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David Applegate is the senior science advisor for earthquake and geologic hazards at the USGS. In that capacity, he leads the Earthquake Hazards, Global Seismographic Network, and Geomagnetism Programs and coordinates geologic hazards activities across the USGS. He also chairs the National Science and Technology Council's interagency Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction. Applegate is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Utah's Department of Geology and Geophysics. Prior to joining USGS in 2004, he spent eight years at the American Geological Institute (AGI) as director of government affairs and, for the last four years there, as the editor of Geotimes, AGI's newsmagazine of the earth sciences. Before coming to AGI, Applegate served with the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources as the American Geophysical Union's Congressional Science Fellow and as a professional staff member for the minority. Born and raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Applegate holds a B.S. in geology from Yale University and a Ph.D., also in geology, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David Autor is Professor of Economics at MIT and Editor-in-Chief of *The Journal of Economic Perspectives*.

David Axelrod is senior advisor to President Barack H. Obama. Prior to that, he served as senior advisor to the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition and Senior Strategist to Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency. Since 1988, Axelrod has been Senior Partner at the consulting firm AKP&D Message and Media, based in Chicago. In that capacity, he managed media strategy and communications for more than 150 local, state, and national campaigns, with a focus on progressive candidates and causes. In 2006, Axelrod ran the independent expenditure media program for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, helping Democrats regain the majority in the House of Representatives. That same year, Axelrod served as media adviser to Deval Patrick, who was elected Massachusetts's first Democratic governor in 16 years and the state's first-ever African American governor. In 2004, when President Obama was a member of the Illinois State Senate, Axelrod helped him defeat a primary field of six other Democrats and go on to a landslide win in his US Senate campaign.

David Beard has been a reporter and editor for the past 27 years. He worked abroad as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press and was deputy foreign editor, regional editor, and assistant managing editor for The Boston Globe. He has been the editor of Boston.com, one of the nation's biggest newspaper-based web sites, since September 2006. Beard also teaches news writing at the Harvard Extension School and is on the board of the school's journalism masters program. He was an Inter American Press Association scholar in Argentina and is a graduate of Northwestern University.

David Benjamin is principal at The Living and assistant professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The Living explores the architecture of the future through building it today, bringing new technologies to life in the built environment with a passion for integrating design innovation, sustainability, and the public realm. Benjamin believes that cities and buildings are living, breathing organisms, and in the context of rapid change and new urban challenges, proposes that design should be a living, breathing ecosystem. Within this design ecosystem, The Living works on multiple scales simultaneously; anticipates and welcomes rapid change; and embraces design with uncertainty, design with rules rather than fixed forms, and design with shifting and unknowable forces. Clients include the City of New York, Airbus, 3M, Quantified Self, and Miami Science Museum. Recent projects include the Princeton Architecture Laboratory, Hy-Fi (a branching tower in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 created with almost no waste, energy, or carbon emissions), Pier 35 EcoPark (a 200-foot floating pier in the East River that changes color according to water quality), and Architecture Bio-Synthesis (a new process of bio-computation and bio-manufacturing to produce high-performance, sustainable materials through synthetic biology).

David Bergeron is approaching 20 years experience working with the fishing industry. Before joining the FPHP, he was the founding executive director of the Massachusetts Fishermens Partnership (MFP) and has also served as a founding member and treasurer of the Commercial Fishermen of America. While at the MFP, he managed a multimillion dollar collaborative research program and led fishing industry participation in the passage of the Massachusetts Oceans Act, the first comprehensive oceans management statute in the nation. Educated in music with degrees from Stetson University School of Music and the New England Conservatory, David maintains an active musical life outside the industry.

David Bethea is a Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Kansas. His research interests include: Pushkin and his era, modern Russian poetry, Russian religious thought and cultural mythology, Russian emigre literature, Anglo-American vs. Russian modernism, 20th century Russian/Slavic literary theory. Professor Bethea has also written several books including: *Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile* (1994), and *Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet* (1998).

Known as Boston’s premier music archivist, David Bieber first worked in radio for WBUR and WBCN before being selected to curate a collection of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia at The Verb Hotel in Fenway, which is a dynamic reimagining of a classic mid-century motel.

Professor Bloom has published over 200 articles and books in the fields of economics and demography. He has been honored with a number of distinctions, including fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Galbraith Award for quality teaching in economics. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in India, and a scholar in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation during the academic year 1989-1990. Professor Bloom has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the International Labor Organization, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Asian Development Bank. In addition, he is a member of the American Arbitration Association's Labor Arbitration Panel, a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, and a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he participates in the programs on labor studies, health economics, and aging. Bloom has been a contributing editor of *American Demographics* and an associate editor of *the Review of Economics and Statistics*. He has served as a referee for over sixty journals and publishing houses, and has been a member of *the Book Review Board of Science magazine* since January 2000.

After Edward R. Murrow awards, Emmy awards, Radio and Television News Directors Association awards, Society of Professional Journalists awards and after being named Boston’s Best Political Reporter, David Boeri is making WBUR his next venue for award-winning journalism. David has reported stories such as the wars in El Salvador and Kosovo, environmental issues in Belize, politics in Canada and organized crime in Boston. While David’s television work at WCVB-TV and WGBH-TV is legendary, his entire career in broadcasting is impressive. In the early days of public radio in Alaska, he worked at KFSK in Petersburg, where he would sign off with “You’re listening to KFSK, the only station on your dial.” David is a writer at heart, and he has contributed to publications such as *The New York Times Sunday Magazine*, *The Boston Globe*, *Oceans*, *Yankee*, *Boston Magazine*, and *The Boston Phoenix*. David is the author of two books. After several years as a commercial fisherman in Boston, he wrote “*Tell it Good-bye Kiddo: The Decline of the New England Offshore Fishery*.” He later lived and hunted with Eskimo whalers in Northwestern Alaska and authored *People of the Ice Whale* (E.P. Dutton; Harcourt, Brace) about an endangered culture’s hunt for an endangered whale.

David Bollier has spent much of the past 10 years studying the commons as a new paradigm for economics, politics and culture. He has pursued this work as an editor of Onthecommons.org, and as an author, activist and speaker. Bollier's most recent books include *Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Commons Wealth* (2002); *Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture* (2005); and *Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own* (2009). He has worked with American television writer/producer Norman Lear on a variety of political and public affairs projects since 1984. He is also Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and co-founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington policy advocacy organization that defends the public's state in copyright and digital technologies.

Dr. Bottoms's first book, *Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump*, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared widely in magazines such as *The Atlantic*, *The New Yorker*, *Harper's*, *The New Republic*, *Poetry*, and *The Paris Review*, as well as in over four dozen anthologies and textbooks. Among his other awards are the Levinson Prize of *Poetry* magazine, an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Dr. Bottoms has given readings and conducted workshops at over 150 colleges as well as the Guggenheim Museum and the Library of Congress. Profiles appear in the *Dictionary of Literary Biography*, *Contemporary Literary Criticism*, *Contemporary Southern Writers* and *The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry*. He has twice been interviewed on National Public Radio and is the subject of a half-hour segment of "The Southern Voice", a public television miniseries profiling southern writers. He is a founding coeditor of *Five Points*. In 2000, Govenor Roy Barnes appointed him Georgia Poet Laureate.