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Do you live in a Community? Not where your body resides, but where your mind connects? What’s a community? It’s more than your friendly neighborhood or favorite Chat Room. The word "Community" may sound archaic, a social remnant of the idyllic 1950s. But paradoxically in our high-tech age of instant information, "Community" is more relevant than ever, though its broader boundaries and greater diversities may surprise you. We explore communities in all forms, from political and social to scientific and technological.

Participants: Chapman, Hubbard, Jayaraman, McWhorter, Tyson

	Bruce Chapman is founder and president of Discovery Institute, a public policy think tank in Seattle. From 1981-1983, he was Director of the United States Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. Later, he served as Deputy Assistant to President Reagan, from which position he directed the White House Office of Planning and Evaluation. In 1985, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna, Austria, serving until 1988. He received the State Department's Superior Honor Award at the end of his service.
	Barbara Marx Hubbard is a world-renowned futurist, citizen diplomat, social architect, and global politician. She is founder of the Center for Conscious Evolution and a founding board member of The World Future Society. She is the author of The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium and Conscious Evolution.
	Saru Jayaraman is the national founder of WYSE: Women and Youth Supporting Each Other and is quoted frequently in the media on matters of women and other social issues. While an undergraduate at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), she was recognized as one of the top three students in the entire nation. She is now at Yale Law School.
	John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley where he also held an appointment in the Department of African-American Studies. Specializing in Creole languages and sociolinguistics, he has written and spoken widely about the Ebonics controversy, the use of Black English in education, and affirmative action.
	Neil deGrasse Tyson is Visiting Research Scientist in the department of astrophysics at Princeton University. He is also Director of the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He is the author of several popular books on science, including Just Visiting This Planet and Universe Down to Earth.
	Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator and host of the Closer To Truth television series and author of the Closer To Truth book. Trained in brain research (Ph.D. UCLA), he has published more than twenty books, including the Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers and the seven-volume Library of Investment Banking. He is the president of The Geneva Companies, a leading merger and acquisition firm for private, middle market businesses.
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