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Charles Vert Willie is the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus. He is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life. Before coming to HGSE, he was chairman of the Department of Sociology and vice president of student affairs at Syracuse University. He was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the President's Commission on Mental Health and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council. He also has served as vice president of the American Sociological Association and president of the Eastern Sociological Society. Willie has served as a consultant, expert witness, and court-appointed master in major school desegregation cases in larger cities such as Boston, Hartford, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Little Rock, Milwaukee, San Jose, Seattle, and St. Louis; and in other municipalities such as St. Lucie County and Lee County, Florida, and Somerville, Cambridge, and Brockton, Massachusetts. Willie is the author or editor of over 100 articles and 30 books on issues of race, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, education, urban communities, and family relations. Willie identifies himself as an applied sociologist who is concerned with solving social problems.

Charlie Anders is the author of the novel *Choir Boy* (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of the anthology *She's Such A Geek* (Seal Press, 2006) and the science fiction blog io9. She is the publisher of *other magazine*, the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts". She was winner of a 2005 Lambda Literary Award. Her writing has appeared in Salon.com, *The Wall Street Journal*, *Publishers Weekly*, *The San Francisco Bay Guardian*, and the *New York Press*, as well as in two dozen anthologies, including *Pills Chills Thrills & Heartache*, *It's All Good! and Paraspheres: New Wave Fabulist Fiction*. She is also the presenter of Writers With Drinks, a monthly literary night held in San Francisco featuring local writers and performers.

Charlie David has been a host for *E! Television, NBC, OutTV, here! TV, Pink TV, EGO,* and *Life Network* on such shows as "F.Y.E!" (2001), "Spy TV" (2001), "Bump!" (2004) (2005-2006) and "Crash Test Mommy" (2004) (2004-2005). He has been the subject of a documentary on the Learning Channel and has appeared as musical guest on VH1, BBC, CBS's The Early Show, and dozens of radio shows. Charlie's writing has been featured in *National Youth Ambassador *and *BoyCrazy! Magazines*. The latter culminated in a guest appearance on NBC's "The Other Half" (2001) with Dick Clark, Danny Bonaduce, and Mario Lopez. Formerly in a boy band, Charlie opened for Destiny's Child, Pink, Snoop Dogg, Rick Springfield and The Black Eyed Peas. Charlie's writing has been published by *Instinct, National Youth Ambassador, Adventure Women, Outlooks and BoyCrazy! magazines and AfterElton.com.* The Cold Reading Series in Vancouver, Canada awarded Charlie 'Best Feature Screenplay' for Mulligans and 'Best Short Screenplay' for Narcissus. He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts and resides in Los Angeles, California and Victoria, British Columbia.

Charlie Desjardins is the fall 2025 intern with GBH’s Under the Radar.

Charlie Peters was the founder and editor of *The Washington Monthly*. He retired after 32 years in 2001 and is now the president of Understanding Government, a foundation that is dedicated to better journalism and scholarship about executive branch agencies.

Charlie Pierce covers sports for The Boston Globe Magazine. A long time sportswriter and columnist, Pierce has written for nationally recognized publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Esquire and GQ magazines. Hes is a frequent guest on NPR's nationally syndicated shows Only A Game, and Wait, Wait Dont Tell Me. He has also been a guest on ESPN's Around the Horn. Pierce has been a member of the Globe staff since 2002.

Charlie Rose is the Emmy-award winning host of the PBS program, Charlie Rose Show.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage is a Washington correspondent for *the New York Times*. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Savage graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1998 and later earned a masters degree from Yale Law School while on a Knight Foundation journalism fellowship. He began his career as a local government and politics reporter for the *Miami Herald*, and covered national legal affairs for the *Boston Globe* from 2003 to 2008 before moving to* the Times*. Savage lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, the journalist Luiza Ch. Savage. His articles in the *Boston Globe* received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the American Bar Associations Silver Gavel Award, and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Savages book about the growth of executive power, *Takeover*, was named one of the best books of 2007 by both* Slate* and *Esquire*. The book also received the Award for Constitutional Commentary by the bipartisan Constitution Project and the New York Public Librarys Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Charles Sennott, founder and Editor of The GroundTruth Project, is an award-winning correspondent, best-selling author and editor with 30 years of experience in international, national and local journalism. A leading social entrepreneur in new media, Sennott launched the non-profit organization's new, local reporting initiative, Report for America in 2017. He is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Charlotte Blake Alston is a Philadelphia-based storyteller, narrator, and singer with an interest in literature. After 21 years of teaching from the preschool through graduate levels, Charlotte chose to devote more time to touring and performing. She brings her stories and songs to national and regional festivals, schools, universities, museums, libraries and performing arts centers throughout the United States and Canada, as well as local and national radio and television. Charlotte is the first storyteller to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra on both their Children's and Youth concert series. Since 1994, she has been the host of "Sound All Around"; the orchestra's pre-school concert series and continues to appear as a guest host and narrator on family concerts. Charlotte also hosts "Carnegie Kids", Carnegie Hall's Preschool concert series and has been a featured artist on the Carnegie Hall Family Concert Series in NY since 1996. She has been a featured artist at both the Presidential Inaugural Festivities in Washington, DC and the Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Children's Inaugural Celebrations in Harrisburg, PA. Charlotte's narrative voice can be heard on documentaries including *Plenty Of Good Women Dancers*, *The Peddie School*, and *Crosstown*. She herself was featured in the award-winning documentary *Family Name* that aired around the country on PBS. She is a regular guest reader on WNYC New York's *Prime time with PJ*. Charlotte has received numerous honors including the prestigious Pew Fellowship In The Arts in 1994. She was selected as Philadelphia Magazine's "Best Of Philly" 1995. She is the recipient of the 1997 Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania Artist Of The Year Award (The Hazlett Memorial Award). She holds two honorary PhD's from Seton Hill and LaRoche colleges respectively and was one of four Americans selected to perform and present at the first International Storytelling Field Conference in Ghana in August of 1999. She was the Director of "In the Tradition" 14th National Festival Of Black Storytelling in 1996.

Charlotte Carrington-Farmer is a Professor of History at Roger Williams University, and she specializes in early American History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2010. She has published biographies of Thomas Morton and Roger Williams in edited collections. She has a forthcoming book, Roger Williams and His World, coming out this fall with Broadview Press and a forthcoming article on Mary Williams in the New England Quarterly, entitled: “More than Roger’s Wife: Mary Williams and the Founding of Providence.”

Charlotte Dennett is an author and attorney who has been practicing law since 1997, with an emphasis on personal injury litigation and suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act. She's also been a reporter in the Middle East and is the coauthor with her husband, Gerard Colby, of *Thy Will Be Done-The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil*. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Vermont.

Charlotte Golar Richie has spent 25 years in government — as a former state legislator, civil rights commissioner, housing chief & neighborhood development director. Since her ground-breaking campaign in 2013 as the first African American woman to run for Mayor of Boston, Charlotte has dedicated her time to board and philanthropic activities, and uplifting the leadership efforts of women and people of color.