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Dan Norland is a high school history teacher and co-editor of the book Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo. Witnesses shares the powerful stories of two men, Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir, who were wrongfully imprisoned and tortured in the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay before winning a landmark Supreme Court case and ultimately their freedom. In this talk, Dan discusses why we must not only close the Guantanamo gulag but also repair the mindset that enabled its existence in the first place. Dan Norland is a high school history and civics teacher in San Diego, California, where he teaches a course titled “Justice & Injustice” to eleventh and twelfth graders. Before becoming a teacher, Dan was an attorney at WilmerHale in Boston, where he had the opportunity to work on pro bono matters including a death penalty appeal and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” While at WilmerHale, Dan’s colleagues introduced him to two men, Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir, who had been wrongfully detained in the notorious military prison at Guantanamo Bay for seven years before winning a landmark Supreme Court case and establishing their innocence. Dan met Lakhdar and Mustafa and helped them write their memoirs, Witnesses of the Unseen (see www.WitnessesBook.com). Email: [email protected] This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx