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**Andrea Ritchie** is a Black lesbian immigrant and police-misconduct attorney, and a 2014 Senior Soros Justice Fellow, with more than two decades of experience advocating against police violence and the criminalization of women and LGBTQ people of color. Ritchie is currently Researcher-in-Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the coauthor of \_Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women\_ and \_Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States\_. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Chicago.

**Andrea James** is the Founder of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Founder of Families for Justice as Healing, the author of Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts On the Politics of Mass Incarceration, a 2015 Soros Justice Fellow, and a 2016 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award recipient. Andrea worked within the criminal justice system for more than 25 years and is a former criminal defense attorney. In 2009 she was sentenced to serve a 24-month federal prison sentence. After a lifetime of work seeking justice on behalf of disenfranchised people, she was stunned at what she encountered upon entering the federal prison system as an incarcerated person. James uses her experience to raise awareness of the effect of incarceration on women, children, and communities,and further the shift from a criminal legal system to a system focusing on human justice.

Andrea Lee was born in Philadelphia and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University. She is a former staff writer for *the New Yorke*r, and her fiction and nonfiction writing has also appeared in *The New York Times Magazine* and *The New York Times Book Review*. She is the author of *Russian Journal*, the novel Sarah Phillips, and the short story collection "Interesting Women." She lives with her husband and two children in Turin, Italy.

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. Her fourth novel, *Small Island*, won both the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best. She lives in London.

Andrea Mitchell, the veteran NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, is also the host of MSNBC'S "Andrea Mitchell Reports," an hour of political news and interviews with top news makers that airs each day at 1pm ET on MSNBC. Mitchell covered the entire 2008 presidential campaign, from the kickoff in February 2007, broadcasting live from every major primary and caucus state and all the candidate debates for NBC News and MSNBC programs, including Today, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Hardball, Morning Joe and Meet the Press. She also covered Barack Obama's trip to Iraq, the Middle East and Europe during the presidential campaign. Mitchell currently covers foreign policy, intelligence and national security issues, including the diplomacy of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for all NBC News properties. As a featured political correspondent in 2004, Mitchell was a regular panelist on MSNBCs Hardball and was the first reporter to break the story that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry had chosen Sen. John Edwards as his vice presidential running mate. In September 2005, Mitchell authored Talking Back, a memoir about her experiences as one of the first women to cover five presidents, congress and foreign policy. That year, Mitchell also received the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) honored Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award for her contribution to the protection of First Amendment Freedoms.

Andrea Walsh teaches in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, as well as the Women's Studies and Comparative Media Studies programs at MIT. Her academic background is in sociology and literature. Her teaching and research interests center on gender, popular culture, and aging. Dr. Walsh's publications include *Women's Film* and *Female Experience: 1940-1950* and various articles on gender, visual media and aging. Honors include among others, Bunting Institute Fellowship, Mellon Grant, Curriculum Development Project in Women's Studies, Clark University and Outstanding Academic Advisor, Northeast Region, American College, Testing, National Academic Advising Association.

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**Andrea Wulf** was born in India, moved to Germany as a child, and now lives in Britain. She is the author of several acclaimed books. ‘The Brother Gardeners’ won the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award and was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008. Her book ‘Founding Gardeners’ was on the New York Times Best Seller List. Andrea has written for many newspapers including the Guardian, LA Times and New York Times. She was the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence 2013 and a three-time fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. In 2014 she co-presented a four-part BBC TV garden series and she appears regularly on radio.

Andrée Zaleska is community organizer for the Institute for Policy Studies, where her work addresses climate-change and the economic crisis.