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Audrey Porter is the Assistant Director and the Coordinator of Survivor Services of The My Life My Choice Project (MLMC). Porter has been an integral part of MLMC since 2003 and was the first survivor in Massachusetts to begin mentoring exploited girls. Drawing from her personal experience in “the Life”, Porter seeks to help vulnerable girls avoid prostitution and/or leave exploitation behind them. She has served as a consultant to the Administrative Office of the Trial Court’s “Redesigning the Court’s Response to Prostitution” project. Porter is a 2008 recipient of the prestigious Petra Foundation Fellowship.

Audrey Schulman co-founded HEET in 2008. Featured in the Washington Post as a Climate Hero, she created the first-in-the-nation statewide zoomable public map of utility-reported gas leaks. She started the Large Volume Leak Study, which discovered a way for gas utilities to identify super-emitting gas leaks and repair them. She has helped develop HEET’s innovative solution to transition gas utilities from gas to networked geothermal, or systems of networked ground source heat pumps. Schulman is also the author of six novels, which have been translated into 12 languages and reviewed by The New Yorker, The Economist and CNN.

Augustine Conduah practices orthopedic surgery, with a specialty in sports medicine. His academic history includes a fellowship at Hughston Sports Medicine Hospital and a medical degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Peabody Essex Musuem's Head Curator **Austen Barron Bailly** leads talk on exhibition \_American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood. \_ Bailly previously worked as the Head of the American Art Department at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA). She also held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wildenstein & Co. Inc. in New York. [Photo Credit](http://www.pem.org/press/press\_release/231-pem\_appoints\_first\_curator\_of\_american\_art "")

Austin Blackmon is the Chief of the City of Boston's Environment, Energy, and Open Space cabinet. He represented Boston at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, where the city received a C40 award for Smart Cities and Smart Community Engagement.

Austin Hoyt was a Producer and Executive Producer at WGBH Boston from March 1965 to March 2003 when he founded his own company, Austin Hoyt Productions. Hoyt won a Peabody Award for his contributions to American Experience's special series of Presidential portraits and biographies of Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower.

Austin is an analyst for GTM Research covering downstream demand for the U.S. solar market. Prior to joining GTM Research, Austin worked at The Boston Consulting Group, where he supported the energy practice as a research associate. During his undergraduate tenure at the University of New Hampshire, he spent time in Egypt and Jordan researching the potential for Islamic microfinance in poverty alleviation and established the first sustainable investment sector in the University's student-run investment group. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science and a minor in Middle Eastern Studies.

Avery Bleichfeld is science editor and staff reporter at the Bay State Banner.

Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, has been the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. An internationally known author and lecturer, he received his primary school education in New York City, and attended secondary schools in Switzerland and New England. After graduating from Harvard College in 1940, he spent a year and a half in Harvard Law School before serving in the United States Navy, emerging with the rank of lieutenant. Past President of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Society and Professor Emeritus at The Catholic University of America, Cardinal Dulles has served on the International Theological Commission and as a member of the United States Lutheran/Roman Catholic Dialogue. Cardinal Dulles served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974 and that of The Catholic University of America from 1974 to 1988. He has been a visiting professor at: The Gregorian University (Rome), Weston School of Theology, Union Theological Seminary (New York, NY), Princeton Theological Seminary, Episcopal Seminary (Alexandria, VA), Lutheran Theological Seminary (Gettysburg, PA), Boston College, Campion Hall (Oxford University), the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University at Leuven, Yale University, and St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie.

Avidan Cover, J.D. is Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy. Cover teaches in the Civil Rights and Human Rights Clinic in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, where he supervises students representing clients in civil lawsuits primarily in the areas of civil rights, including freedom of speech, unlawful force, and housing discrimination as well as documenting human rights abuses. He also teaches courses in constitutional law, race and American law and international humanitarian law. Cover’s scholarship focuses on human rights, civil rights and national security law. He has appeared in numerous news media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, FOX News and Court TV.

Fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany, Avram Alpert is the author of three books, _The Good Enough Life_ (Princeton University Press, 2022) being the latest. Alpert works to understand what values we can live by in a world as connected, chaoticm and potentially catastrophic as the present. After receiving his PhD, he has taught at Rutgers and Princeton University. With Rit Prenmnath, he co-edited and co-managed the programming of _Shifter Magazine_ from 2014-2021. In 2018, with Meleko Mokgosi and Anthea Behm, he cofounded the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program at Jack Shainman Gallery. His other books are : _Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki_ (SUNY Press, 2019) and _A Partial Enlightenment : What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well without Perfection_ (Columbia University Press, 2021). His writing has also appeared in _Aeon_, _The Chronicle of Higher Education_, _the Los Angeles Review of Books_, _The New York Times_, _the Washington Post_, _Truhout_, and elsewhere.