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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 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.

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.

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.

Alice D. Domar, PhD is a pioneer in the application of mind/body medicine to women's health issues. She not only established the first Mind/Body Center for Women's Health, but also conducts ongoing ground-breaking research in the field. Her research focuses on the relationship between stress and different women's health conditions, and creating innovative programs to help women decrease physical and psychological symptoms. Dr. Domar received her MA and PhD in Health Psychology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Ferkauf School of Professional Psychology of Yeshiva University. Her post-doctoral training was at Beth Israel Hospital, Deaconess Hospital, and Children's Hospital, all in Boston. She is currently the Executive Director of the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health, and the Director of Mind/Body Services at Boston IVF. She is an assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, and a senior staff psychologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Domar has compiled an impressive list of accomplishments as a best-selling author, media authority and sought-after public speaker.

Alice Dungan Bouvrie brings over 20 years of experience in the film industry to her role as documentary Producer and Director. She holds a Master's Degree in Film Production from Boston University, a Master's Degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University, and is a graduate of the DGA Producers Training Program out of New York. She is an active member of the Director's Guild of America, and an active member and former board member of Women in Film & Video/New England. Bouvrie worked as an Assistant Director on feature films, TV series and specials, commercials and industrials for seven years then began producing documentaries as an independent in 1993, forming Mineral King Productions, a video documentary production company based in Arlington, Massachusetts. Mineral King Productions produces broadcast-quality documentary videos with an intercultural emphasis. The organization was created in response to a need for culturally based video projects that would bring depth and immediacy to topical subject matter.

Alice J. Friedemann is the creator of energyskeptic.com. Ms. Friedemann is perhaps best known for her book "When Trucks Stop Running – Energy and the Future of Transportation" published by Springer, and "Peak Soil", which was edited by David Pimentel at Cornell, Tad Patzek at U.C. Berkeley, and Walter Youngquist (author of "Geodestinies").

Alice Hoffman attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, receiving an MA in creative writing. Hoffman's first novel, *Property Of*, was written at the age of twenty-one, while she was studying at Stanford, and published shortly thereafter by Farrar Straus and Giroux. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by *The New York Times*, *Entertainment Weekly*, *The Los Angeles Times*, *Library Journal*, and *People Magazine*. She has also worked as a screenwriter and is the author of the original screenplay *Independence Day*. Her short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in *The New York Times*, *The Boston Globe Magazine*, *Kenyon Review*, *Redbook*, *Architectural Digest*, *Gourmet*, *Self*, and other magazines. Her teen novel *Aquamarine* was recently made into a film.

Alice Quinn is the editor *Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments* by Elizabeth Bishop and of the future volume of her notebooks and journals. She is the executive director of the Poetry Society of America.

Dr. Rivlin was the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office. Prior to that, she was the chair of the District of Columbia Financial Management Assistance Authority, a vice chair of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, and director of the Office of Management and Budget. Currently, she is the director of the Greater Washington Research Program and senior fellow of Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution. She is also a visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University.

Alice developed an interest in progressive politics in the 1960s and 70s starting with campus opposition to the Vietnam War and moving on to her discovery of feminism and health reform movements while in medical school and residency. She contributed to the first edition of Our Bodies, Our Selves, joined women’s consciousness raising activities, and worked for health care reform on the grassroots level. Political analysis thus increasingly informed her understanding of the world. She also became active in a number of social justice organizations and began speaking and writing on topics ranging from childbirth to menopause to caring for underserved populations.