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Tucker was born in 1955 in Monroeville, Alabama in the age of segregation; she did not attend an integrated school until she was a junior in high school. She then attended Auburn University and pursued double major of English and journalism and wrote for the student newspaper, *The Plainsman*. After graduation in 1976, she applied for a job at *the Atlanta Journal-Constitution *(AJC) where she was hired as a reporter. In 1980, she left Atlanta and the AJC for a job at the *The Philadelphia Inquirer*. Shortly thereafter, Tucker decided she wanted to be a foreign correspondent in Africa, but *the Inquirer* felt she was too inexperienced for the assignment. Tucker set out on her own, traveling around Africa and freelancing for six months. Realizing she had had enough of the experience, she returned to Atlanta where she was rehired as a columnist by *the AJC*. Tucker was selected as Nieman Fellow by Harvard University in 1988. She was promoted to her current position as editorial page editor of the AJC in 1990. In 1993, the National Women's Political Caucus awarded Tucker their Exceptional Merit Media Award. In 2005, Tucker received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. Tucker currently writes two columns each week for *the AJC *appearing on Wednesday and Sunday. Her columns are further syndicated to over 40 U.S. newspapers and appear on the AJC's website. Those columns earned her nominations for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004 and 2006 before her eventual win in 2007.

Cynthia Wainscott is a member of NMHA's Board of Directors. Cynthia served as education director of the Mental Health Association of Minnesota from 1987-1990, and was executive director of the National Mental Health Association of Georgia from 1990-2003. She was also a founding member of the Georgia Prevention Credentialing Consortium and a member of the Center for Mental Health Services' National Mental Health Advisory Council from 2000-2004. With 16 years experience, Cynthia is an established leader in mental health education. She directed a pilot site for the National Institute of Mental Health's Depression: Awareness, Recognition and Treatment program a ground-breaking public education campaign developing a training model for education programs nationwide. Her passion for advocacy and education is fueled by the experiences of her mother, daughter and granddaughter, who have all successfully lived with mental illness. Cynthia holds a BA degree from Metropolitan State.

Cynthia holds a BS in Wildlife Management from University of New Hampshire and MBA from Southern New Hampshire University. Cynthia has spent twelve years working for online trading companies in the energy industry, with a focus on project management, strategic planning, and sales. Cynthia is an avid traveler and a scuba diver with a deep appreciation for wildlife on land and sea. Her underwater experiences with whale sharks, great hammerheads, nurse sharks, and great white sharks, led her to leave the corporate world and establish a nonprofit to support shark research and education.

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César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is a scholar of migration who regularly weighs in on pressing public affairs. A tenured associate professor of law at the University of Denver, he has been publishing crimmigration.com since 2009. César’s academic interests center on crimmigration law. He has published scholarly articles in the California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Boston University Law Review, BYU Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, among others. His first book, Crimmigration Law, was published by the American Bar Association in 2015. His second book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants, will be released in December 2019 by The New Press. In addition to teaching a seminar on crimmigration law and policy, he teaches Immigration Law, Criminal Procedure, Torts, and an undergraduate course, Legal Actors and Institutions. He is currently serving his second consecutive one-year term as a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. César makes frequent public appearances discussing crimmigration law. His op-eds have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, Salon, and La Opinión. He has presented his academic research on approximately 70 occasions since 2010 and regularly appears in news stories about immigration matters.

D. Brenton Simons has served as President and CEO (formerly Executive Director) of the New England Historic Genealogical Society since December 2005. Previously he served as Chief Operating Officer of the Society and, over more than a decade, held several other management positions at NEHGS. During his career he developed some of the Society's most popular services, including its website, www.NewEnglandAncestors.org, its member magazine, *New England Ancestors*, and its special publications imprint, the Newbury Street Press. He is most recently author of *Witches, Rakes, and Rogues: True Stories of Scam, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in Boston, 1630-1775*, recipient of the 2006 Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. He is also the author of *The Langhornes of Langhorne Park* (1997) and co-editor and originator of *The Art of Family: Genealogical Artifacts in New England* (2001). His articles have appeared in several historical and genealogical journals. His book, *Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views*, will be published by the University Press of New England in 2008. A graduate of Boston University, Mr. Simons is a Council member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a member of The Society of the Cincinnati and The Society of Mayflower Descendants.

D.D. Guttenplan, the author of The Nation: A Biography is the magazine’s longtime London correspondent and co-editor of the Nation’s 150th anniversary special issue. His previous book, American Radical:The Life and Times of I.F. Stone was awarded the 2010 Sperber Prize for Biography. His first book, The Holocaust on Trial, was described by the New Yorker as “a mixture of superb reportage and serious reflection.” He produced the acclaimed documentary film Edward Said: The Last Interview and is a frequent commentator on American culture and politics for the Guardian and the BBC.

D. Farai Williams, Founder & Facilitator with, Dynamizing Equity (dEQ) & Idjeli Theater Works (ITW), is an artist, theater of the oppressed facilitator, racial equity strategist and cultural organizer. “I use theater and culture-based tools, as a method of personal and social inquiry; to synergies the head, heart & body for radical healing. By acting and dramatizing personal stories, our reflective minds begin to shape stronger ideas against racial oppression and inequity [particularly the racial oppression we have internalized]”. The result-invigoration to rebuild healthy, equitable communities. Farai holds a master’s of fine arts degree from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University and Moscow Theater Arts School. Farai currently serves as a, partner and racial equity strategist with The Disruptive Equity Education Project (DEEP). She is also the Core-Coordinator for the Network of Immigrants and African Americans building Solidarity and a faculty member with Southern Jamaica Plains’, Racial Reconciliation and Healing Project. Image: [Dynamizing Equity](http://www.dynamizingequity.com)

**D.M. Aderibigbe** was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He graduated with a BA in History and Strategic Studies from University of Lagos in 2014. His chapbook, In Praise of Our Absent Father was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series. He is the recipient of 2015 and 2016 fellowships and honours from Oristaglio Family Foundation, Entrekin Foundation, Dickinson House, Callaloo and Boston University where he is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing.

D. Michael Lindsay, assistant professor of sociology at Rice University, is a renowned sociologist, focusing on issues of faith and leadership. He heads the White House Fellows Project, a research project that studies the role of the White House Fellowship, America's most prestigious leadership program, in the lives of America's top leaders, across a range of fields. Prior to this project, Lindsay interviewed 360 evangelical Christians in positions of leadership, published by Oxford as *Faith in the Halls of Power*. D. Michael Lindsay leads the field in the academic study of the effects of faith in the leaders of one of history's most powerful countries.

D. Stephen Long is Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. He previously taught at Marquette University 2007-2015, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 1998-2007, and St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia 1995-1998. He served as director of continuing education at Duke Divinity School 1990-1995. He received a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University and master’s and PhD from Duke. He works in the intersection between theology and ethics and has published over fifty essays and twenty books including "Divine Economy: Theology and the Market"; "Christian Ethics: Very Short Introduction"; "The Perfectly Simple Triune God"; "Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics"; and "A Theological Economy: The Legacies of Adam Smith and St. Paul" (T & T Clark, forthcoming 2027). He is ordained in the United Methodist Church and served churches in Roatan, Honduras, Apex, North Carolina, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and regularly preaches and presides in Dallas.

D.A. Pennebaker is the director of *Kings of Pastry*, *The War Room*, *Don't Look Back*, and *Monterey Pop*. Photo courtesy of Bruce Gilbert/Provincetown International Film Festival.

D.C. Denison is a *Boston Globe* technology writer and Porter Square Neighborhood Association webmaster.