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President Mohler-Faria was the first member of his family to go to college. Three decades and four degrees later, he continues to cite the work ethic and moral fabric of his late father, a construction worker, and his late mother, a laborer in the cranberry bogs of Wareham and in the factories of New Bedford, as the standards by which he holds himself up to each and every day. In addition, Dr. Mohler-Farias optimistic outlook on life is a credit to the Cape Verdean community in which he grew up, and it is because so much of that communitys hopes and dreams were placed on his shoulders that he continues to be firmly rooted in the lives of tomorrows generation. President Mohler-Faria is the first person of color to lead Bridgewater State College and, at the time of his inauguration, was only the second Cape Verdean in the United States to be elected the president of a higher education institution. Shortly after becoming president, Dr. Mohler-Faria undertook an aggressive plan to expand the number of full-time, tenure-track faculty at the college. He also founded Connect, a Southeastern Massachusetts partnership dedicated to advancing the regional mission of public higher education; Connect members include Bridgewater State College, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Bristol Community College, Cape Cod Community College, Massasoit Community College and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Prior to becoming president, Dr. Mohler-Faria served for 11 years as the colleges vice president for administration and finance, during which time he oversaw the largest construction and renovation program in college history. He has also held numerous senior administrative positions at Mount Wachusett Community College, Bristol Community College and Cape Cod Community College. Dr. Mohler-Faria holds a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, masters and bachelors degrees in history from Boston University, and an associates degree from Cape Cod Community College. He has participated in the Oxford Roundtable, the Millennium Leadership Institute, the New England Resource Center for Higher Education and Harvard Universitys Institute for Education Management and Senior Executives Program.

The Director of the Center for Environment, Community & Equity, and a Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She has written several books and her latest is Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action.

Dana Sachs is a journalist specializing in topics related to Vietnam. Her work has appeared in *The Far East Economic Review*, *Mother Jones*, *Sierra*, and the *San Francisco Examiner*. In collaboration with her sister, Lynne Sachs, she made the award-winning documentary film about Viet Nam, *Which Way is East*, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a translator for* The Other Side of Heaven*.

danah boyd is a social media scholar, youth researcher, and advocate working at Microsoft Research, New York University Media Culture & Communication and the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Dana Whiteside oversees the implementation of projects and programs that advance the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s mission. He works with staff at the agency to complete various planning initiatives such as the Mattapan Economic Development Initiative, the Dudley Vision Project and the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan. Whiteside is part of the Cabinet Staff within the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development providing support for initiatives to expand the economic base of Boston neighborhoods. He also facilitates completion of housing projects through the Article 80 process, serves as the agency’s representative for the Neighborhood Housing Trust (NHT), and manages the agency’s process for review and completion of Housing Creation Proposals.

As the inaugural director of the Center for Space Sciences, Danielle LeBlanc brings more than 20 years of experience as a science educator and producer.

Dani Rodrik is the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

**Dani Shapiro** is the author of the instant New York Times best selling memoir, Inheritance, which was published in January 2019 by Knopf. Her other books include the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Along with teaching writing workshops around the world, Dani has taught at Columbia and New York University, and is the cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy.

A well-known and highly respected senior leader in the Obama Administration, Rosenthal most recently served as a White House counterterrorism and cybersecurity official, where he regularly advised the President, the National Security Advisor, and other senior Administration officials on a range of critical national security matters, including emerging cyber threats and the expanded use by the private sector of new encryption technologies. In his role as Director for Counterterrorism, Rosenthal was responsible for the U.S. government’s response to numerous threats and policy challenges posed by international terrorism, including various high-stakes and extremely sensitive operational matters. Rosenthal was also responsible for advancing one of the President’s most publicly debated policy priorities – the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Daniel works out of the GBH Cape Cod Bureau and covers the South Coast. He comes to the station from Minnesota Public Radio, where he reported on science and the environment.

Daniel Albright is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard and the editor of *Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources*. He was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois and completed his undergraduate studies on a full scholarship at Rice. He later received his PhD from Yale. Albright is also the author of the book *Quantum Poetic*s which was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997.

Daniel Altman is director of thought leadership at Dalberg Global Development Advisors and president of North Yard Economics, a nonprofit consulting firm serving developing countries. He previously wrote economics columns for *The Economist*, the *International Herald Tribune* and *The New York Times*, where he was one of the youngest-ever members of the editorial board. Altman also served as an economic advisor in the British government. He currently teaches as an adjunct at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Altman is the author of *Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends* *That Will Reshape the Global Economy; Power in Numbers: UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good (with Philippe Douste-Blazy); Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy; *and *Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble With America's Future. *

Daniel Berger-Jones is an historian and Boston-based entrepreneur. He founded BHC and has 15 years experience conducting. He has won several awards,and worked with the Huntington. ART, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and others. He hosts several successful podcasts including A People’s History of Food and Drink but his interests span a plethora of fields including science, math and astronomy.

Daniel C. Matt served as professor of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California from 1979-2000. He received his PhD from Brandeis University and has also taught at Stanford University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has published six books, including: *Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment; The Essential Kabbalah*; and *God and the Big Bang*. He is living in Jerusalem and working on the first annotated English translation of Sefer ha-Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition.

Daniel Callahan is a musicologist who focuses on choreomusicality, or the interrelationship between music and dance. His teaching and research engage theater/performance, cinema/media, and gender/sexuality studies. He comes to Boston College from the University of Chicago, where he was the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and the Humanities in the College. He received his PhD from Columbia University, where he was supported by a 2012 Whiting Dissertation Fellowship and a Beinecke Scholarship.