Nicholas V. Longo is Chair of Global Studies and Professor of Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College. Nick is author of "Why Community Matters: Connecting Education with Civic Life" (SUNY Press), co-editor of "From Command to Community: A New Approach to Leadership Education in Colleges and Universities" (Tufts University Press), and co-editor of a forthcoming book on deliberative pedagogy. Nick lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife, Aleida. Together, they have a great passion for educating the next generation of democratic citizens, starting with their children, Maya and Noah.

EDWARD ZLOTKOWSKI received his B.A. in English and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. He is Professor of English at Bentley College and in 1990 founded the Bentley Service-Learning Project, an institution-wide program that involves all of the college's undergraduate academic departments, more than a quarter of its full-time faculty, and several thousand students. Zlotkowski has lectured and written on a variety of service-learning topics. He has consulted to Campus Compact and the Massachusetts Commission on Community Services as well as to individual colleges and universities across the country. As a Senior Associate at the American Association for Higher Education, he serves as general editor of a new monograph series exploring the relationship between service-learning and individual academic disciplines.