Alan Goodman, vice president of academic affairs/dean of faculty and professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), teaches and writes on the health and nutritional consequences of political-economic, processes such as poverty, inequality, and racism. He is nationally recognized as the co-director one of the American Anthropological Association's public education project, “Race: Are we so different?”, which includes a traveling exhibit and a website (http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html). Goodman is also past president of the American Anthropological Association. Dr. Goodman is the author of many books and articles on race and society among them: “Why Genes don’t count for racial differences in public health”(AJPH) and book such as “Anthropology and Science: Beyond the two culture divide", "Genetic nature/culture" and the forthcoming "Race: Are We So Different?". Dr. Goodman is also a former postdoctoral fellow of the University of Connecticut.