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Adam Bradley, a Harvard PhD, is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of the forthcoming *Ralph Ellison–in–Progress*, a critical study of Ellison’s unfinished second novel. Professor Bradley is also the co-editor of the forthcoming *Yale Anthology of Rap* (2010), and the author of *The Book of Rhyme: The Poetics of Hip Hop*.

Adam is a professional educator who conducts private and corporate cheese and wine tasting experiences. He is certified by the Elizabeth Bishop Wine Program, and is a member of the French Wine Society and Society of Wine Educators. He is also the Maitre d'Fromage for the Boston chapter of the Chevalier du Tastevin, a prestigious French wine society. By day, Adam works at Bin Ends Wines, an award-winning wine shop. He also teaches and has worked at Formaggio Kitchen, a world-renowned cheese importer featuring artisanal cheeses, charcuterie, and condiments from Europe and the United States. Adam enjoys eating, drinking, and talking about it!

Adam Davidson is currently a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes The Financial Page column and contributes larger features and web stories. Previously, he was the “On Money” columnist and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He also co-founded and co-hosted National Public Radio’s “Planet Money,” after serving as the international business and economics correspondent for NPR. He has been a frequent contributor to “This American Life,” including co-reporting the episode “The Giant Pool of Money,” which received the Peabody, DuPont-Columbia, and Polk Awards, and was named one of the top works of journalism of the decade by New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, GQ, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He has has served as a technical consultant to Adam McKay, co-writer and director of the Academy Award-winning film “The Big Short.” His work is heard regularly on “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” and he is a frequently featured guest on MSNBC, Meet The Press, Anderson Cooper 360, Good Morning America, and other television news shows. He has covered major breaking news stories including on Haiti, the Indonesian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Paris during the youth riots, and he spent a year in Baghdad, Iraq, from 2003 to 2004, producing award-winning reports on corruption in the US occupation.

He is a Boston-based public historian who specializes in historical memory and American political culture.

A speechwriter on the Kerry campaign, he has worked in the White House and State Department. Adam graduated from Princeton, and has a masters from the London School of Economics, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Adam Freed leads Bloomberg Associates' Sustainability Practice, where he helps cities craft and implement sustainability strategies that go well beyond the environment— cutting costs, protecting health, and creating jobs. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Adam was the deputy managing director of The Nature Conservancy's Global Water Program, where he helped cities have safe, sustainable, and reliable water supplies. From 2008–2012, he served as deputy director of the NYC Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability, overseeing the implementation of PlaNYC and related sustainability initiatives and developing the city's first climate resilience program. As part of PlaNYC, NYC planted 1 million trees, enacted aggressive green buildings legislation, achieved the cleanest air quality in over 50 years, launched a $2 billion green infrastructure program, and lowered its GHG emissions 19%. Adam was also an assistant comptroller in the Office of the New York State Comptroller, where he worked on economic development issues and crafted corporate governance strategies for the State's $150 billion pension fund. Adam is a lecturer at Columbia University and a member of the NYC Water Board. He received his master's in urban planning from NYU and was a Mel King Community Fellow at MIT.

Adam joined NEPM as a freelance reporter and fill-in operations assistant during the summer of 2011. For more than 15 years, Adam has had a number stops throughout his broadcast career, including as a news reporter and anchor, sports host and play-by-play announcer as well as a producer and technician.

Adam Gismondi, Ph.D., serves as Director of Impact at the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE) at Tufts University's Tisch College of Civic Life. He supports IDHE’s founding director and leads partnerships for the office, communications, and theory-to-practice resources, and he is co-author on all of IDHE’s national research reports on college student voting and recommendations for practice. His research looks at democracy, digital platforms, and education, and his doctoral dissertation focused on how college student social media use impacts student civic learning and engagement. Adam also currently serves as an advisory board member for SXSWedu, civic media researcher for Civic Series, and recently finished two terms as president of the William & Mary Alumni Boston Chapter. Prior to working in a research capacity, Adam spent six years working as a student affairs administrator at both the University of Florida and Florida State University. He holds a B.A. in sociology from William & Mary, an M.Ed. in student personnel in higher education from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in higher education from Boston College.

Adam Gopnik is one of our most esteemed and well-liked man of letters. Having come to prominence as a writer for *The New Yorker* since 1986 and first and foremost an observer of American life, he writes about modern life, culture, and sensibilities in essays, fiction, profiles, and reviews with unmatched wit and savvy. Mr. Gopnik's observations on expatriate life in Paris, where he lived for several years, were first published in the magazine and then collected in a book called *Paris to the Moon* (2000). His just published book is *Angels & Ages: How Lincoln and Darwin Invented the Mind of the Modern World*. For his work, Mr. Gopnik has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and also the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.

Adam is a staff writer at The Atlantic where he has covered education and national politics since 2018. He is the author of The State Must Provide, a narrative history of racial inequality higher education. He was previously a reporter at the Chronical of Higher Education, where he covered federal education policy and historically black colleges and universities. He was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 list. He is currently working on his second book, Is This America, a history of the South’s role in politics and how the region shapes us as a nation.

Adam Haslett is the author of *You Are Not A Stranger Here*, a short story collection, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and won the PEN/Winship Award. His work has appeared in *The New Yorker*, *The Nation*, *Zoetrope*, and *Best American Short Stories* as well as National Public Radio's *Selected Shorts*. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Yale Law school and has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Michener/Copernicus Society of America. He lives in New York City, where he works part-time as a legal consultant.