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Chris Bentley is a freelance journalist based in Boston. Follow him on Twitter at @Cementley and on his website, cabentley.com.

Chris Berdik has been a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly and a research editor at the investigative magazine, Mother Jones. As a freelance journalist, his writing has appeared in Popular Science, Wired, New Scientist, the NYT, the WP, Salon, Politico, Slate, the Boston Globe, among other publications. His latest book is CLAMOR: How Noise Took Over and How We Can Take It Back.

manager, multimedia development, MIT Libraries

Chris Burrell is an investigative reporter at the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting. Feedback? Questions? Story ideas? Reach out to Chris at christopher.burrell@gbh.org.

Under the direction of the Deputy Director for Climate Change & Environmental Planning, Chris manages and conducts planning initiatives for specific city neighborhoods throughout the City of Boston with an emphasis on initiatives related to the waterfront and the watersheet. He conducts planning, urban design environmental regulation and zoning research and studies. Chris also engages community and other constituencies to solicit input and feedback. Image: [Boston Plans](http://www.bostonplans.org/about-us/staff/staff-detail?id=988 "bostonplans")

Chris Carey was taught watch repair as a boy by his grandfather, Pat Caruso, a watchmaker at Waltham Watch Company. In 1993 he opened his own clock and watch repair shop, Watertown Watch and Clock, and now operates the shop with his wife, Christine, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Chris has served as the Secretary of The American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute (AWCI), he is the Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Watchmakers-Clockmakers Association, and is Past President of NAWCC New England Chapter 8.

Christopher Castellani was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. His parents immigrated to the United States from a small village in Italy in the years following World War II, and their experiences have been a significant inspiration. *A Kiss From Maddalena*, Christopher's first novel, was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in April 2003, and subsequently was published in Australia, the UK, The Netherlands, Germany and Thailand. In 2004, Christopher was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction for *A Kiss from Maddalena*. *The Saint of Lost Things* is his second novel. Chris was educated at Swarthmore College, received his Masters in English Literature from Tufts University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Boston University. He is currently at work on his third novel--the final in this three-volume series. Castellani lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he is the Artistic Director of grub street, a Boston-based non-profit creative writing center.

Chris Cato is a board member on the United South End Settlements and a life-long resident of Boston's South End.

Chris Cleave has been a barman, a long-distance sailor and teacher of marine navigation, and a journalist.

Chris Csikszentmihalyi is the director of MIT's Center for Future Civic Media. He is the founder of two other prominent Washington-based organizations in the field of money and politics -- the Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign -- and a nationally recognized expert on transparency and the influence of money in politics. Trained as an artist, Chris Csikszentmihalyi has worked in the intersection of new technologies, media and the arts for 16 years, lecturing, showing new media work and presenting installations on five continents and one subcontinent. Chris is a 2005 Rockefeller New Media Fellow and a 2007-08 fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He taught at the University of California at San Diego, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at Turku University. Currently, he is the Director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. Csikszentmihalyi's Computing Culture research group is known for developing political technologies that rebalance power between citizens, corporations and governments. Their efforts include the Afghan Explorer, a tele-operated robot journalist designed to bypass Pentagon and Taliban press censorship, and txtMob, a mobile phone based activist system that enabled highly effective protests at the 2004 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. He is currently working on extrAct, which will bring software-based tools for collective action to communities affected by oil and natural gas drilling.

Chris Dempsey, a Brookline native, is the director of Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA), a non-profit coalition of 50 organizations focused on transportation policy and backed by the Barr Foundation. Dempsey previously served as assistant secretary of transportation under Gov. Deval Patrick and future Boston 2024 chief executive Rich Davey. Photo: [ANDY LAUB](http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/01/10/chris-dempsey-transportation-for-massachusetts/ "Boston Magazine")

Chris Dodd was born May 27, 1944, in Willimantic, Connecticut, to the late Senator Thomas J. Dodd and Grace Murphy Dodd. From his childhood, he was taught the virtue of public service, of service to country; Chris' father was one of the lead prosecutors during the Nuremberg Nazi war crimes tribunals that set the standard for America's moral authority. In 1958, Thomas Dodd was elected from Connecticut to the United States Senate. Three of Chris Dodds aunts were well-known public school teachers in small communities. Forty-six years ago, Chris stood on the East Front of the Capitol and heard John Kennedy's inaugural address which called upon all Americans to become a part of something greater than themselves, which famously challenged us to ask what we could do for our nation. After graduating from Providence College, Chris joined the United States Peace Corps in 1966 and moved to the Dominican Republic where he built a school and a maternity clinic in rural communities, became fluent in Spanish, and saw what the world could achieve when America leads. Upon fulfilling his two-year commitment to the Peace Corps, Chris returned home to enlist in the Army National Guard, later serving in the US Army Reserves. In 1972, earning his law degree from the University of Louisville School of Law, Chris returned to Connecticut, building a law practice in New London. Soon, however, like his father before him, he was called to public service. Elected to Congress in 1974, Chris served three terms in the House of Representatives on behalf of Connecticut's Second District. He was elected to the US Senate in 1980.