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Ana Castillo is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and esaayist. Castillo is a prolific author whose work has been critically acclaimed and widely anthologized in the United States and abroad. Castillos books include the novel, *The Mixquiahuala Letters* (Bilingual Review Press, 1986; Doubleday, 1992), *Sapogonia* (Bilingual Review Press, 1990), *So Far From God* (Norton, 1993), *Massacre of the Dreamers: Reflections on Mexican-Indian Women in the United States 500 Years After the Conquest* (University of New Mexico, 1992). As a poet Castillo is the author of several works, including the chapbooks *Otro Canto* (1977) and *The Invitation* (1979); these were followed by several volumes of poetry which include *Women Are Not Roses* (Arte Publico, 1984), and *My Father Was a Toltec* (West End Press, 1988). Most recently she published *Water Color Women, Opaque Men*, a novel in verse (Curbstone Press, 2005). Castillo has coordinated an anthology on la Virgen de Guadalupe entitled *La Diosa de las Americas/Goddess of the Americas* (Riverside/Putnam, 1996). Castillo, along with Norma Alarcon and others, co-founded the literary magazine *Third Woman*; she has since been a contributing editor to *Third Woman* and *Humanizarte* magazines. She was a community activist throughout the 1970s. Throughout this period, Castillo taught English as a Second Language, Mexican and Mexican American history in community colleges in the Chicago and San Franisco areas. She returned to California from 1986 to 1990, where she taught feminist journal writing, womens studies, creative writing, and Chicano literature at various colleges and universities. From 1989 to 1990 Castillo was a Dissertation Fellow in the Chicano Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was there that she continued her work on a new collection of poetry, *I Ask the Impossible* (Anchor Books, 2001).

**Ana Diaz Artiles**, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. Her interests focus on the engineering, biomedical, and human factors aspects of space exploration, including artificial gravity, spacesuits, space physiology, and human health countermeasures. At Texas A&M University she directs the “Bioastronautics and Human Performance” research lab. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015, where she studied artificial gravity combined with exercise as a countermeasure for spaceflight-related physiological deconditioning. Prior to MIT, Ana worked for five years in Kourou (French Guiana) as a member of the Ariane 5 launch team. Dr. Diaz-Artiles has a background in aeronautical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), and SUPAERO in Toulouse (France). She is a 2011 Fulbright fellow and a 2014 Amelia Earhart Fellowship recipient.

A first generation descendant of Portuguese immigrants from the Alto Alentejo region of Portugal, Ana Patuleia Ortins grew up with the ethnic lore and traditions attached to the food of her ancestors. She holds a degree in culinary arts and teaches Portuguese cooking in her own kitchen and at local colleges.

**Ana Vaquerano**, a native of El Salvador, is a long-term resident of Chelsea who has worked tirelessly for the community for over twenty-five years. Ana has worn many hats in her work with Suffolk University Law School; program coordinator, administrative assistant, secretary-receptionist, paralegal and intake worker among other responsibilities. She has been honored for her outstanding client service by the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and also by many other organizations. Her fluent Spanish has made her an invaluable resource for clinical students, colleagues and clients. And she has volunteered for several years to accompany undergraduate students in a program of work and learning in a rural village in El Salvador. Her dedication to public service is an example and an inspiration to her colleagues and the students at Suffolk University Law School. Ana is married and has three children and two grandchildren.

Born and educated in India (NID), with an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, Anab founded Superflux in 2009, leading the Consultancy's client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab's self-initiated conceptual projects. She has lead multidisciplinary design, strategy and foresight projects for businesses, think-tanks and research organisations such as Sony, BBC, Nokia, NHS, Design Council, Forum for the Future, Qatar Foundation and Govt. of UAE.

Anamarija Frankić is is the founding director of the Green Harbors Project, and the Biomimicry LivingLabs, professor at the University of Zadar, and an adjunct professor at the University of Split, Croatia. She is a Biomimicry, Fulbright, and Sea Grant Knauss fellow. In 2014 she co-founded Biomimicry New England. Her interdisciplinary work is grounded in biology, ecology, limnology and marine science. She has focused on applying science in coastal ecosystems conservation and management nationally and internationally. Professor Frankić helped initiate and develop major conservation projects in Croatia and the Adriatic region funded through the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Bank, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the European Union.

Ananda Lee Tan is the Just Transition Campaign Director of the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), a national alliance of 60+ community-based organizations, networks, and movement support groups working together to replace the “dig, burn, dump” economy with local, living solutions that serve the needs of healthy communities and ecosystems. Ananda has been organizing grassroots movements around the world since 1986, building activist coalitions, networks, and alliances for land defense, worker rights, environmental justice, energy democracy, ecological forestry and food sovereignty.

Anastacia Marx de Salcedo is the author of Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat (Penguin 2015), which received wide attention in the national and international press. In the past, she's worked as a public health consultant, news magazine publisher, and public policy researcher. She's currently working on a contribution to a British series on provocative issues in food, the title of which will remain nameless.

Anastassia Makarieva graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Physics and Mechanics, in 1996 and obtained her PhD in atmospheric physics from St. Petersburg State University in 2000. Since 1996, she has been working in the Theoretical Physics Division of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute investigating the life-environment interactions in the framework of the biotic regulation concept founded by Prof. Victor Gorshkov. In co-authorship with V.G. Gorshkov, Anastassia formulated the concept of the biotic pump of atmospheric moisture highlighting key ecological feedbacks on atmospheric moisture transport (2007) and, in cooperation with an international team of colleagues, demonstrated the existence of life’s metabolic optimum (broadly universal rate of energy consumption across life’s kingdoms) (2008). Combining theoretical work with field observations, Anastassia spent over sixty months doing forest research in the Russian wilderness. Her current research interests focus on deepening the physical understanding of ecosystem feedbacks on the water cycle and moisture transport.

Anatol Lieven is Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Lieven, a former senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, previously covered Central Europe for *The Financial Times*; Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia for *The Times* (London), and India as a freelance journalist. He has served as an editor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he also worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC.

Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of *Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture*, which began in 1996 as an all-volunteer zine with a circulation of three hundred and is now an internationally distributed quarterly magazine with a circulation of more than fifty thousand. Andi's writing on feminism, popular culture, and politics has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including *Ms.*, *Mother Jones*, *Utne*, *BUST*, *the Washington Post*, *the San Francisco Chronicle*, *the Women's Review of Books*, and *Hues*. Andi speaks on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities around the country, and is a frequent guest on radio talk shows. Along with Bitch co-founder Lisa Jervis, she edited *BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine*. A New Yorker by birth and temperament, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and dog.

Andras Borgula, born in Hungary, a veteran of the Israeli army and graduate of the University of Tel Aviv, founder and director of the GOLEM (Hungarian Jewish) Theatre in Budapest, chair of Limmud Hungary and host of his own radio show.