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Andrew Kohut is the President of the Pew Research Center, in Washington, DC. He also acts as Director of the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press (formerly the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press) and the Pew Global Attitudes Project. Kohut was President of The Gallup Organization from 1979 to 1989. In 1989, he founded Princeton Survey Research Associates, an attitude and opinion research firm specializing in media, politics, and public policy studies. He served as founding director of surveys for the Times Mirror Center 1990-1992, and was named its Director in 1993. Kohut is a press commentator on the meaning and interpretation of opinion poll results. Kohut received the first Innovators Award from American Association of Public Opinion Research for founding the Pew Research Center. He also was given the New York AAPOR Chapter award for Outstanding Contribution to Opinion Research. Most recently he was awarded the 2005 American Association of Public Opinion Research's highest honor, the Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement. Kohut received an AB degree from Seton Hall University in 1964 and studied graduate sociology at Rutgers, the State University.

**Andy Kurtz’s** research involves applying trace element and isotope geochemistry to Earth surface processes, Earth history, and biogeochemical cycles. A particular interest is understanding links between terrestrial and marine processes. Among the most important of these links is silicate weathering, because of its role in releasing nutrients from bedrock, its influence on the composition and magnitude of riverine dissolved and particulate loads, and for its importance in the global cycles of C, Si, P, and many other elements.

Andrew Leland’s writing has appeared in NYT Magazine, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Quarterly, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He hosted and produced The Organist, an arts and culture podcast, for KCRW; he has also produced pieces for Radiolab and 99 Percent Invisible. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and son.

Andrew Levine is a two-time grant recipient from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2000, he directed and produced The Price of Youth, a ten-minute expose chronicling the slave trade between Nepal and India. While working on the Emmy nominated The Day my God Died, completed in 2003, he compiled statistics and interviews from international agencies such as UNICEF, the United Nations, the Global Survival Network and the International Justice Mission. He also worked closely with the US/AID & the State Department, negotiated the collaboration of Congressman Jim McDermott, former Secretary Madeleine Albright and the Reebok Human Rights Foundation along with refugee camps for child castaways with AIDS. For the last two years, he has sat on the board of the Daywalka Foundation and continues to work with the Friends of Maiti Nepal.

A Boston radio veteran for more than 25 years, Andrew has been the engineer and technical director for GBH’s Morning Edition since 2018.

Andrew McAfee received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT. He is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. McAfee coined the phrase "Enterprise 2.0" in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. His book, *Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges*, studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies for students and teachers of technology. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world. In 2008 McAfee was named by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis number 38 in their list of the "100 Most Influential People in IT."

Andrew McFarland is the Community Engagement Manager for LivableStreets, coordinating communications, events, and outreach around Vision Zero, Better Buses, and a growing roster of street projects and initiatives. Drawing on diverse experiences with the New York City Department of Transportation’s Public Engagement Unit, the Brooklyn-based arts collective the Silent Barn, and as a producer for Slideluck, Andrew brings strong public engagement know-how and a creative lens to LivableStreets.

Andrew Morton is a journalist and author who has published biographies on a number of celebrity figures including Diana, Princess of Wales, Monica Lewinsky, and Tom Cruise. His latest book, \_Wallis in Love\_, chronicles the unlikely rise of Wallis Simpson from social climber to the Duchess of Windsor.

Andrew Peterson is the co-producer of *HOWL* and *Life During Wartime*. Photo courtesy of Bruce Gilbert/Provincetown International Film Festival.

Andrew Porter serves as Of Counsel of Todd an Weld LLP, a Boston based firm of trial lawyers. He has over 20 years of experience practicing law in the areas of family and probate law, business representation, business litigation, and collection law. Porter has litigated cases in the Massachusetts State and Federal Courts and has also appeared on numerous occasions before the Massachusetts Appellate courts. Porter currently serves as counsel to the Boards of Directors for several companies and corporations and represents many business entities on matters of law.

Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D. is the 10th President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). A leading political scientist and distinguished Jewish communal leader, Dr. Rehfeld’s career has bridged both the academic and professional worlds as Associate Professor of Political Science at Washington University (2001 to 2019) and as President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis (2012 to 2019). Elected on December 18, 2018 by the HUC-JIR Board of Governors after a national search, he began his tenure on April 1, 2019, and was inaugurated on October 27, 2019, at Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati. He succeeds Rabbi Aaron Panken, Ph.D., z”l, HUC-JIR’s previous President (2014-2018).

Andrew Revkin has spent nearly a quarter century covering subjects ranging from Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the troubled relationship of science and politics to climate change at the North Pole. He has been reporting on the environment for *The New York Times* since 1995, a job that has taken him to the Arctic three times in three years. In 2003, he became the first *Times* reporter to file stories and photos from the sea ice around the Pole. He spearheaded a three-part *Times* series and one-hour documentary in 2005 on the transforming Arctic. Before joining *The Times*, Mr. Revkin was a senior editor of *Discover*, a staff writer for the *Los Angeles Times*, and a senior writer at *Science Digest*. Mr. Revkin has a biology degree from Brown and a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia. He has taught environmental reporting as an adjunct professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in the Hudson River Valley with his wife and two sons.