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Alan is an urban designer and architect with over 25 years of experience as a project manager for planning and urban design projects around the world. He has managed diverse teams of professionals in architecture, landscape architecture, real estate economics, transportation planning, and environmental engineering--having successfully reached consensus on design and planning issues, expediting approval processes, and gaining community support for both large- and small-scale projects. With a particular interest in community planning and historic preservation, Alan has completed numerous projects in many historic cities across New England and further afield. He has also worked on several major waterfront developments, including the Anacostia Waterfront Framework Plan in Washington, DC., recipient of an AIA Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design; and the redeveloped Shanghai Bund, winner of the MIPIM Asia Gold Award for Best Urban Regeneration Project.

Alan Palevsky grew up sailing on Great South Bay on Eastern Long Island. He started by crewing for his older brother in the Blue Jay Class in 1959, graduating to the Windmill in 1965. This boat was a Clark Mills design as the next boat up after the Optimist Pram. They took 2nd in the Windmill Nationals in 1968.

Alan R. Hoffman, translator, holds a BA degree in history from Yale University and a JD degree from Harvard Law School. Passionate about American history and Lafayette, he spent three years working on this first unabridged English translation of Auguste Levasseur's journal and readying it for publication. He is a member of the American Friends of Lafayette and the Massachusetts Lafayette Society, and he lectures on Lafayette.

Alan Rabinowitz is a world renowned big cat conservationist who created the world's first jaguar reserve in Belize after being the first scientist to place radio collars on jaguars to monitor their movements and document the jaguars territorial needs. Rabinowitz's pioneering work was highlighted in the National Geographic film In search of the Jaguar. His dream is to create a "Jaguar Corridor" which connects pieces of jaguar habitat from lower Mexico, through Central America, and through South America all the way to Argentina to ensure the vitality of jaguars as a species forever.

Professor Rogers' research and teaching focuses on the U.S. Constitution, American legal history, and the American Revolution. His most recent books are: *Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts*, *The Boston Strangler*, and *Boston: City on a Hill* (with Lisa J. Rogers). An article on State Constitutionalism and the Death Penalty, will be published in a forthcoming special issue of the *Journal of Policy History*. Rogers also has published articles in the* New England Quarterly*, the *Journal of the Early Republic*, and the *American Journal of Legal History*, among other scholarly journals. The undergraduate and graduate courses he teaches parallel his research interests: U.S. Constitutional History, I & II, The Bill of Rights, Anglo-American Law, (with Professor Robin Fleming), and "Atlantic World, a history core course. Rogers is the chair of the Seminar in Early American History, hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a member of the Adams Papers Executive Publication Committee. His current book project is titled Faith, Healing, and the First Amendment.

Alan Simpson graduated from Cody High School in Cody, Wyoming, in 1949 and attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1950. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science degree and in 1958 with a Juris Doctor degree. He served in the United States Army in Germany from 1955-1956 with the 10th Infantry Regiment, Fifth Infantry Division and with the 12th Armored Infantry Battalion,Second Armored Division. Simpson was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 7, 1978, but was appointed to the post early on January 1, 1979, following the resignation of Clifford P. Hansen. From 1985 to 1995, Simpson was the Republican whip in the Senate, having served with then Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. He was chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997 when Republicans regained control of the Senate. From 1997 to 2000, Simpson taught at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and served for two years as the Director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School.

Alan Solomont is the former United States Ambassador to Spain and Andora (2009-2013) and a lifelong social and political activist. He is currently the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. His Jewish community involvement includes serving on the boards of the Israel Policy Forum, the New Israel Fund, Jewish Fund for Justice, J Street and Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.

Alan has been the most visible Worcester presence, representing an ownership group which has worked tirelessly to bring quality professional baseball back to Worcester and Central Massachusetts. Prior to assuming these responsibilities, Alan was a pioneer in the New England legal recruitment field, and a practicing attorney. His background includes a pre-law career in public relations in New York City and Washington, DC. For the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, he traveled nationally with Jesse Owens, arranging Canadian/American media events with National Hockey League and North American Soccer League teams. Alan holds degrees from Tufts University, Boston College Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. For many years, Alan has been an active coach and participant in youth sports activities, particularly Weston (Mass.) Little League.

Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization studying U.S. economic, national security, and technology policy. Tonelson is also a columnist for the Foundation's globalization website, Tradealert.org and a Research Associate at the George Washington University Center for International Science and Technology Policy. Tonelson's book on globalization, *The Race to the Bottom*, was published in 2000. Tonelson comments on economic and foreign policy issues frequently for radio and television programs such as *The Newshour with Jim Lehrer* and *The Nightly Business Report*. His articles and reviews have appeared in many leading national publications, including *Foreign Affairs*, *The Atlantic*, *Foreign Policy*, *The New York Times*, and *The Washington Post*. Tonelson has also lectured frequently on these subjects at universities, government agencies, and civic and business groups in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan. A former Associate Editor of Foreign Policy and Fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, Tonelson holds a B.A. with highest honors in history from Princeton University.

Alan Schneider, tenor, has performed in opera, operetta, and music theatre productions with many groups in his native New England, including the North Shore Music Theatre, Opera New England, and Commonwealth Opera. Last season he made his Boston Lyric Opera debut as the Second Jew in Salome, and returned in September to sing the Comte de Lerme in Don Carlos.

Alan Wolfe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. He is the author and editor of more than 20 books, including, most recently, *The Future of Liberalism* (2009), *Does American Democracy Still Work?* (2006) *Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It *(2005), *The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Live our Faith* (2003), and *An Intellectual in Public* (2003). He is the author or editor of more than ten other books including *Marginalized in the Middle* (1997), *One Nation, After All* (1998), *Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice* (2001) and *School Choice: The Moral Debate* (2002). Both *One Nation, After All* and *Moral Freedom* were selected as *New York Times* Notable Books of the Year. Professor Wolfe attended Temple University as an undergraduate and received his doctorate in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. Wolfe currently chairs a task force of the American Political Science Association on Religion and Democracy in the United States.