People

Alex Rabe is the founder, brewer, and CMO for Portico Brewing Company based in Massachusetts. He previously worked at the marketing director for Pinck & Co., Inc. He earned an MBA from Babson's School of Business.

Alex Ross, music critic for *The New Yorker*, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, a Holtzbrinck Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for significant contributions to the field of contemporary music.

**Alex Speier** is a sports reporter for the Boston Globe. He joined the Globe in January 2015, after six years as a senior writer covering the Red Sox for WEEI.com and 13 total seasons covering the Red Sox for a variety of publications. His past professional lives included detours into academic administration at Harvard University and time spent as a writer and editor for Let's Go Travel Guides, for whom he explored such far-flung regions as Germany, South Africa, and Cleveland.

Alex Stuebler is director of strategic marketing for Siemens Energy and Automation. He graduated from the University of Erfurt in Germany, with degrees in mathematics and physics.

Alex Wang is based in NRDC's Beijing office, working with China's policy-makers, fledgling environmental groups, and legal community to strengthen environmental protection in this, the largest and fastest growing country in the world. Prior to moving to Beijing in 2004, he lived in one of the world's other most bustling cities, New York City, and worked as an associate attorney at a private law firm. He graduated from New York University School of Law, and received a B.S. in Biology from Duke University.

Originally from a small college town in Minnesota, Alex Weck moved to Somerville in 2007 hoping to pursue life without a car. After thinking that he’d take the ‘T’ regularly for his commute, he discovered that biking was simply much more effective in Greater Boston. Through working in Roxbury with numerous urban agriculture initiatives and in Lawrence with a community bike initiative Alex did his best to climb the steel ladder of understanding inequity. For the past five years Alex has lived in Springfield, approaching a broad swath of community projects including founding RadSpringfield Community Bike Project to promote access to bike repair, acquisition, and education.

Alexa Jordan is a playwright and actress based in New York City.

Dr. Alexander Altschuller practices Cardiovascular Disease Cardiology Internal Medicine in Massachusetts.

Alexander Guryanov received his Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of Moscow and began his professional career in 1975 working as a scientist in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Science. In 1993 Dr. Guryanov joined the Human Rights Center “Memorial” in Moscow. Soon thereafter he became the chief coordinator of the Polish Program within the Memorial Group and worked as a liaison for the Polish Human Rights Commission. In this capacity he authored many scholarly articles on Soviet political repressions directed at the Poles and Polish citizens of other nationalities. He co-edited a major work entitled “Repressions of the Poles and Polish citizens of other nationalities” published by the Memorial in Moscow. He also co-authored 15 volumes of the series entitled “Index of Repressed” published together with the Warsaw office of the “Karta” Center between 1997 and 2007 in Warsaw. Since 2007, Dr. Guryanov has been officially representing the Human Rights Center “Memorial” before the Russian courts in connection with numerous complaints filed by the Memorial with respect to the Russian investigation of the Katyo crime.

Alexander Haig was born on December 2,1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was best known as Four-star general and U.S. Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982. Al Haig graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1947, served in Europe and Asia until 1960, worked in Washington until a combat tour in Vietnam in 1966-67, and then returned to Washington in 1969 to work in the White House for Henry Kissinger. After President Richard Nixon's top aides resigned during the Watergate scandal in 1973, Haig served as White House Chief of Staff until after Nixon's resignation in 1974. Haig also served as NATO commander (1974-79), and in 1981 he became Ronald Reagan's secretary of state. Haig abruptly resigned in 1982, reportedly over policy disagreements. In 1988 he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in the U.S. presidential election.

Heria received a BFA in photography from Florida International University, Miami in 1992, and his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston in 1994. He has taught photography and graphic design for seven years at FIU, Miami Dade College, and the Art Institute Miami. His photography has been exhibited locally and is in numerous private collections. Currently he is an artist-in-residence at ArtCenter/South Florida.

Alexander Kaye, PhD, is the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair of Israel Studies and associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His recent book is The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel.

Alexander D. Keim is an archaeologist for the National Park Service. He obtained his degree in archaeology at Boston University.

Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the excavation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. His 1986 book, *Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts*, was awarded three scholarly prizes. More recently, his book, *The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States* (2000), was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and *the Los Angeles Times* Book Award. Keyssar is coauthor of *Inventing America*, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history, as well as coeditor of a series on *Comparative and International Working-Class History*. In 2004/5, Keyssar chaired the Social Science Research Council's National Research Commission on Voting and Elections. Keyssar's current research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.