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Antnio Lobo Antunes, GCSE MD is a Portuguese novelist. Antnio Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon. At the age of seven he decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to the medical school of the University of Lisbon where he graduated as a medical doctor and later specialized in psychiatry. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end of his education he had to join the Portuguese Army to take part in the Portuguese Colonial War. In a military hospital in Angola, he gained interest for the subjects of death and the other. Lobo Antunes came back from Africa in 1973. The Angolan war for independence later became subject to many of his novels. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium. In 1979, Lobo Antunes published his first novel *Memria de Elefante/Elephant's Memory* in which he told the story of his separation. Due to the success of his first novel, Lobo Antunes decided to devote his evenings to writing. He has been practicing psychiatry all the time, though, mainly at the outpatients' unit at the Hospital Miguel Bombarda of Lisbon.

In 2004, financial speaker Anya Kamenetz broke new journalistic ground when the Village Voice nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for her work on the series "Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young." In January 2005, the series became a biweekly column and Kamenetz became one of the youngest columnists in the paper's history. Today, she reaches millions with her "Generation Debt" online column as a personal finance expert for Yahoo! Finance. She is also a staff writer for Fast Company magazine, where she recently took second prize in the Education Writers Association (EWA) 2009 National Awards for Education Reporting for her article “Who Needs Harvard?”

Aparna Mukherjee is a civic innovator with more than 25 years of experience, spanning the private, public, and philanthropic sectors with roots in news. She’s held editorial, strategy, and product leadership roles at the world’s biggest media outlets: Associated Press, Bloomberg TV, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. At The New York Times, Aparna ran the paper’s online education “startup,” highlighting the relationship between news and democracy building with partners Annenberg and Kauffman. As a FUSE Corp Executive Fellow embedded in City Hall, Aparna worked to design the strategy for LA's Office of Civic Engagement, and she served as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence for LA2050, the Goldhirsh Foundation's annual $1 million grants challenge to elevate and fund ideas to make Greater LA a better place to live, learn, create, play, and connect. As the firm’s first social media editor, Aparna developed McKinsey’s editorial voice on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. She also served as interim director of digital for Columbia University's Alumni Association (CAA) and the head of industry and programming for the Paley Center for Media, the former Museum of Television & Radio. An alumna of Bryn Mawr College, Aparna received a dual MA Journalism and MBA from Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and lectures executive MBA students on digital strategy. She is currently a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, working to raise community voice in public comments, using participatory budgeting and deliberative polling approaches and machine learning to better represent New American and BIPOC communities.

April's love for dance began, as it does with many little girls, when her parents signed her up for a "creative movement" class at a local dance school. She took lessons and performed in recitals for 10 years, then decided to rekindle her love for dance in her 20's by taking private ballroom lessons. It was through these lessons that she met her future husband Zeke, whose southern roots and shared love for dance eventually led them both straight into the world of Country Line Dancing! In 2014, April and Zeke started Boston's most successful weekly line dance night at Loretta's Last Call near Fenway Park. She was eventually inspired to try her hand at choreographing her own dances. While April and Zeke now mostly perform and teach at private parties and events, you can still find them on the floor at Loretta's and always sharing new dances on their YouTube channel, Grapevine to the Right.

**April English** serves as the Chief Secretary to Governor Maura T. Healey. As Chief Secretary, she oversees the administration's efforts to fill appointments on boards and commissions and throughout the administration. Prior to joining the Governor’s office, Chief Secretary English worked in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office for over 19 years. She began her career in the Attorney General’s office working as an Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division. As a civil litigator, Chief Secretary English handled a wide range of cases including matters of telemarketing fraud, telecommunications, lead in children’s toys, debt settlement and credit counseling, false advertising, and mortgage fraud. Eventually, Chief Secretary English transitioned to the Criminal Bureau where she served as Deputy Division Chief and as Director of the Insurance and Unemployment Fraud Division/Unit. As a prosecutor in the Criminal Bureau, she investigated and prosecuted those who committed fraud against insurers and against the Commonwealth’s unemployment insurance and worker’s compensation system. During her last 6 years at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, Chief Secretary English served as the Chief of Organization Development & Diversity/Inclusion. In this role, she oversaw the workplace composition and culture across the Office, and helped manage recruitment, professional development, mentoring, diversity, inclusion, retention, and racial justice and equity throughout the work of the office. Chief Secretary English also worked as a Law Clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 2001-2002. She received her undergraduate degree from Spelman College in 1997 and her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 2000.

**April Glaser** is an investigative journalist at NBC News, covering the technology industry and labor and workplace culture in Silicon Valley. Previously, she worked at Slate, Recode, and Wired, reporting on AI, disinformation and hate online, and social media platforms. Before journalism, Glaser worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and various other nonprofits focusing on technology policy. She has appeared on NPR, BBC, MSNBC, and elsewhere.

Heinrich was among the first players on the U.S. women's national soccer team. She is also the former national team coach and former director of the women's youth national teams for U.S. soccer.

April Speed gained a fellowship at Anderson Cancer Center. She graduated with a medical degree and completed her residency at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Aram Calhoun recently co-edited *Science and Conservation of Vernal Pools in the Northeastern Parts of North America*, a practitioner's guide to vernal pool ecology, stewardship, and regulations.

Archon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research explores policies, practices, and institutional designs that deepen the quality of democratic governance. He focuses upon public participation, deliberation, and transparency. He co-directs the Transparency Policy Project and leads democratic governance programs of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School. His books include Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, with Mary Graham and David Weil) and Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press). He has authored five books, four edited collections, and over fifty articles appearing in professional journals. He received two S.B.s — in philosophy and physics — and his Ph.D. in political science from MIT.

Ardath Harter Rodale, chairman of the board of Rodale, Inc., is the author of *Climbing Toward the Light* (1989) and *Gifts of the Spirit *(1997). Ardie also writes "Reflections," a monthly column for Rodale's *Prevention* magazine, the world's largest-circulation health magazine. Chosen as one of the top 50 women business owners in the United States by *Working Woman* magazine and one of the 50 leading women entrepreneurs in the world by The Star Group, Ardie is the mother of five children and the grandmother of ten. She lives in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, on her family's organic farm.