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Dr. Arlene Ackerman has served in public education for more than 30 years and is currently serving as Superintendent Emeritus, San Francisco Unified School District until 2006. She arrived in San Francisco in 2000 and under her leadership, the district has thrived experiencing five consecutive years of improved achievement for all groups of students while also holding the distinction of the highest performing large urban school district in the state of California for the last two years. In fall 2006, Dr. Ackerman joined the staff at Columbia University's Teachers College holding the prestigious Christian A. Johnson endowed chair and serving as a professor of practice. Dr. Ackerman has received numerous honors and awards, including appointments to the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the College Board's Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges, and the National Teaching Commission. Academic awards include Uniquely University City Award for Outstanding Service, Iota Lambda Sorority's Apple for the Teacher Award, Harris Stowe Teachers College's Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Harvard Urban Superintendents Program's McDonnell Douglas Fellowship. Dr. Ackerman received her doctorate in administration, planning and social policy through the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Urban Superintendents Program. She holds a Master of Arts in Education from Harvard University, a Master of Arts in Educational Administration and Policy from Washington University, St. Louis, MO and a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from Harris Stowe Teachers College.

Arlie Russell Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, is the author of eleven books. Her 2016 Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, took her from the blue bubble where she has long taught sociology at UC Berkeley, California to a red bubble in Lake Charles, Louisiana where she described the kindling later set on fire by Donald Trump.

Arline Isaacson is co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus. She is a political and legislative strategist with high success rate. Lobbyist with extensive marketing, public relations and media expertise. Advocacy and organizing background with emphasis on message development. Isaacson has worked with African leaders and International Ethical Leadership program. Extensive experience with labor, environmental and energy issues. Lead strategist on legislative issues for GLBT community in MA.

Arlo Guthrie was born with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the other, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York in 1947. He grew up surrounded by dancers and musicians: Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman and Lee Hays (The Weavers), Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, all of whom were significant influences on Arlo's musical career. Guthrie gave his first public performance at age 13 and quickly became involved in the music that was shaping the world during the 1960s.

Armand Coleman is TPP’s first-ever Executive Director. Charged with leading and developing the vision of the organization, he works in tandem with staff who are also system-impacted, as well as many facilitators, volunteers, and community partners. Armand is himself a system-impacted restorative justice practitioner who was introduced to RJ while incarcerated as a youthful offender. He has over 10 years of experience developing and leading restorative justice programming and helping thousands heal through the process.

Armand Nicholi is a practicing psychiatrist, Harvard University professor and author of *The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life*.

Armando Carbonell FAICP, Senior Fellow and Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Carbonell has led the urban planning program at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy since 1999. After attending Clark University and the Johns Hopkins University, Carbonell spent the early part of his career as an academic geographer. He went on to initiate a new planning system for Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as the founding Executive Director of the Cape Cod Commission. In 1992 he was awarded a Loeb fellowship in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Carbonell later taught urban planning at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania and served as an editor of the British journal Town Planning Review. He has consulted on master plans in Houston, Texas, and Fujian Province, China, and is the author or editor of numerous works on city and regional planning and planning for climate change, including the forthcoming Lincoln Institute book, Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Planning and Design. Carbonell is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), and Lifetime Honorary Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK). Image: [www.lincolninst.edu](https://www.lincolninst.edu/node/24801 "lincolninst.edu")

Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. Maupin worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. In 1976 he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette.

Arno Kopecky is a Canadian journalist and travel writer. His book The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway won the 2014 Edna Staebler Award, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards. In addition to his books, Kopecky has also been published in newspapers and magazines including The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Reader's Digest, Maclean's, The Tyee and Foreign Policy. He lives in Squamish, British Columbia.

From the age of 17 Arno Michaelis was deeply involved in the white power movement. He was a founding member of what became the largest racist skinhead organization in the world, a reverend of self-declared Racial Holy War, and lead singer of the race-metal band Centurion, selling over 20,000 CDs to racists round the world.

Arnold Caplan, Ph.D. is Professor of Biology and the Director of the Skeletal Research Center at Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Caplan did a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University, followed by Postdoctoral Fellowships at Brandeis University with Dr. N.O. Kaplan and Dr. E. Zwilling. He joined the Case Western Reserve University Biology faculty in 1969, becoming a full Professor in 1981. His awards include the Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award given by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Kappa Delta Awards Program (1990), the Marshall R. Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration Research from the Orthopaedic Research Society (1999), and the Genzyme Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Cartilage Repair Society (2007). He was Visiting Professor in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School (1973) and Edna and Jacob Michael Visiting Professor of Biophysics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (1984). In 1976 Prof. Caplan was in the Laboratory of Pierre Chambon at the Institute de Chimie Biologique, Faculty of Medicine de Strasbourg. A national and international scholar focusing on experimentation in musculoskeletal and skin development, he has trained over 125 researchers and published over 350 papers and manuscripts. His pioneering research on Mesenchymal Stem Cells has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and other non-profit and for-profit agencies.