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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.

Dr. Alice Flaherty is a neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. She completed her AB (summa), MD (magna), internship, residency, and fellowship at Harvard. In an attempt at diversity, she also did a PhD at MIT, one mile away. In the MGH department of neurology, she is the director of the movement disorders fellowship, heads its brain stimulator unit, and has a particular interest in the overlap between mood and movement disorders. Her research focuses on how our brains represent our bodies, a factor that helps drive suffering in depression, movement disorders, and somatoform disorders. In addition to 30 scientific papers and reviews, while still a resident she wrote The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology. It received a national award for its innovative approach. It has had multiple translations, and is the most widely used neurology handbook in the U.S. Her current project, on the neurology of psychosomatic and stoic illness behavior, was awarded a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship (the Bunting Prize). The project describes the brain’s role in response to injury. Her work argues that illness behavior is an important skill that is both teachable and biologically based. Advances in neuroscience are making it possible to treat psychosomatic symptoms medically. She also has an independent career as an author for general audiences. Her general writing has crossed a number of genre boundaries, from popular neuroscience to discussions of literature, a children’s book, humorous essays, and a libretto for Jacob vs. Angel—an organ work by Graham Gordon Ramsay that toured in six European cities this summer. Her award-winning book on the neural basis of creativity, The Midnight Disease, was reviewed in over fifty periodicals, ranging from The New Yorker to Brazilian business magazines to a photo-essay in National Geographic. It was also featured in many radio and television interviews. The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the best books of 2004. She published a children’s picture book The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster, that touches on the genetic origin of picky eating. As a clinician, Dr. Flaherty has been honored by the Schwartz Center’s statewide Compassionate Caregiver program. In her teaching role at Harvard Medical School and Harvard College, and as a consulting neurologist at McLean Hospital, Dr. Flaherty helps Harvard students to understand brain disorders, including their own mental health problems. She has appeared as an expert on documentaries and news stories for ABC, BBC, CBC, NBC, PBS, and in Japan, Germany, Australia, and the Middle East. Dr. Flaherty lives with her husband, a book editor, in Cambridge. They describe the benefits of author-editor marriages as “complicated.” They have twin girls, whom she sometimes takes on weekend ward rounds. One of her daughters, who was herself an MGH inpatient during a bout of meningitis, recently said on rounds with her eyes glittering, “I love the hospital… I love all the sick people.”

Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers. When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident. In high school, Alice Walker was valedictorian of her class, and that achievement, coupled with a "rehabilitation scholarship" made it possible for her to go to Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta, Georgia. After spending two years at Spelman, she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and during her junior year traveled to Africa as an exchange student. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. Alice Walker was active in the civil rights movement of the 1960's, and in the 1990's she is still an involved activist. She has spoken for the women's movement, the anti-apartheid movement, for the anti-nuclear movement, and against female genital mutilation. Alice Walker started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press, in 1984. She currently resides in Northern California with her dog, Marley. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for *The Color Purple*. Among her numerous awards and honors are the Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters, a nomination for the National Book Award, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a Merrill Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York. She also has received the Townsend Prize and a Lyndhurst Prize.

Alice K. Wolf is the State Representative from the 25th Middlesex District in Cambridge. She was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1996 after serving the people of Cambridge as Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Councillor and School Committee Member. Representative Wolf's priorities include education, equal rights for gays and lesbians, affordable housing, health care, immigrants rights, gender equity, and serving her constituents. Representative Wolf has received numerous distinguished honors and awards including the 2007 Byron Rushing Freedom of Religion Award from the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry; the 2006 Massachusetts Family Planning Association Leadership Award; the 2005 Champions of Children Award from Massachusetts Advocates for Children; Citizens for Public Schools Activist for Public Schools Award in 2005; and the 2005 Early Education Leadership Award from the Massachusetts Association of Community Partnerships for Children. Born in Austria, Representative Wolf came to America at the age of five with her family, fleeing the Nazi regime. She earned a B.S. from Simmons College and later an M.P.A. from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2001, she received an honorary Doctor of Education degree from Wheelock College.

Alicia Anstead is Editor-in-Chief of *Inside Arts* magazine, a national magazine on the arts presenting industry. For two decades, she reported on arts and culture for *The Bangor Daily News* in Maine, and has been published nationally in newspapers and magazines, including *The New York Times*, *American Craft*, *Art New England* and *Down East*. She was a National Arts Journalism Program Fellow at Columbia University and the inaugural Arts and Culture Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. In addition to working as an independent arts consultant, Alicia teaches journalism, and is moderator and contributor to the "Office for the Arts" Blog at Harvard.

Alicia Erian is the author of a short story collection, *The Brutal Language of Love*. Her work has appeared in Playboy, Zoetrope, Nerve, The Iowa Review, and other publications. *Towelhead* is her first novel.