 1980s she worked in publishing in New York City; and during the 1970s she worked in Washington, DC, where she served as a legislative researcher in the House of Representatives, a financial analyst in the Treasury Department, and an urban policy aide in the Carter White House. Ann Diller is Professor of Education and Director of Doctoral Studies at the University of New Hampshire, where she holds the UNH Lindberg Award for Outstanding Teacher-Scholar. She is a past president of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES). Her publications include: The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy and Politics; her PES Presidential Address "Facing the Torpedo Fish: Becoming a Philosopher of One's Own Education"; and "The Search for Wise Love in Education: What Can We Learn from the Brahmaviharas?" in Teaching, Learning, and Loving (ed. by D. Liston and J. Garrison). Her current research investigates the intersections between pressing issues in western education and perspectives to be gleaned from eastern traditions such as Buddhism. Bernice Lerner is an author, speaker, and consultant. As Director of Adult Learning at Hebrew College, Lerner oversees intensive and innovative educational programs throughout the Greater Boston area. She is also a Senior Scholar at the Center for Character and Social Responsibility (formerly the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character) at Boston University’s School of Education. She is the author of The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors’ Lives and co-editor of Great Lives, Vital Lessons: A Character Education Curriculum Resource. Lerner is presently working on a dual biography of Rachel Genuth, a child survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, liberator of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Lou Marinoff is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at The City College of New York. He is also founding president of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, and editor of its journal Philosophical Practice. Marinoff has authored internationally bestselling books (including Plato Not Prozac, translated into twenty-seven languages) that apply philosophy to the resolution of everyday problems. He has collaborated with global think-tanks and leadership forums such as the Aspen Institute, Biovision (Lyon), Festival of Thinkers (Abu Dhabi), Horasis (Geneva), Strategic Foresight Group (Mumbai), and the World Economic Forum (Davos). His dialogue with Daisaku Ikeda was published in Japan in 2011. The English-language version, Who Governs Truth?, is forthcoming from Dialogue Path Press in 2012. Marinoff's avocations include nature photography and classical guitar.
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