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Host and producer Dan Tritle has wanted to be on the radio since he was five years old. A washashore from the Pacific Northwest, he's been at the job since May 2000, shortly after the station went on the air.

Dan Brock is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Social Medicine, the Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School, and the Director of the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health. Prior to his arrival at Harvard, Professor Brock was Senior Scientist and a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. Until July 2002, he was Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown University where he had a joint appointment in the Philosophy Department (of which he was Chair in 1980-86) and in the Medical School. He was President of the American Association of Bioethics in 1995-96, and was a founding Board Member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is the author of over 150 articles in bioethics and in moral and political philosophy, which have appeared in books and refereed scholarly journals. He is the author of "Deciding For Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making", 1989, (with Allen E. Buchanan), "Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics", 1993, and "From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice" (with Allen Buchanan, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler) 2000. He is currently an editorial board member of 12 professional journals in ethics, bioethics and health policy, and has lectured widely at national and international conferences, professional societies, universities, and health care institutions.

Wasserman joined *the Globe* in 1985. He is syndicated in 40 papers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, and is the author of two books, *We've Been Framed* and *Paper Cuts* (1995). Wasserman has a BA from Swarthmore College and studied at The Arts Students League of New York.

Dan is the founder and creator of the popular recipe blog The Food in my Beard, and author of Stuffed: The Ultimate Comfort Food Cookbook. In the eight years since the website’s inception, he has published over 1000 recipes that have been viewed over 15 million times. He has been featured in publications such as Saveur, Bon Appetit, Serious Eats, Fine Cooking, Boston.com, MSNBC, and Huffington Post. When not working, Dan can usually be found looking for inspiration at indie rock shows, watching scripted TV series, taking classes at Improv Boston, eating out with his friends, or playing Super Mario.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta is the 2006 Latin salutatorian of Princeton University. An undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic, he rose from poverty and homelessness to show promise, according to one faculty member, as "one of the best classicists to emerge in his generation" (Jordan 2006). Photo credit: Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau

Dana Ansel is the research director at MassINC, a nonpartisan think tank in Boston. At MassINC, she oversees all of the research products, including reports on the Massachusetts economy, the changing demographics of the state, home ownership, workforce development, and higher education. Dana developed her interest in public policy as an undergraduate at Wellesley College. She continued her studies at Princeton University where she earned a doctorate in political science in 1997. Her research interests include labor market economics, inequality, and domestic public policy. Her dissertation, entitled "Poor Chances: The Working Poor Speak About Poverty and Opportunity," is based on in-depth interviews with working-poor adults in Boston. Prior to joining MassINC, she did consulting work for the Commonwealth Corporation. She is involved with the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, the Womens Union, and other nonprofit organizations in the area.

Dana Beth Miller makes her Boston debut in the Boston Lyric Opera's *Carmen*. She won first place in both the 2006 Classical Singer National Vocal Competition and the 2004 Jensen Foundation Competition, and took third place in the 2003 Opera Index Career Grant Competition; the 2003 Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition and the 2004 Eleanor Lieber Awards at Portland Opera. Ms. Miller sang Musetta in *La boheme* at New York City Opera; debuted with the Seattle Opera as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni; performed the First Lady in *Die Zauberflote* for Portland Opera and covered the same role for the Metropolitan Opera. She also sang the role of Desdemona in Verdi's *Otello* with Des Moines Metro Opera and Sacramento Opera. Engagements for the 2009-2010 Season include the world premiere of Cory Ratcliff's *Ode To Common Things* with the Austin Symphony; Santuzza in *Cavalleria Rustican*a with Pensacola Opera; and a return to Tulsa Opera for Dulcine in Massenet's *Don Quichotte*.

In addition to her award-winning Emma Fielding archaeology mysteries, Dana Cameron's werewolf short story, "The Night Things Changed," won the 2008 Agatha Award and is nominated for both a 2009 Macavity Award and a 2009 Anthony Award. Dana's historical short story "Femme Sole" appears in *Boston Noir*.

**Dr. Dana-Marie Morris Dixon** was appointed Executive, Business Development and Research in June 2013 and serves as the Society’s Chief Research Officer, developing and driving the organisation’s research agenda. Prior to joining JAMPRO, Dr. Morris Dixon was the Director of Development Policy Planning and Strategy at the Office of the Prime Minister. She has also previously taught undergraduate and graduate courses, focused on international trade, finance, development, globalisation and Caribbean foreign policy at The University of the West Indies, Mona. She is the recipient of the George Beckford Award for Economic Development, 2003, and is an Awardee in the UWI Department of Government Fellowship in 2001. One year later, she was inducted into the Faculty of Social Sciences Dean’s Honour Society. She is a member of the Grand Jamaica Homecoming Advisory Council, Executive of the International Women’s Forum, and the Jamaica Fulbright-Humphrey Alumni Association. She is a former Director of the National Land Agency and the Runaway Bay Development Company Ltd.

Dana Edell (she/her), PhD, MFA, is an activist-scholar-artist-educator. She has produced and co-directed 80+ original, activist plays written and performed by teenagers addressing social and racial justice issues. She is the former Executive Director of SPARK Movement, a global girls activist organization that used arts-based methods to launch action campaigns.

Gioia served as the chairman of the NEA from 2003 to 2009 where he helped create the largest programs in the agency's history. He also led the US cultural delegation to UNESCO. He is the author of numerous books, including Interrogations at Noon (2002), which won the American Book Award in poetry, and Can Poetry Matter? (1992), which was short listed for the National Book Critics Circle Prize. A translator and opera librettist, Gioia has also edited over two dozen literary anthologies. Before becoming a full time writer in 1992, Gioia worked for 15 years in the corporate world as vice president of Marketing for Kraft General Foods, while continuing to write during nights and weekends. He has been a visiting writer at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Colorado College, Wesleyan, and other universities, and has also been an American cultural commentator for BBC Radio. He served on numerous boards and has 10 honorary doctorates.

Dana Charles McCoy is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on understanding the ways that poverty-related risk factors in children's home, school, and neighborhood environments affect the development of their cognitive and socioemotional skills in early childhood. She is also interested in the development, refinement, and evaluation of early intervention programs designed to promote positive development and resilience in young children, particularly in terms of their self-regulation and executive function.

Dana Milbank writes the Washington Sketch column about political theater in the capital. He joined The Post as a political reporter in 2000, after two years as a senior editor of The New Republic and eight years with the Wall Street Journal. He is also author of two political books, Homo Politicus (Doubleday, 2008) and Smashmouth (Basic Books, 2001). He lives in Washington with his wife and daughter.