Laura here! OK, I am working on filling President Obama's cabinet because I just know he will ask me right away:
Google any of these folks if you're unfamiliar with them; you'll see how right I am!

Agriculture - Wendell Berry: Farmer and prolific author and advocate of local economies, Berry understands the detrimental changes in farming that are so damaging to our diets, our communities, and our culture.

Deputy Secretary of Agriculture - Michael Pollan: Pollan has an immense understanding of food policy and nutrition and the relationship between diet and health, and our health and government subsidies and policy.

Interior - Terry Tempest Williams: She's an eloquent writer and advocate for the environment in the western states.

Education - our own Tim Knowles - education hottie and evil genius progressive public schools reformer. He knows how to do this.

State - Samantha Power: She is an expert on genocide and the historical lack of U.S. intervention in genocide throughout history. She is the Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Her new book is a biography of Sergio Vieiro de Mella, the brilliant diplomat killed in Iraq in the U.N. bombing in 2003. Power is actually Obama's foreign policy advisor in his campaign already, and it was this choice of Obama's that turned me unequivocally to him as my choice.

Energy - Al Gore. 'Nuf said.

Health and Human Services - Dr. Paul Farmer: founder of Partners in Health, global health and social justice DOER (as opposed to talker). Any of his proteges at Partners in Health would probably be equal to the task, as he's kind of busy, I'm sure.

That's as far as I've gotten; I admit I'm pretty clueless on the transportation front and some others as well. Don't worry - all that's left is commerce, justice, defense, lavor, transportation, treasury, homeland security, veteran's affairs, housing and urban development. Let's go, people! My fantasy is the White House crawling with brilliant 40-somethings changing this planet.
Got any suggestions? Post them and I'll consider them, but make no promises.