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Dr. DeMaria serves as medical director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease Prevention, Response and Services in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is also the state epidemiologist for Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Boston University and Harvard Medical School. He trained in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York and in infectious diseases at Boston City Hospital and the Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the Department of Public Health in 1989, he was an infectious diseases consultant in private practice and prior to that on the staff of The Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston City Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. DeMaria is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and serves on committees of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and on the boards of the Massachusetts Public Health Association and The Public Health Museum.

As a newly minted Ph.D. in 1958, Alfred Young bucked historical conventions, which gave a central place to high politics, political biography, and elite intellectual history. In *The Democratic Republicans of New York* (1967), Young studied the political movements and aspirations of the "meaner sort" of the Revolutionary era, placing them within a broader class analysis of politics. In its focus on the popular classes, on social conflict, and on the Revolution as the occasion for unleashing popular politics, Young anticipated many of the themes and interpretations that distinguish studies of the Revolution over the next two decades. Young then embarked on an ambitious study of Boston artisans during the Revolutionary era. In other articles and lectures, Young explored the transmission of English popular rituals and traditions to the colonies and their mobilization during the Revolution, the transformations of artisans consciousness and politics, and the impact of popular politics on the drafting of the Constitution.

Alfred L. Goldberg, PhD has served as a director of Repligen since July 2008. Dr. Goldberg is currently a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Goldberg has been associated with Harvard University during his entire academic career. He was appointed an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in 1969 and Dr. Goldberg has been a professor at Harvard Medical School since 1977. Dr. Goldberg has served as a consultant to many biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and on numerous Scientific Advisory Boards including the Michael J. Fox Foundation, The American Foundation for Aging Research, The Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at The University of California Medical School, and The Center for Neurodegenerative Disease at Brigham and Women"s Hospital. Dr. Goldberg earned an AB in 1963, studied at Cambridge University and Harvard Medical School, and earned his PhD in 1968 from Harvard University.

Alfred Habegger, formerly a professor of English at the University of Kansas, lives with his wife, Nellie, in northeastern Oregon. His previous books include *Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature* and a prize-winning biography, *The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr*.

Alfred Brownell is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading defenders of human rights and the environment in Africa. He is the Founder and lead campaigner of Green Advocates International and currently served as Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Northeastern University School of Law Program on Human rights and the Global Economy.

Alfred W. Crosby graduated from Harvard College in 1952 and served in the US Army 1952-1955, stationed in Panama. After his army service he earned an MAT from the Harvard School of Education and a PhD in history from Boston University in 1961. His dissertation was published as his first book, *America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleon*, a study of relations between Russia and the USA from the time of the American Revolution through the War of 1812. He retired from the University of Texas in 1999 as Professor Emeritus of Geography, History, and American Studies. His involvement in the civil rights movement, teaching African-American Studies, helping to build a medical center for the United Farm Workers Union, and taking a leadership role in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations set him off in intellectually unorthodox directions.

Ali A. Allawi is the former Minister of Finance, Defense, and Trade of Iraq. Currently, he is a senior visiting fellow at Princeton University. Born in Baghdad in 1947, Allawi graduated from MIT in 1968 with a BSc in Civil Engineering. He went on to do postgraduate studies in regional planning at the London School of Economics, and then obtained an MBA from Harvard University. Allawi was active in the opposition to the Baathist regime from 1968 onwards. He spent a number of years in finance in various positions outside Iraq, including a position at the World Bank. In 1978, he co-founded Arab International Finance, a merchant bank based in London, and in 1992, he founded Fisa Group, which manages two hedge funds. From 1999-2002, he was a Senior Associate Member at St. Anthony's College, Oxford University.

Ali Banuazizi is Research Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies at M.I.T. After receiving his Ph.D. from YaleUniversity in 1968, he taught at Yale and the University of Southern California beforejoining the faculty of Boston College in 1971. Since then, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Tehran, Princeton, Harvard, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Oxford, and M.I.T. He served as the founding editor of the journal of Iranian Studies, from 1968 to1982. He is a past president of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) and of the MiddleEast Studies Association in North America (MESA); associate editor of the Encyclopedia ofIslam and the Muslim World; and currently editor-in-chief of Freedom of Thought Journal.

In March 2008, the Board of the National Immigration Forum selected Ali Noorani to be Executive Director. Prior to joining the Forum, Ali was Executive Director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), an organization he joined in 2003. Under his leadership, MIRA more than tripled its staff and programs, and greatly increased its capacity to advocate for the rights and opportunities of immigrants and refugees. Before taking helm at MIRA, Ali worked on a variety of community health and social justice issues. At the Health Services Partnership of Dorchester, Ali served as the Director of Public Health, managing efforts ranging from HIV/AIDS to youth development for two large community health centers in Dorchester, MA. Born in California, Noorani is the son of Pakistani immigrants and one of the few national leaders of Muslim heritage. Ali is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and received his Masters in Public Health from Boston University. Recently, he received the Alfred L. Frechette Award from the Massachusetts Public Health Association for exceptional leadership in promoting social justice and received the 2007 Boston University Young Alumni Award.

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Ali S. Asani is Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University. After completing his high school education in Kenya, he attended Harvard College, with a concentration in the Comparative Study of Religion, graduating summa cum laude in 1977. He received his Ph.D. in 1984. Prof. Asani holds a joint appointment between NELC and the Study of Religion. He has taught at Harvard since 1983, offering instruction in a variety of languages such as Urdu/Hindi, Sindhi, Gujarati and Swahili as well as courses on various aspects of the Islamic tradition. His books include The Bujh Niranjan: An Ismaili Mystical Poem, The Harvard Collection of Ismaili Literature in Indic Literatures: A Descriptive Catalog and Finding Aid, Celebrating Muhammad: Images of the Prophet in Muslim Devotional Poetry (co-author), Al-Ummah: A Handbook for an Identity Development Program for North American Muslim Youth, Ecstasy and Enlightenment: The Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia, and Let's Study Urdu: An Introduction to the Urdu Script and Let's Study Urdu.

Alice Brown is the Director of Planning at Boston Harbor Now. Her work primarily focuses on expanding mobility choices and activating open spaces. She is working to promote and expand water transportation options, including the development of business plans for new ferry routes, and she is also shaping a vision for Harborwalk 2.0 to make the Boston waterfront and harbor islands more accessible and resilient. Prior to joining Boston Harbor Now, Alice has worked at the Boston Transportation Department (as the project manager for Go Boston 2030), at Sasaki, and at LivableStreets. Alice holds a B.S. in math and a B.A. in philosophy from the Ohio State University, an M.S. in teaching from Pace University, and an MUP from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. She enjoys leading unconventional tours, curating events calendars, and taking long, leisurely bike rides.

Alice is managing a comprehensive study of passenger ferry service in the harbor and working to promote and expand water transportation options. She previously lived and breathed Go Boston 2030 (the citywide mobility plan) and mapped the initial plan for the LivableStreets’ Emerald Network (a web of interconnected walking and biking paths in Greater Boston). She has degrees in math, philosophy, teaching, and urban planning. She enjoys leading unconventional tours, curating events calendars, and reading the NYTimes magazine.

During her 25 year career as a reporter, anchor and producer at CBS Boston, and national networks, Alice has covered nearly every major U.S. sporting event, including 4 Super Bowls, 3 Olympic Winter Games, 2 World Series, 2 NBA Championships, the Stanley Cup Finals, US Open Golf, the Ryder Cup, and numerous NCAA Basketball Tournaments and Hockey Championships. She was the New England Patriots weekly beat reporter from 2000-2010. Alice ([@alicemcook](https://twitter.com/alicemcook "@alicemcook")) has worked as a free lance reporter and host for national networks, including ESPN, WTBS and Turner Network Television. In 1998, Alice co-hosted “The Cutting Edge,” a daily figure skating show, throughout TNT’s coverage of the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. In 2002, Alice received the Gracie Award for a story she reported for ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” about gymnast and 9/11 victim Mary Rae Sopper. Alice is also an Olympic figure skater. She competed in the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria with pair partner Bill Fauver as a member of the US Figure Skating team that included teammates Dorothy Hamill, Tai Babalonia and Randy Gardner. Cook and Fauver were the 1976 US National Silver Medalists. Alice currently is founder and president of “She’s Game Sports,” a new media company dedicated to women with a passion for sports. She also created and developed the sports website [www.shesgamesports.com](http://shesgamesports.com/ "http://shesgamesports.com/") where she oversees content development and contributes as a feature writer.