People

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.

Andrew A. Rosenberg is director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has more than 25 years of experience in government service and academic and non-profit leadership. He is the author of scores of peer-reviewed studies and reports on fisheries and ocean management and has published on the intersection between science and policy making.

Andrew Ryan is an investigative reporter for The Boston Globe. He joined the newspaper in 2006 as a breaking news reporter. In 2010, he became City Hall bureau chief and covered the final term longtime Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the first term of Mayor Martin J. Walsh. He has worked to keep elected officials accountable and has written about influence peddling in state and city government. He was part of a team of reporters who wrote an award-winning, five-part series about the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood of Boston. Prior to joining the Globe, Ryan wrote for the Associated Press in Boston, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, The Day in New London, Conn., and the Highbridge Horizon in the Bronx.

Andrew Sullivan was born in August 1963 in a small town in Southern England, South Godstone. He attended Reigate Grammar School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a First in Modern History and Modern Languages. He was also President of the Oxford Union in his Second Year at college, and spent his summer vacations as an actor in the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. In 1984, he won a Harkness Fellowship to Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and earned a Masters degree in Public Administration in 1986. In 1990, he returned to Washington, D.C., where he free-lanced for the *Telegraph* and started a monthly column for *Esquire*. He was soon back at *The New Republic* as deputy editor under Hendrik Hertzberg, and in June of 1991 was appointed acting editor, at the age of 27. In October, he took over as editor, and presided over 250 issues of *The New Republic*, resigning in May 1996. In those years, *The New Republic*'s circulation grew to well over 100,000 and its advertising revenues grew by 76 percent. Sullivan has appeared on over 100 radio shows across the United States, as well as on *Nightline*, *Face The Nation*, *Meet The Press*, *Crossfire*, *Hardball*, *The O'Reilly Factor*, *The Larry King Show*, *Reliable Sources*, *Hannity and Colmes*, and many others. He remains a senior editor at *the New Republic* and his book, *The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It; How To Get It Back*, was published by Harper Collins in the fall of 2006.

Andrew M. Sum is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles, monographs, and books on regional, national, and state labor markets, on the labor market behavior and problems of young adults and the role of education, literacy, and training in influencing the labor market experiences of adults. Among his publications are *Toward a More Perfect Union: Basic Skills, Poor Families, and Our Economic Future* (1988), *The Subtle Danger: Reflections on the Literacy Abilities of Young Adults* (1987), *Poverty and Adolescence* (1991), *From Dreams to Dust* (1996), *Literacy in the Labor Force: Results from the National Adult Literacy Survey* (1998), *State of the American Dream in New England *(1996), *Young Workers, Young Families, and Child Poverty* (1996), *The Road Ahead: Emerging Threats to Workers, Families and the Massachusetts Economy* (1998), and *A Second Chance for the Fourth Chance: A Critique of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998* (1999).

Andrew Sussman is senior program producer of PRI's *The World*, the daily one-hour radio news magazine created at WGBH Radio in Boston and broadcast on 210 public radio stations nationwide. In addition to producing *The World* each day, Sussman has reported for the program from Egypt and Russia. He was a 2001 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and has been with the show since its inception in 1995. Previous to that, he was based in Moscow and Paris as an editor and reporter.

Andrew Myers is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University and a registered professional engineer in the state of California. He and his colleagues at NEU are involved with an international project that will advance the engineering of wind turbines for ocean wind farms.

Andrew Tarsy is the principal and founder of Emblem Strategic, a company that works with business leaders on strategy, public affairs, leadership development, executive coaching, and relationship engineering.

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Andrew Vanasse was a digital media producer for GBH's Forum Network.

Sharon native Andy Wasif brings a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor to his observational musings. **Red Sox Fans are From Mars*, Yankees Fans are From Uranus* is the third in his series of Red Sox books, after* How to Talk to a Yankee Fan* and *Red Sox University*. His work is also featured in the book *Red Sox and Philosophy*. A lifelong Red Sox fan with a collection of Yankees fans as friends (stuffed and displayed in his game room), the Syracuse University graduate first focused on sports journalism before turning his attention to stand-up comedy. Now, fully recovered from that profession, Andy has spent the last few years enjoying the renewed rivalry as he studies the two fan bases and their relationship with each other. He's written for Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Movies and has a regular blog called "Wasif's World" on Sportsfanlive, in which he focuses on the finer points of sports and fandom. Currently, he's contributing a chapter to "Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy" along with writing projects for television and movies from his home in Los Angeles.