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Dante Gibbs is a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University. He is also a staff member of the East Cleveland Partnership, a collaboration between the City of East Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University’s Social Justice Institute.

**Dante Ramos** is a columnist on the Boston Globe's Op-Ed page. Ramos joined the Globe's staff in 2006 and has since served as deputy editorial page editor and written editorials on how cultural restrictions limit Boston's economic vitality that earned him a place as a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2014.

Danuta Borchardt is an award-winning translator from Polish to English. After a lengthy career in clinical psychiatry she turned to translation with an English edition of Witold Gombrowicz's novel *Ferdydurke*, for which she was awarded the National Translation Award in 2001, from the American Literary Translators Association. She has also written short stories, which have been published in *Exquisite Corpse*.

Danya Sherman is an urban planner, program director, and consultant with a passion for starting, improving, and communicating about innovative and impactful initiatives in urban development, and the arts. She is currently heading a new initiative to pioneer multimedia educational curriculum for socially responsible real estate at the MIT STL Lab, and is a consultant with ArtPlace America and a contributing writer for Next City.

Daphna Renan is Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is a leading scholar of constitutional democracy and presidential power. She teaches courses on structural constitutional law, administrative law, the US presidency, and public law theory. She is the author with Nikolas Bowie of the book "Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People" (W.W. Norton 2026).

Daphne Kalotay is the author of the novel *Russian Winter* (HarperCollins 2010), which was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and is forthcoming in sixteen translated editions. Her fiction collection *Calamity and Other Stories* (Doubleday 2005) was a Poets & Writers "Notable Book" and short-listed for the 2005 Story Prize. Daphne holds an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Modern & Contemporary Literature, both from Boston University, and has taught literature and creative writing at Boston University, Skidmore College, Grub Street, and Middlebury College. A recipient of fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo, she currently lives in the Boston area.

**Dr. Dara Arons** is a Family Physician for Charles River Community Health. Dara graduated from the Yale School of Medicine in 2006 and was awarded the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians Honor and the Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation.

**Dara Lind** covers immigration policy for ProPublica in Washington, DC. Before coming to ProPublica, she spent five years as Vox's immigration reporter; she remains a regular cohost of the Vox podcast "The Weeds." She's been covering immigration in some form since the end of the George W. Bush administration.

Darci Schofield joined MAPC in August 2017. She works with local, state, and federal agencies and community-based organizations providing technical assistance for sustainable and equitable management of natural resources. Her work is mainly focused on climate adaptation and resilience, hazard mitigation, stormwater management, green infrastructure, environmental justice, and open space and habitat protection. In addition to that, she designs and advances the agency’s environmental public policy agenda. Prior to joining MAPC, she was an Urban Program Director at The Trust for Public Land in Boston where she implemented climate-science geospatial planning and resilience with green infrastructure and nature-based solutions in 20 cities throughout MA and RI. Darci started at The Trust for Public Land in 2008 and previously held Project Manager II, Project Manager, and Senior Project Associate before being promoted in 2015. She first began her field in 1998 as a Conservation Organization, Executive Committee, Outings Coordinator at Sierra Club in Portland, ME. Darci holds a MS in Forestry from the University of Maine Orono and a BA in Environmental Science with a minor in Geology from Boston University. She also holds a Negotiation and Leadership Certification from Harvard Law School. Image: [www.mapc.org](https://www.mapc.org/staff-member/darci-schofield/ "mapc")

Darlene Lombos is President and principal officer of the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC) and the first woman and person of color to be elected in this top leadership position. Darlene took office in 2000 and was reelected to a second term in 2024. The GBLC represents over 100,000 union members and their families within 24 cities and towns in the region, and has as its primary mission to build power for workers and progressive allies to advance our movement for social, economic and racial justice.

**Daron Acemoglu** is a Professor of Economics at MIT. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, given to economists under age forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge, in 2012 he was awarded the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in economics for work of lasting significance, and in 2016 he received the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in economics, finance, and management for his lifetime contributions.

As founding editor of *Gastronomica*, Darra is at the forefront of food studies in the US. She regularly appears on radio and television to comment on trends in American eating habits. Her own culinary research has focused on the cuisines of Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, as well as on the cultural history of flatware. Outside the classroom she has served as a restaurant consultant, exhibition curator, and advisor to various individuals and organizations. Based on her work with the Council of Europe, Darra is currently exploring ways in which food can be used to promote tolerance and diversity in an increasingly fractious world.