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Amy Dockser Marcus is a correspondent for *The Wall Street Journal*. Marcus joined the newspaper after graduating from Harvard University in 1987 with a degree in history and literature. In 1991, she asked to serve as the paper's Middle East correspondent and covered the political conflict following the Persian Gulf War from Tel Aviv. Her fascination with political conflicts over biblical archaeological sites grew from two frontpage WSJ stories on the subject and culminated in her book, *The View from Nebo: How Archaeology is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East* (Little, Brown and Company, 2000). Now a 15-year WSJ veteran, Marcus is a staff reporter based in Boston and specializing in health. She is also the winner of a 2005 Pulitzer Prize for her series on cancer survivors. Nine stories in all, the series included three news articles related to cancer survival and six told through the eyes of an individual and his or her family, focusing on the different aspects of surviving cancer.

Dr. Farrell is an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminal Justice and the Associate Director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on disparity in the criminal justice system. Primary interests include racial and gender differences the administration of justice, discretionary decision making, and prosecution and sentencing practices. She has recently conducted research on local law enforcement responses to human trafficking and is currently leading the development of a national human trafficking data collection program for the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Dr. Farrell is a co-recipient of the National Institute of Justices W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship on crime justice and culture.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of *Democracy Now!*, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 750 TV and radio stations in North America. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize for developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media. She is also one of the the first recipients, along with Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald, of the Park Center for Independent Medias Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers, *Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times *(2008), *Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back* (2006) and *The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them* (2004). Goodman has received the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award; the Paley Center for Medias Shes Made It Award; and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.

Amy Hoffman, a writer and community activist, is currently editor in chief of Womens Review of Books and a faculty member in the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College. Hospital Time, her memoir about taking care of friends with AIDS in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was published by Duke University Press in 1997. It was short listed for the American Library Association Gay Book Award and the New York Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and was a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age selection. Her memoir An Army of Ex-Lovers was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in Fall 2007. Amy Hoffman's activism has included working for peace with the Jamaica Plain Action Network and Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine; and volunteering with the Reproductive Rights Network and the Out/Write lesbian and gay writers conference.

Amy Kaminsky Ph.D., is a professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her specialties include, Spanish and Latin American literature, feminist theory and criticism, Latin American film, exile and national identity in Latin America, Jewish writing and film in Argentina, gender, race, and sexuality.

**Amy Knowlton** is a Senior Scientist who has worked on the Right Whale Research Program since 1983. She has been involved in all aspects of the program, including fieldwork, curation of the photo-identification catalog, assessment of human impacts, and policy efforts to protect right whales. Amy’s main focus has been the detailed documentation of human impacts on right whales, including fishing-gear entanglement and vessel strikes. By evaluating these data in-depth and linking these findings with the operational aspects of the fishing and shipping industries, she has been able to share these findings with industry groups and guide policy changes in order to improve the protection of right whales from these activities. Photo: [Anderson Cabot Center](http://www.andersoncabotcenterforoceanlife.org/about-us/team-members/amy-knowlton/ "Amy Knowlton | ACCFOL")

Amy is an award winning journalist who has worked in print and radio in Vermont since 1991. Her first job in professional radio was at WVMX in Stowe, where she worked as News Director and co-host of The Morning Show. She was a VPR contributor from 2006 to 2020.

Amy Korté is a design and project leader. Amy has a diverse background in environmental design, retail design, and development. Ms. Korté leads the design of much of Arrowstreet's residential work and holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a BFA in Environmental Design from Parsons. In addition, Amy is a NCIDQ certified interior designer, co-author of a book about hand drawing for designers, and has taught design studios at Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Boston Architectural Center, and Suffolk University. She is co-author of the ULI report: \_[The Urban Implications of Living with Water](http://boston.uli.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2012/04/ULI\_LivingWithWater-Final1.pdf "Living With Water")\_

Landesberg is an Atlanta-based public artist and architect whose projects include a large-scale installation on the exterior of the Fulton County Center for Health and Rehabilitation and "Power Wrap," an enclosure for an electrical sub-station owned by Georgia Tech and Georgia Power.

**Amy Longsworth** joined the Boston Green Ribbon Commission as director in May 2015, after many years as a corporate sustainability strategy consultant, most recently with PricewaterhouseCoopers. In her role as director, she works with member organizations and other partners from across Boston’s business, philanthropic, and public sectors to help the City implement its Climate Action Plan.