ITF advisory board members:

	Kamran Elahian	Global Catalyst Partners - Venture Capitalist, Managing Principal
	Faraj Aalaei	Centillium communications - CEO & Co-Founder
	Ramin Farjad	Corporate Development Officer; SiliconIran, Inc. and Co-founder;Velio Comm. Inc.
	Abbas Masnavi	Cisco Systems - Principal Network Architect
	Ali Sajassi	Cisco Systems - System architect
	Lip-Bu Tan	Walden International - Chairman and founder
	Behrooz Rezvani	Ikanos - Founder and CTO
	Ali Sarabi	Oresis Communications - Chairman of the Board, President and CEO

ITF MC:

Davar Ardalan - Producer, All Things Considered®

Davar Ardalan is a Producer based in Washington, D.C. From breaking news to documentary style features, Ardalan's productions are among the signature pieces heard on NPR. Ardalan's work spans the tribulations of foster care to true stories from the National Story Project with novelist
Paul Auster. Her feature profiles include actor Paul Newman; San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown; and World Wrestling Federation's "Mankind". In April of 2002, she received a Gracie award from the American Women in Radio and
Television for her documentary "Loss and Its Aftermath", the story of Israeli and Palestinian parents speaking about the death of their children
in the conflict.

In 1991, Ardalan was a reporter at KUNM-FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She produced award-winning cultural and news stories on health and environmental concerns in Los Alamos for which she won first place in documentaries from the Associated Press in New Mexico. Her production credits also include executive producer of International Women's Day and "Visions of Enchantment," a 30-minute program about Chinese, Puerto Rican, and South African women living in Albuquerque -- their culture back home and the
customs they brought with them.

Prior to 1991, Ardalan served first as intern and later assistant producer at both ABC affiliate KOAT-TV and PBS affiliate KNME-TV. She also worked for the University of New Mexico producing educational videos training teachers of Native American students to integrate art into reading and writing.

Upon arriving at NPR in 1993, Ardalan worked as a production assistant on all NPR's newsmagazines. In 1995, she co-produced with correspondent Lynn Neary a series on the growth of Islam in America and conducted research, field, and studio production. She also produced with correspondent Jacki Lyden "Iran at the Crossroads" and recently completed a series on Islam and Cyberspace.

Her honors include two first place Associated Press awards in the categories of documentaries and investigative news in New Mexico; third place winner in the William Randolph Hearst National Broadcast Competition; and YMCA nominee for Women on the Move.

Ardalan earned her B.A. in Communications and Journalism from the University of New Mexico. She was born in San Francisco and has also lived and worked in Iran where she attended Iranzamin International School. She graduated from Brookline High School in 1982. Away from NPR, she is the mother of four -- Saied, Samira, Aman, and Amir -- who range in age from toddler to teenager.