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Christopher Keyser is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. After graduating, he became a political speechwriter and served as the chief speechwriter for Governor Bruce Babbitt’s presidential campaign in 1988. Starting his screenwriting career in 1988, Keyser’s credits include Benefit of the Doubt for Miramax and the independent film Highland Park, which was completed this year. He is currently preparing to direct his own script, A Great Education. In television, he writes with a partner, Amy Lippman. Together, they have worked on series ranging from L.A. Law to Equal Justice and Sisters. In 1994, they created the drama series Party of Five, which ran for six years on Fox and won, among other honors, the Golden Globe for Best Drama and the Humanitas Prize. Keyser and Lippman went on to create such shows as Time of Your Life and Significant Others. This past September, their latest series, Lone Star, premiered on Fox. Mr. Keyser is also a partner in the political media company First Tuesday. He serves on the Boards of the Curtis School and of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues, as well as on the Board of Trustees of the I Have a Dream Foundation, Los Angeles.

Christopher Kimball founded *Cook's* magazine, a national magazine for cooking hobbyists, in 1980 and served as publisher and editorial director through 1989. In 1984, Chris founded the Who's Who of Cooking in America, to honor leading American chefs, restaurateurs, vintners, food writers, and food producers. In 1993, Chris relaunched Cook's magazine as* Cook's Illustrated* and in 2005 founded *Cook's Country*. Chris serves as publisher and editor of both magazines. Chris is also the host of *America's Test Kitchen*, a public television cooking show now in its eighth season. He is also the host and executive producer of a new TV show, *Cook's Country*, which aired with its first season in September 2008. Chris is a regular contributor to *NBC's The Today Show* and *The CBS Early Show* and has been featured in many publications, including *The New Yorker*, *The Wall Street Journal*, *The New York Times*, *People* magazine, *The New York Times Book Review*, *The Washington Post*, and *The Los Angeles Times*. Chris is also a columnist for the Boston-based TAB newspaper group. He was inducted into the Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America in 1996. He is also the author of *The Cook's Bible*, *The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook*, *Dear Charlie* (Christopher Award Winner), *The Dessert Bible*, and *The Kitchen Detective*. He lives in Boston and Vermont with his wife, Adrienne, daughters Whitney, Caroline, and Emily, and son, Charles.

Christopher Klein is an author and freelance writer specializing in history, travel, and sports. His lively stories seek to sweep away the cobwebs from the dusty corners of our collective history and explore fascinating locales a little off the beaten path. Christopher is a frequent contributor to the travel pages of The Boston Globe and the Globe-trotting blog on Boston.com. His articles have also appeared in National Geographic Traveler, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, Red Sox Magazine, GO (AirTran's in-flight magazine), AAA Horizons, The Patriot Ledger, St. Petersburg Times, New England Travel, AmericanHeritage.com, and ESPN.com. His blog, HubTrotter (http://hubtrotter.blogspot.com), covers travel and history topics in Boston and beyond.

Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of The Meat Racket and Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.

Dr. Chris Lowe is a professor in marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), where he and his students work with acoustic and satellite telemetry techniques to study the movement, behavior and physiology of sharks, rays and gamefishes. Dr. Lowe earned his Bachelor of Arts in marine biology at Barrington College in Rhode Island and a Master of Science degree in biology at CSULB. In 1998, he achieved a doctorate in zoology, studying bioenergetics of juvenile hammerhead sharks, at the University of Hawaii. In 1998, he returned to CSULB to teach marine biology and oversee the Shark Lab, which was founded in 1966 by Dr. Donald R. Nelson, a pioneer in the development and use of acoustic telemetry to study sharks. It has been Dr. Lowe's goal to maintain the history of innovation Dr. Nelson established. For the last ten years, he and his students have been studying the baby and juvenile white sharks of Southern California and have greatly contributed to the field of knowledge for this enigmatic species. In addition, recent research by Dr. Lowe and his student team has focused on the development of underwater robots for autonomously tracking sharks and gamefishes. He has garnered several academic awards, including CSULB's 2008-2009 Outstanding Professor Award and 2012 Impact in Research Award. As the climate and the environment continue to change, Dr. Lowe has become adept at speaking to media about how fluctuations in water temperatures and weather patterns have affected ocean life. He has appeared in many articles and on TV and radio broadcasts, including the PBS/BBC special "Big Blue Live", "TODAY", "Al Jazeera America", "CBC News", Newsweek, KNX Radio, the Orange County Register and the Long Beach Press-Telegram, just to name a few. Dr. Lowe grew up on Martha's Vineyard, where he spent a majority of his youth fishing and diving the waters around Cape Cod. He comes from a long line of New England fishermen and whalers and believes a career focused on the ocean environment was inevitable.

Christopher Lydon is an American media personality and author. He is best known for being the original host of *The Connection*, produced by WBUR and syndicated to other NPR stations.

Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the *Associated Press *and is now a contributing editor for *Men’s Health*. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for *Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men’s Journal*, and N*ew York*. He does his own running among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.

Christopher Muther is the travel writer for the Boston Globe. He caught the travel bug as a child while hatching a plan to escape from his hometown. Over the past three years, his beat at the Globe has brought him to Asia, South America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Ohio wine country. Previous to writing about travel he held the world's record as the country's least stylish style writer. His column appears Sundays in the travel section of the Boston Globe and online. When he's not on the road, he lives in Boston with his husband and their cat, Mrs. Dusty Davenport.

Dr. Christopher J. Preston teaches and writes in environmental philosophy at the University of Montana, Missoula. He is author of The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World (2018), Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston, III (2009), and Grounding Knowledge: Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place (2003), as well as co-editor of an anthology titled Nature, Value, and Duty (2007) and editor of a special journal issue of Ethics and the Environment on “Epistemology and Environmental Philosophy” (2005). His published articles include work on value theory, ecofeminist ethics, public health and environmentalism, environmental epistemology, and the embodied mind. He also writes on the ethics of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and geoengineering. Raised in England and now living in Montana, he has particular interest in the idea of “sense of place.”

Chris Pyle is a teacher, scholar, and political activist whose interests range across history, law, and politics, with an emphasis on civil liberties. Pyle has taught intelligence agents in the army, policemen at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, undergraduates at University College in Dublin, law students at Harvard, and graduate students at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has chaired Mount Holyoke's Department of Politics and the College's programs in complex organizations and American studies. In 2007, he received the College's distinguished teaching award.

Christopher Ricks discovered Milton at school and was the first in his family to go to university. He became an academic and wrote early reviews of Heaney and Hill. Now based in Boston and married to a photographer, he has published a book on Bob Dylan and won a controversial election to become professor of poetry at Oxford.

Christopher Tkach, Founder and Head Brewer, found a good use of his idle hands as soon as he turned 21. Born and raised in the land of “Live Free or Die”, he received his first beer-making kit as a present from his uncle. From that day forward, he became not only a fan of beer, but a student of the craft of beer making. For over 15 years, Chris’ love and appreciation of beer inspired him to earn credentials as a Certified Beer Judge through the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP). Throughout his career, he has been active in local homebrew organizations including the Boston Wort Processors and has earned numerous awards at regional and national homebrew competitions.

**Chris Walsh** has a decade of experience as a special effects technician in feature film production. His credits include: The Judge, The Equalizer, Ted 2, and Black Mass. Three years ago Chris and Judson Bell decided to use their years of custom fabrication in special effects and videography experience to build custom drones for commercial production. Elevated Perspective Media is based in commercial production, but is continuing to expand its services into mapping and inspection work using sUAS.