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About the Authors xiGeography Test Development Committee (2006%u20132010) and served as president of the National Council for Geographic Education during 2019%u20132020. He is also past-president of the Connecticut Council of Social Studies. where he worked to promote social studies education at the state level. Ken is one of three co-founders of iScore5 LLC, an AP %u00ae test prep app for smart devices. Ken and his wife, Lisa, moved from Danbury, Connecticut, to Georgia in 2013, and though they prefer the beautiful Georgia weather, they brought their New Yorker roots (and Mets caps) with them. Roderick P. Neumann Roderick P. Neumann is the co-author of the college- level introductory textbook, Contemporary Human Geography (2e), from which Human Geography for the AP%u00ae Course was derived. He is currently professor of geography in the department of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University. Early in his tenure there, Rod led the department%u2019s effort to establish a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography. In that role, he oversaw the drafting of the first curriculum and created and taught many new geography courses. He particularly enjoys teaching the introduction to human geography course on a regular basis. Rod%u2019s research has taken him to East Africa, western Europe, and the U.S. West. Some of this research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science Research Council and has been published in leading geography journals, such as Progress in Human Geography , Cultural Geographies , and Political Geography . His books include Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihoods and Nature Preservation in Africa (1998), Making Political Ecology (2005), and The Commercialization of Non-Timber Forest Products with Eric Hirsch (2000). of geography courses, including introductory human geography, population geography, world regional geography, geography of East Asia, spatial data analysis, and geographic information systems (GIS). Max has been involved in AP %u00ae Human Geography for more than two decades. A chance encounter with an AP %u00ae teacher and reader led him to his first AP%u00ae %u00a0 Reading in Clemson, South Carolina, in 2003, the third year after the AP%u00ae Human Geography course was created. Since then, he has read the APHG exam every year except for one, filling roles as a reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader. From 2007 to 2015, Max served on the College Board%u2019s AP %u00ae Human Geography Test Development Committee and was co-chair for the last three years of his service. As a College Board- certified consultant, he has also taught AP %u00ae Human Geography workshops and summer institutes around the United States since 2007. An interesting fact about Max%u2019s life as a geographer is that since the mid-1980s, he has lived along the 40th parallel north in three different places: Beijing, China; Bloomington, Indiana; and Manhattan, Kansas, where he currently lives with his family. Kenneth H. Keller Kenneth H. Keller is a retired AP %u00ae Human Geography teacher at George Walton Comprehensive High School in Marietta, Georgia, and taught AP %u00aeHuman Geography from its inception in 2000 until 2023. Ken has attended every AP %u00ae Human Geography Reading since 2002, where he has worked in multiple capacities, including his current role as Question Leader. He has been teaching AP %u00ae Human Geography weeklong summer institutes and one-day workshops for teachers since 2004 and was the 2004 recipient of a National Council for Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching Award. Ken also taught as an adjunct professor of geography for five years at Western Connecticut State University. Ken is a past member of the AP %u00ae Human Ken KellerGail Hollander%u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.