Michael Szporer is professor of Communications at the University of Maryland University College, a member of the Board of Directors of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington D.C., and founding member of the American Polish Advisory Council (APAC).  In 2009, Dr. Szporer lectured before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Polish Sejm, at Harvard University and the Heritage Foundation, and was a speaker at the May 2010 Katyn Conference at Library of Congress. A Fulbright scholar, Dr. Szporer has authored numerous journalistic and academic publications, including the forthcoming book, Solidarnosc: the Strike that Ended Communism from Oxford University Press, 2010.