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Allen Gontz is an Associate Professor of Coastal Geology and Geophysics at UMass Boston. His research interest is in coastal geological evolution and how landscapes change over time. Gontz’s lab focuses on the investigation of changes to the landscape within the Quaternary that are primarily the result of changing sea-level and anthropogenic impacts.

Allen Hill, senior vice president for UPS, manages a human resources organization that serves more than 400,000 employees worldwide. Committed to maintaining UPS's reputation as an employer of choice, Hill oversees the company's strategy in training, developing, and retaining a diverse and highly-skilled workforce. Hill received his BA from Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN., and a JD from the Nashville School of Law. He also completed the Executive Education Program at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. While attending college, Hill began his UPS career in 1976 as a part-time package loader and sorter. He held positions of increasing responsibility in operations and human resources before joining the legal group in 1988 as counsel to the human resources function. In 1994, he was promoted to coordinator of the corporate legal group and then became department manager in 1995. From 2004 through 2005, he served as the company's senior vice president of Legal, Public Affairs and Public Relations, general counsel and corporate secretary. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Hill is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, American Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and the Advisory Board of the American Employment Law Council. He also chairs the Board of Trustees of The UPS Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Human Resources Policy Association.

Allen Pittman began his training in Eastern martial arts at the age of 12. The author of Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-I & Pa-kua; Pa-Kua: Eight-Trigram Boxing; and Hsing-I: Chinese Internal Boxing, he lives in Brittany, France and teaches in Western Europe, South Africa, and the United States. Pittman has previously put his mastering to use as a bodyguard for such figures as the Dalai Lama.

Allen Shawn is a pianist, a composer of chamber and orchestral music, and a professor at Bennington College. He was the recipient of a 1995 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and an Academy Award in Music from the Academy in 2001. He is active as a pianist, and is the author of two previous books, *Arnold Schoenberg's Journey*, which won the 2003 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, and *Wish I Could Be There*, as well as articles on contemporary music for the *Atlantic Monthly*, *The Musical Times*, and *The Times Literary Supplement*.

Allen Tate (1899-1979), American poet, critic, biographer, and editor, was a founder and editor of *the Fugitive*. Tate's earliest publications included the interpretative biographies *Stonewall Jackson* (1928) and *Jefferson Davi*s (1929). His first collection of verse, *Poems, 1928-31*, was published in 1932. While teaching English literature at several colleges, including Princeton, he held the chair of poetry at the Library of Congress from 1934 to 1944. He edited *the Sewanee Review* from 1944 to 1946. After 1951 he taught English literature at the University of Minnesota and lectured extensively at universities throughout the country. Tate's creative work always echoed his preoccupations as a southerner. His penetrating and original novel, *The Fathers* (1938), which is experimental in form and style and in many ways similar to some of William Faulkner's fiction, is a tortured exploration of the guilt and moral significance of Tate's heritage as a son of the Confederacy. In typical modernist fashion, Tate was determined in his poetry to be "unromantic." His poetic masterpiece, the "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1928), is an elegy characterized by the density of its imagery, irony, and irresolvable ambiguity. Tate died in Nashville, TN, on Feb. 9, 1979. During his lifetime, he published 20 books and received many literary honors, including the Bollingen Prize for poetry.

In February 2005, historian Allen Weinstein was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and began his service as the 9th Archivist of the United States, leading the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). From 1985 to 2003, he served as President of The Center for Democracy, a non-profit foundation that he created in 1985 to promote and strengthen the democratic process, based in Washington, DC. His international awards include the United Nations Peace Medal (1986) for "efforts to promote peace, dialogue and free elections in several critical parts of the world"; The Council of Europe's Silver Medal (twice, in 1990 and 1996), presented by its Parliamentary Assembly, for "outstanding assistance and guidance over many years"; and awards from the presidents of Nicaragua and Romania for assistance in their countries democratization processes. He was also University Professor and Professor of History at Boston University from 1985-89, University Professor at Georgetown University from 1981-1984 and, from 1981 to 1983, Executive Editor of *The Washington Quarterly* at Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies. He served as a member of *The Washington Post* editorial staff in 1981. From 1966-81 he was Professor of History at Smith College and Chairman of its American Studies Program.

Allison K. Lange is an assistant professor of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in history from Brandeis University and studies the long nineteenth century with an interest in gender, power, and political images in the United States. Various institutions have supported her work, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Library of Congress, and American Antiquarian Society. Lange has presented her work at conferences such as the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, and Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Her writing has appeared in Imprint, The Atlantic, andThe Washington Post. She also consults and works as a guest curator with the National Women’s History Museum and the Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center. Lange is currently completing a manuscript, under contract with the University of Chicago Press, on the ways that woman’s rights activists and their opponents used images to define gender and power during the US woman suffrage movement. In preparation for the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, she is curating exhibitions at the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.

Allison Macfarlane is currently an Associate Professor of Environment Science and Policy at George Mason University and an associate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs' Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University. She was formerly an MTA/ISP postdoctoral fellow. She was most recently a Research Associate at MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Previously, she was Associate Professor of International Affairs and Earth & Atmospheric Science at Georgia Tech. She received her PhD in geology from MIT in 1992. She has held the position of professor of geology and women's studies at George Mason University. She has also held fellowships at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. From 1998 to 2000 she was a Social Science Research Council MacArthur Foundation fellow in International Peace and Security. From 1999 to 2001 she served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on the spent fuel standard and excess weapons plutonium disposition. Her research focuses on international security and environmental policy issues associated with nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Her book on the unresolved technical issues for nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, *Uncertainty Underground*, was published in 2006.

Allison R. Hayward is Vice President of Policy at the Center for Competitive Politics and a member of the Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics. She writes widely on election law topics and has been published in a variety of law journals and magazines, including the *Harvard Journal of Legislation*, *Case Western Reserve Law Review*, *National Review*, the *Weekly Standard*, *Reason*, the *Journal of Law and Politics*, *Political Science Quarterly*, *The Green Bag*, and the E*lection Law Journal*. She held the position of Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law from 2006 to 2010. Hayward has taught constitutional law, election law, ethics, and civil procedure.

Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College and director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs. Stanger was a research fellow for the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education in Prague, the Institute for the Study of the USA and Canada in Moscow, the Brookings Institution, and the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She has also served as a visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University and contributed to several projects including the Booz Allen Hamilton project on the World's Most Enduring Institutions, the Woodrow Wilson School Task Force on the Changing Nature of Government Service, and the Princeton Project on National Security. Stanger is the author of *One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy* and co-editor and co-translator, with Michael Kraus, of *Irreconcilable Differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution*. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in numerous publications, including *The New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, *The Financial Times*, and the *International Herald Tribune*.

Allistair Witten is an educator from Cape Town, South Africa. He is currently a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a teaching fellow at Harvard's Principals' Center where he assists with the training and development of aspiring principals. Mr. Witten has been an educator for twenty-two years in South Africa's township schools, and spent the last ten of these as school principal. Recently, Witten has focused on extending the functions of schools and making them sites for community development and transformation. His work has contributed to the Safe Schools Program in Cape Town, which adopts a community-oriented approach to engaging problems that negatively affect the functioning of schools.

Alma Richeh was born in Damascus, Syria. Alma holds a law degree from Damascus University and an LL.M. degree in international legal studies from the American University, Washington College of Law in Washington D.C. She worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Damascus as an advocate to determine the refugee Status. For 8 years, Alma was a conductor for Al Farah Choir in Damascus. She conducted the choir’s youth division, where ages ranged between sixteen and twenty three, and lead the choir in many events and concerts. She concentrated on fundraising for humanitarian causes and children’s rights. During her LL.M Studies, she worked as a teaching assistance to Ambassador and Professor Clovis Maksoud at the American University, Washington College of Law. In Boston, she worked as a research intern at the Boston Consortium for Gender Security and Human Rights at the University of Massachusetts. Her research concentrated on the rights of women in countries of the Middle East from the legal, historic, cultural, religious and humanitarian perspectives. Alma is currently conducting the CAC Children Choir, the first Arab American children choir in MA and an Arabic language teacher at CAC Arabic School.