People

Anne Marie Cammisa is associate professor of government at Suffolk University. Since 1994 she has been a visiting scholar at the Murray Research Center at Radcliffe College.

Anne Mostue’s work in radio journalism has taken her from black bear dens in the North Woods of Maine to the streets of Seoul and San Juan.

**Anne Searcy** is an Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Washington, where she researches the intersections of music, politics, and dance. Dr. Searcy’s first book, Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in fall 2020. The book analyzes the American and Soviet cultural diplomacy programs, focusing on tours by the Bolshoi Ballet in the United States and by American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet in the Soviet Union. Dr. Searcy has also published articles on the ballet Spartacus and the musical Hamilton. She holds a Ph.D. in music from Harvard University and a B.A. in history and music from Swarthmore College. Before coming to the University of Washington, she taught at the University of Miami.

Anne Sebba is a biographer, lecturer, journalist and former Reuters foreign correspondent. Her first job was at the BBC World Services in the Arabic Department. She has written eight books, several short stories and introductions to reprinted novels. She is a member of the Society of Authors Executive Committee and is working on a biography of Wallis Simpson. In September 2007 she launched her major new biography - *Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother* published by John Murray in the UK to widespread acclaim. In November W.W. Norton published it in the US as *American Jennie: the Remarkable Life of Winston Churchill's Mother*. In 2008 Anne was consultant for the Channel 4 film, *Lady Randy: Churchill's Mother*, broadcast to coincide with the launch of the paperback. Anne started her working life as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, partly in Rome, and in 1993 wrote a history of women reporters called *Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter* and is regularly invited to lecture on the subject in university media departments. In 1990 *Laura Ashley: A Life By Design* was published in UK and US and also reached several bestseller lists. This was a biography of a businesswoman, wife, mother and proto-feminist who became one of the leading influences on British twentieth century design and marketing.

Anne T. Converse is a New England-based, freelance documentary photographer. For the past twenty five years, Anne has been taking pictures that reflect her love for horses, wooden boats, people and places. She graduated in 1970 from Endicott College (Boston, MA) and furthered her education at the New England School of Photography from 1971 to 1973. Her travels have taken her throughout the United States and Alaska, to Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Nepal, Africa, India, Sychelle Islands, Carribean, and Granada. She is co-author and photographer the book entitled *Wood, Wind & Water, A Story of the Opera House Cup Race of Nantucket*, released in June, 2002. She is also associate producer for the video documentary entitled *Wood, Wind & Water, Classic Yacht Racing in Antigua Regatta, 1999*.

Anne Wass, is president of the Massachusetts Teacher's Association. She has served on the MTA Board of Directors and state Executive Committee and has been president of her local association in Hanover at two different times. For many years, Wass has chaired the training program for new local presidents at the MTA Summer Conference in Williamstown. More than 100 local presidents have benefited from attending these sessions. Wass has won several awards honoring her abilities as a teacher. These include the Plymouth County Education Association's Honor Award and the PCEA's Loretta Quinlan Award.

Anne Zeiser is an award-winning strategist whose background as a broadcast journalist, marketing executive, and social advocate uniquely positions her as the architect of successful, outcomes-driven media campaigns. Before founding Azure Media to provide strategy to media companies, Anne was Executive Director of Marketing, Publicity & Media Platforms/Director of National Strategic Marketing at PBS/WGBH where she oversaw strategy, marketing and publicity, impact campaigns and affiliate relations for PBS icons including *Masterpiece Theatre*, *Mystery!*, *NOVA*, *American Experience*, *FRONTLINE*, *Antiques Roadshow*, *This Old House*, *Arthur*, *Curious George*, *Zoom*, and *Design Squad*, as well as numerous groundbreaking multi-media special projects. Zeiser began her career in government. Her work in journalism, marketing communications, and public affairs has received top industry honors and she is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and a Board Member of the Filmmakers Collaborative.

Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School and a professor of history at Rutgers University. She is the author of *Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy*. She lives in New York City.

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, she lives in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Annick Smith (born 1936) is a writer and filmmaker whose work often focuses on the natural world. The daughter of Hungarian migrs, Smith was born in Paris and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In 1964, she moved to Montana, where she and her husband and sons eventually settled on a 163-acre ranch in the Blackfoot River valley. Her husband died from heart failure in 1974, but Smith remained on the land to raise her sons. Among her books are *Homestead*, *Big Bluestem*, and *In This We Are Native*. She also co-edited an anthology of *Montana writing*, *The Last Best Place*. Her travel writing and essays have appeared in journals such as *Audubon*, *Outside*,* Islands*, *Travel + Leisure*, and *National Geographic Traveler*. Smith served as executive producer of the film* Heartland* and co-producer of *A River Runs Through It*, directed by Robert Redford. She was also a founding board member of Redfords Sundance Institute.

Annie B. Copps is the senior editor of food for *Yankee Magazine*. Copps oversees the magazine's food coverage, both as an editor and contributor of feature stories and columns. Prior to *Yankee*, she served as food editor of *Boston Magazine* and features editor of *Concierge* and was widely known for her work as host of WBZ radio's *Connoisseurs' Corner* and WTKK's *Table Talk with Annie Copps*. As a television producer, Copps made her mark with two popular PBS series, *Cooking with Todd English* and *Julia Child's Kitchen*--where she was an assistant to the legendary grande dame of French cuisine. She has also appeared as a guest on NBC's *Todayshow*. Before her media career, Copps honed her skills as a cook at several notable Boston-area restaurants, including Olives, Jasper's, The Harvest, and Michela's.