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Amalie M. Kass is a lecturer on the History of Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is co-author of *Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Hodgkin*, and author of numerous journal articles and encyclopedic entries.

Amanda is a marketing consultant and food journalist based in Boston. She recently received her M.A. in gastronomy from Boston University, where she focused on food history, culture & communications. She has a background in radio and podcasting and loves to dj, even if it's just for the benefit of her cats and neighbors.

Amanda Beland was the lead producer of WGBH News' In It Together, and an associate producer with WGBH News' All Things Considered until 2021.

Amanda Figueroa is the Co-founder and Managing Curator of Brown Art Ink. She is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. Her dissertation focuses on the role of exhibition design in audience engagements with art by Latina artists. She believes that public art education is the future of civic education, and the fastest path for community development. Image: Linkedin

Amanda Hesser is the former editor of *T Living* and the former food editor at *The New York Times Magazine*. She joined *The New York Times* as a "Dining In/Dining Out" reporter in July 1997 and has covered topics from manzanilla sherry in Spain to the cranberry industry to the use of salt as a seasoning in desserts. In 2001 she wrote "Food Diary," a column in *The New York Times Magazine*. Amanda is the author of *Cooking For Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes* and *The Cook and the Gardener*. Both books won the Literary Food Writing award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Amanda lives in Brooklyn Heights with her husband, Tad Friend.

Amanda manages web, email, social media, multimedia, and print communications for GLAD's Public Affairs and Education department. Prior to joining GLAD in March 2007, Amanda served for six years as the Managing Director of The Boston Jewish Film Festival, where she oversaw all print and electronic communications, as well as all festival logistics. She first discovered the power of the Internet in the mid-90s through her work with the Austin, Texas-based grassroots media training center Women's Access to Electronic Resources, and through her work designing the first website for the Feminist Bookstore Network. Amanda is a former performer and Board Member with the dance company Big Moves Boston, a former Board Member of Women in Film & Video/New England, and served as the Programmer/Coordinator for the Boston LGBT Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts from 2005-2009. She holds a Masters Degree in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Amanda Lange serves as the curatorial department chair and curator of historic interiors at Historic Deerfield, Inc. Her most recent exhibition, "The Canton Connection: Art and Commerce of the China Trade, 1784-1860," focused on trade relations between America and China in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as well as highlighting Historic Deerfield's remarkable collection of Chinese export art. As a Mars Fellow, Amanda has been researching the history of chocolate in early America for the last four years. She is a member of the Colonial Chocolate Society, a scholarly group of museum professionals, academics, and historians underwritten by the Mars Foundation.

Amanda McGowan is a producer for Boston Public Radio.

Amanda Palmer is a best-selling author, songwriter, mother, feminist, community leader, pianist and ukulele-enthusiast who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre, and art. She has taught at both Wesleyan and Bard Universities, written for The Guardian and The New Statesman and other press outlets of note, and she is a long-time affiliate of the Berkman Klein Institute for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Amanda Plumb is the Atlanta Site Supervisor at StoryCorps.

Amanda earned a B.A. in Archaeological Studies from Yale University in 2002, with her senior thesis examining the role of the crocus in the Bronze Age Aegean economy and rites-of-passage. The following year she earned her M.St. in European Archaeology at Oxford University with concentrations in Greek Vase-painting and the Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece. In 2006, she completed the Post-baccalaureate Program in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania. The same year, she entered the Ph.D. program in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World at Penn. During the 2010–2011 academic year, she studied in Athens as a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies with the support of the Anna C. and Oliver C. Colburn Fellowship from the Penn museum. Her fieldwork experience includes excavations in Connecticut, Copacabana Bolivia, Akrotiri, Pompeii, the Agora Excavations in Athens, S.H.A.R.P. (the Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project), and Dickinson College's Excavation of the Lower Town at Mycenae. Her first publication, "Clamp-holes and Marble Veneers: the Pantheon's Lost Original Facing," the result of a research project supervised by Prof. Lothar Haselberger, appeared as an Archaeological Note in the 2010 issue of the Journal of Roman Archaeology. She presented this research as a poster at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, which won the prize of Runner-up for Best Poster. At the 2010 AIA meeting, she delivered a paper on Early Bronze Age trade networks in the Northeastern Peloponnese, which was informed by her work at S.H.A.R.P with Prof. Thomas Tartaron. She continues to assist Prof. Ann Brownlee with the publication of Penn museum's red-figure cups for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (CVA). She was named a Dean's Scholar in 2010, and received the School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students in the same year. During 2009–2010, Amanda served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for the Center for Teaching and Learning. Amanda has recently published "Keimêlia in Context: Toward an Understanding of the Value of Antiquities in the Past," in Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World (2014). In May 2014, she participated in the Ninth Annual Kolb Spring Junior Fellows Colloquium presenting "Antique, Heirloom, Curiosity, or Amulet?: Identifying and Assessing 'Curated' Objects in the Ancient Mediterranean." She also just delivered a paper "The Imperfection of Mass Production: Evidence of Experimentation from the Potters' Quarter at Corinth" (with Bice Peruzzi, Eleni Aloupi and Artemi Chaviara) at the annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Istanbul in September 2014. Photo Credit: Kolb Junior Fellows