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Christina Pascucci-Ciampa is the founder/owner of All She Wrote Books, located in Somerville, MA. All She Wrote Books is an intersectional, inclusive queer/feminist indie bookstore that supports, celebrates, and amplifies underrepresented voices through its thoughtfully curated selection of books spanning across all genres.

Christina Paxson is the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2000, she founded the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School. During her time as director of CHW, the center started undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in health and health policy, and took on the leadership of the University's Health Grand Challenges program. Paxson is a Senior Editor of *The Future of Children*; a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she is a member of the programs on Aging, Health, and Children; and a Research Associate of Princeton's Office of Population Research. Her research is on health, economic development and public policy, with a current focus on economic status and health outcomes over the life course in both developed and developing countries. She has been the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded studies, including "Economic Status, Public Policy, and Child Neglect", "Parental Resources and Child Wellbeing" and "College Education and Health", and was the founding director of an NIA Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at Princeton.

Christina Thompson is the editor of *Harvard Review* and the author of a memoir, *Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All*, which the *Philadelphia Inquirer* described as “a moving examination of exploration--both inner and outer--and the way our travels into remote places on Earth can become travels into the remote places in our hearts and souls. ” Her essays and criticism have appeared in *Vogue*, the *Boston Globe*, the *American Scholar*, and the 1999, 2000, and 2006 editions of *Best Australian Essays*. A recent recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Literature Board of the Australia Council, she teaches in the Writing Program at Harvard University Extension, where she was awarded the 2008 James E. Conway Excellence in Teaching Writing Award.

Christina Tucker is a co-host of Unfriendly Black Hotties, a podcast devoted to examining the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in higher ed, pop culture, and politics. Follow her on Twitter at [@C\_GraceT](https://twitter.com/C\_GraceT "")

Yu Yu was born and raised in China and attended Wellesley College for her undergraduate studies. She earned her master’s degree from Boston University and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, with a dissertation focused on paintings from China’s Yuan dynasty. Yu Yu is fluent in Chinese, Japanese and English, and her scholarship on Chinese art has appeared in numerous publications. Yu Yu was selected for the MFA position following an international search. Named director of the USC Pacific Asia Museum in 2014, she led the institution’s transition following a merger with the University of Southern California. In addition to providing a new vision for exhibitions, acquisitions and programs, she spearheaded USC PAM’s first complete inventory and survey of its collection and developed a master plan for a large-scale renovation to transform the museum building from an early 20th-century private residence into a 21st-century public space. Under her tenure, Phase 1, a seismic retrofit, of the master plan, was completed late last year. Yu Yu also led USC PAM’s efforts to advance public programs and broaden local outreach, working to build a bridge between the Pasadena community and students and faculty at USC. Image: [www.twitter.com](https://twitter.com/yuyuchristina?lang=en "Christina Yu Yu")

Christine Clements is a licensed architect in Massachusetts with more than 15 years of experience in design and construction. She’s done laboratory design work for university clients including Boston University, Vassar, Tufts, and MIT. She then grew into project management for clients including Harvard Law School; international mega projects in healthcare and office buildings; state transportation projects; and the industrial sector. Most recently she’sconcentrated on pro bono work, including historic preservation at the Old North Church, policy engagement with elected representatives, and serving as treasurer on a couple of boards. Since 2016 she’s been a member at Bay State Commons Cohousing and co-chair of their Design Committee. BSC is a group of owner/investors developing their own neighborhood, doing all the work that a traditional developer would do: site search and acquisition, architect and contractor selection, hiring legal and other consultants, member recruitment, pursuing permit approvals, securing bank financing for both land purchase and construction contracts.

Christine DeLucia is Associate Professor of History at Williams College and author of Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, published by Yale University Press in 2018, which received the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians book award. She researches and teaches courses on early American history, Native American and Indigenous Studies, cartography, material culture, cross-cultural communications, memory and representations, and related topics.

Christine Hamel is an actor, voice coach, director, and scholar whose work focuses on the politics of voice, emotion, and embodiment.

Christine Lahti is an American actress and director who has worked on many television series and was nominated for an Academy Award for her Best Supporting Actress role in Swing Shift. She is also author of "True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A feminist Coming of Age."

**Christine Rosen** is a senior editor of [The New Atlantis](www.thenewatlantis.com ""), where she writes about the social and cultural impact of technology, as well as bioethics and the history of genetics. Ms. Rosen’s past books have included Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, a history of the ethical and religious debates surrounding the eugenics movement in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2004), and My Fundamentalist Education, the story of a Christian fundamentalist school in Florida (PublicAffairs, 2005). She is the editor of Acculturated, a web magazine dedicated to pop culture and virtue that grew out of the book Acculturated (Templeton, 2011), which Ms. Rosen edited (with Naomi Schaefer Riley). She is a former Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation, and she also writes a monthly column for Commentary magazine, called “The Way We Live Now.” Ms. Rosen’s essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, The American Historical Review, and The New England Journal of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Emory University and is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She lives with her children in Washington, D.C.