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Colton Chapel
Lafayette College
111 Quad Drive
Easton, Pennsylvania, 18042
United States

Bonnie Winfield

Bonnie Winfield is an Expressive Arts Educator/ Facilitator and a social scientist specializing in the creative participation in Civic Life. She holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Social Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University with certificates in Peace and Women’s Studies. She is the Director of Community Partnerships at Lafayette College and the Founder of the Journey Home Re-entry Program for Women. She serves on many community boards and can be found in downtown Easton with her dog Clyde.

David Sun Kong

David Sun Kong, Ph.D. is a Synthetic Biologist, community organizer, musician, and photographer based in Lexington, MA. He conducted his graduate studies at MIT’s Media Laboratory, receiving a Ph.D. for demonstrating the first gene synthesis in a microfluidic (“lab-on-a-chip”) system. He was recognized as an emerging leader in synthetic biology as a "LEAP" fellow, served as a guest faculty member at the Marine Biology Lab in Woods Hole, MA, and is co-founder and managing faculty of "How To Grow (Almost) Anything,” an international course on biotechnology. He founded and chaired new Microfluidic and Hardware Tracks for the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (iGEM) and is the official iGEM DJ. He is currently the Director of a new Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Laboratory. Our mission is to empower communities around the world through biotechnology. David is also the founder and director of EMW, an art, technology, and community center in Cambridge, MA. EMW's mission is to empower marginalized communities through the transformative power of artistic expression. Our community programs explore expressive forms ranging from poetry to electronic music, beat boxing to bio-hacking and more. David is an award-winning vocal arranger and producer and has performed as a DJ, beat-boxer, vocalist, and rapper at hundreds of venues, including South by Southwest, the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and Brooklyn Bowl, where he opened for hip hop legend Questlove. His photography has been exhibited at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian and other galleries across the country.

Joe Raiola

In a mostly floundering career spanning four decades, Joe Raiola has not established himself as a comedian, comedy writer, speaker, or producer. He keeps doing all that stuff anyway. For an embarrassing 33 years, Joe has been a member of “The Usual Gang of Idiots” at MAD Magazine, churning out a steady stream of pointed political satire and pure silliness. As MAD Senior Editor, he continues to make funny noises in the hallway, which isn’t a problem he insists, “since I work at the only place in America where if you mature, you get fired.” As a performer, Joe continues to appear around the country in The Joy of Censorship, his un-acclaimed first amendment lecture program. Since 1993, he has somehow managed to present “Joy” at countless professional conferences, public libraries, colleges, and regional theaters in 44 states. As a producer, Joe is the driving creative force behind the Annual John Lennon Tribute charity concert in New York City. Now in its 37th year, it is the only ongoing Lennon Tribute concert in North America or Europe officially sanctioned by Yoko Ono. Joe produces the Tribute through Theatre Within, a grassroots non-profit he established in 2006, which provides music and meditation workshops to children who have lost a parent to cancer and adult cancer survivors.

John Shaw

After receiving a J.D. from Stanford Law School in1980, John practiced criminal law for nine years in Los Angeles, both as a prosecutor and a public defender. During his career as a trial lawyer, John handled several thousand cases and tried over one hundred jury trials, including numerous murders, rapes, and robberies. John’s fascination with human behavior led him to return to school to pursue a doctorate in psychology, and he earned an M.A. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1994) in social psychology from UCLA. For the past 20 years John has been on the faculty at Lafayette College, where he is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Head of the Psychology Department. Based on his experimental research on human behavior, including many studies on eyewitness memory, John has published numerous research articles in respected peer-reviewed journals. An experienced and accomplished teacher, John has taught a wide range of courses in psychology and on the ethics of genetic engineering, and he has received over a dozen teaching awards and honors at Lafayette. John recently published his debut novel, Death by DNA. John lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with his wife Carolyn, his children Carson and Kendall, two dogs, and a guinea pig.

Sigrid Fry-Revere

Sigrid Fry-Revere is president and CEO of the American Living Organ Donor Network, a (501(c)(3) living organ donor support organization. She is also the president of the Center for Ethical Solutions, a patient care ethics think tank, and the ethicist on the Washington Regional Transplant Community’s Organ and Tissue Advisory Committee. Sigrid has been a TEDMED speaker, authored four books, and written hundreds of articles. Her most recent book is a popular non-fiction adventure story The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran. She received both her law degree and her Ph.D. in bioethics at Georgetown University. She lives on a farm in Northern Virginia where she and her husband Bob raised their four children.