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Rhines is a sixth year Applied Mathematics Ph.D student in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, where he's advised by Peter Huybers. He studies the atmosphere's water cycle and climate variability on a wide range of timescales. A few of his research interests are: Estimation of moisture sources — regions from which precipitation most recently evaporated. Mapping of dynamical causes of rainfall (i.e., the processes responsible for transport of water vapor from source to sink) such as atmospheric rivers. Interpretation of stable water isotopes in precipitation, and where they are recorded in paleoclimate records such as ice cores and speleothems. Orographic precipitation (that which is caused by mountains or other underlying topography), and the effect it has upon ice sheet mass balance and global water resources. The past and future of climate variability and extremes. He uses modern measurements, atmospheric models, and paleoclimate records to examine how temperature and precipitation vary in space and time.

Andy X. Vargas is the State Representative for the 3rd Essex District (Haverhill) in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He is a member of the Massachusetts Black & Latino Legislative Caucus and was previously elected to the Haverhill City Council, taking office at age 22 and serving as the city’s first Latino elected official.

Born the son of immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey, Aneesh Chopra has spent his life focusing on education and innovation. Aneesh’s father immigrated to the United States in 1966, and enrolled in the engineering program at Villanova University. He would go on to earn three patents for his work in the refrigeration industry. His mother began a career as an entry-level clerk and worked her way up to become a financial project manager. Aneesh’s family worked hard to lift themselves into the middle class and give their children access to great public schools and all of the opportunities afforded by a strong education. Aneesh attended Johns Hopkins University and then the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. After graduate school, Aneesh worked in the private sector, including a job at the Advisory Board Company – a healthcare think tank dedicated to helping hospitals better serve patients. While at the Advisory Board Company, Governor Mark Warner appointed Aneesh to several councils and commissions. Through this work, Aneesh decided he wanted to pursue his lifelong dream of entering public service. He began full-time service to the Commonwealth when Governor Tim Kaine tapped him to serve as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology. In this position he traveled throughout Virginia helping families and small businesses harness the power of technology and innovation to find pragmatic solutions, create jobs and improve their quality of life. In 2009, based on his record of success in Virginia, President Obama appointed Aneesh as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Aneesh was charged with promoting innovation to address the nation’s most urgent priorities -- from creating jobs to reducing health care costs and keeping our nation secure. As with his work in Virginia, Aneesh brought new energy to tackle some of our nation’s biggest problems. Upon Aneesh’s departure to run for office, President Obama said, “his legacy of leadership and innovation will benefit Americans for years to come, and I thank him for his outstanding service.”

Dr. Angela Belcher is a materials chemist with expertise in the fields of biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces and solid state chemistry. The focus of Dr. Belchers research is understanding and using the process by which nature makes materials in order to design novel hybrid organic-inorganic electronic and magnetic materials on new length scales. Her research is very interdisciplinary in nature and brings together the fields of inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and electrical engineering. Among her awards are the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (2000), and the Du Pont Young Investigators Award (1999). Her research was mentioned in a July 2001 *Forbes* magazine cover story on nanotechnology.

Angela Bruce-Raeburn, is Oxfam America's Senior Policy Advisor for Humanitarian Response-Haiti. Prior to Oxfam Angela served as Chief Executive Officer/President of Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc, a non-profit providing financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills to young people. A Congressional Black Caucus Fellow in the Office of Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick from Michigan from 2006 to 2007, Bruce-Raeburn focused on issues related to human trafficking and modern day slavery. Bruce-Raeburn was previously a two-time Rotary International award winner as an Ambassadorial Scholar at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and a Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford in Bradford England. Fluent in French, Bruce-Raeburn holds three Masters Degrees, in Public Administration, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.

Dr. Calabrese Barton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her start at the University of Texas in 1999, she was promoted to Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in Science Education. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy from Michigan State University in 1995 following work in industry as a chemist after receiving her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 with honors. She has a book, *Feminist Science Education, published with Teachers College Press *(1998). Just recently, she received the 2000 Early Career Award for the National Association for Research in Science Teaching.

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American political activist and university professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis was also a notable activist during the Civil Rights Movement and a prominent member and political candidate of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Since leaving the CPUSA, she continues to identify herself as a democratic socialist and is currently a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when a weapon registered in her name was linked to the murder of Judge Harold Haley during an effort to free a black convict. The convict was being tried for the attempted retaliatory murder of a white prison guard who killed three unarmed black inmates. Davis fled underground and was the subject of an intense manhunt. She was eventually captured, arrested, tried, and acquitted in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. Davis is a graduate studies professor emeritus of history of consciousness at the University of California and presidential chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She retired in the spring of 2008 and now works for racial, gender equality, gay rights, and prison abolition. Davis is a public speaker, nationally and internationally, and the founder of the grassroots prison-industrial complex-abolition organization Critical Resistance.

Angela Duckworth is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and the Founder and Scientific Director of the Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development. In 2013, Duckworth was named a MacArthur Fellow in recognition of her research on grit, self-control, and other non-IQ competencies that predict success in life. Prior to her career in research, Duckworth founded a summer school for low-income children that was profiled as a Harvard Kennedy School case study and, in 2012, celebrated its twentieth anniversary. She has also been a McKinsey management consultant and a math and science teacher in the public schools of New York City, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Duckworth completed her undergraduate degree in Advanced Studies Neurobiology at Harvard. With the support of a Marshall Scholarship, she completed an MSc with Distinction in Neuroscience from Oxford University. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, she completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Angela Duckworth has received numerous awards for her contributions to K-12 education, including a Beyond Z Award from the KIPP Foundation. She is also a Faculty Co-Director of Wharton People Analytics and a speaker and consultant to Fortune 100 companies, NFL and NBA teams, the OECD, the World Bank, and several nonprofit organizations including Khan Academy and CASEL. She is the author of \_Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance\_ (2016).

Angela E. Oh came to prominence in 1992 after the civil unrest that followed the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers charged with the beating of Rodney King. As a second generation Korean American born in Los Angeles, trained as a criminal defense lawyer, active in civil rights and civil liberties organizing, Oh found that her experiences gave insight into the causes of what was recorded as the worst civil disaster of the century. In speaking out, her clarity about the political, economic, social, and institutional failures that contributed to the implosion of 1992 resonated with communities across the region. Over 2000 small family owned businesses owned by ethnic Koreans were destroyed and Oh challenged the mainstream media narrative that the crisis in Los Angeles was due to Korean and African American conflict. In 1998, she was among seven presidential appointees on the President’s Initiative on Race (PIR) led by Professor John Hope Franklin, a historian who dedicated his life’s work to examining the effect of slavery on American society. The PIR sought to initiate a national dialogue on race and racism, inviting scholars, community leaders, business leaders, and faith communities to share their insights, knowledge, and experiences. Her contribution was to introduce into the conversations the idea that the United State race relations challenge is more than Black and White, foretelling the reality that human migration would shape race relations in unexpected and complex ways. In early 2001, Oh left the practice of law to pursue more seriously a Zen practice that includes meditation in silence. Her discovery was that words were failing to provide a bridge to understanding of humanity’s common destiny. She began to regularly meditate, write, and teach about race relations, leadership, and the law. Her realization was that communities in crisis can turn tragedy into opportunities for healing and reckoning and reconciliation. Oh discovered that her legal training could be put into service through mediating civil rights cases. Her current work allows her to bear witness to how discrimination, sexual harassment, race based hate incidents emerge as potential civil lawsuits. Her focus is to create space for opposing narratives to co-exists, yet to find the thread to resolution so that parties can find peace and move forward in their lives. In short, Oh has become expert in holding space so that healing and resilience can emerge. Oh has spent 30 years, since the 1992 unrest in Los Angeles, developing greater clarity about possible futures and pathways to unity and hope. Her search led her to realizations that both violence and “the sacred” reside at the core of all human society. Her methods for facing the future are shared in the conversations she hosts today.

Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink. PolicyLink is a national policy research organization that partners with equity advocates around the country to lift up best practices and create policies that build a just and fair society. A renowned community building activist and advocate, Blackwell served as senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation where she oversaw the Foundation's domestic and cultural divisions.

Angela Johnson is the Transportation Justice Organizer at Transportation for Massachusetts. Her role involves working with T4MA members and community based organizations to promote equitable access to transportation and to help ensure fairness and opportunity as technology transforms mobility.

Angela Nissel is author of the national best-selling comedic memoirs *The Broke Diaries* and *Mixed*. In addition to books, she is a co-executive producer and writer for NBC's medical sitcom *Scrubs* and executive producer of an in-development television project with Halle Berry and Vincent Cirricionne. Angela was born a lower-middle class light-brown child in Philadelphia. She even stayed in that fair city for college, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in medical anthropology. That degree led to a stellar career as a temp for the IRS, a "melter" in a metalworking shop, and as a "sleep apnea auditor" working the 12AM to 8AM shift at a local hospital.

**Angela Rowlings **is an Independent Writer and Photojournalist. Previously she was a staff photographer with the Boston Herald and an active board member of the Boston Press Photographers Association since 2010. Prior to her work at the Herald, Rowlings freelanced for The Associated Press as well as various national and international publications. Fluent in Spanish, she is frequently asked to interview native-speaking subjects and to interpret for reporters. A lifelong Bostonian with an appreciation for her city's rich history and diversity, she works to capture the humanity behind some of the city's most critical issues. Above all, she strives to ensure all members of the community are fairly represented in her coverage. While her primary responsibility at the Herald is to document news events visually, Rowlings has also reported on breaking news and generated feature stories.

Angela Tovar has worked as a community planner, advocate, and non-profit manager for over 10 years. She currently serves as the director of community development for The POINT CDC, a non-profit organization located in the South Bronx. In her current position, Angela oversees community partnerships, advocacy, and environmental justice efforts, including the development of a community-based climate resiliency plan. Prior to joining The POINT CDC, Angela spent 4 years at Sustainable South Bronx as the director of policy and research, where she managed the organization’s policy and community greening programs. Angela has also worked as a research fellow for The Center for Community Planning and Development at Hunter College and served as a senior manager of corporate volunteerism for Chicago Cares, where she coordinated large-scale community volunteer projects for companies, including Target, Home Depot, and Deloitte. Angela’s passion for social and environmental justice stems from her experience growing up on the industrial waterfront of Lake Michigan on Chicago’s south side. She holds a BA in urban studies from the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC, and a master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College in New York City.