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Barbara K. Bodine, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was Diplomat in Residence at the University of Southern California, Santa Barbara. She last served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen. During her posting in Sanaa, the U.S.S. Cole was bombed in a terrorist attack. In 1999, she negotiated for hours to release three Americans kidnapped in Yemen. Following Kuwait, Ambassador Bodine was the Associate Coordinator for Operations and later served as the Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism. She went on to serve as the Dean of Professional Studies at the Department's Foreign Service Institute. She has worked on the secretariat staff of Secretaries Kissinger and Vance, and as a Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Robert Dole. Ambassador Bodine was born in 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned her B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She received her Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts. She also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Department of State's Language Training Field Schools in Taiwan and Tunisia. She was the recipient of the UC Santa Barbara Distinguished Alumni Award in 1991.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is a former award-winning religion correspondent for National Public Radio and is a former reporter for the Christian Science Monitor. She is author of the book, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality. She is currently a contributor to The Atlantic and NPR.

Barbara Brandon-Croft was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. After debuting her comic strip Where I’m Coming From in the Detroit Free Press in 1989, Brandon-Croft became the first Black woman cartoonist to be published nationally by a major syndicate. During its 15 year run, Where I’m Coming From appeared in over 65 newspapers across the USA and Canada, as well as Jamaica, South Africa, and Barbados. Her comics are in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. Brandon-Croft lives in Queens.

Barbara Brown Taylor teaches religion at Piedmont College in rural northeast Georgia and is an adjunct professor of spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. She is the author of twelve books. An at-large editor for *The Christian Century*, Taylor lives on a working farm with her husband and a yard full of animals.

Mrs. Delorey, a member of the reenactment community going back to before the bicentennial days, is a consultant, writer, lecturer, historic interpreter and costumer. She is editor of the *The Circle of the Rose*, a publication for historical interpreters and reenactors. She holds membership in the Costume Society of America, The Costume Society (UK), and The Company of Military Historians. Mrs. Delorey has been a symposium speaker at the MFA Boston, and Costume Society symposia in Ohio, New Hampshire & Massachusetts and has held workshops and programs for numerous historical and genealogical societies. In the Museum of Fine Arts Boston she had five years experience in the Costume and Textile Department conservation lab and as a research associate in curatorial, and was also curator of collections at the Braintree Historical Society, She is currently serving a 3-year term as Massachusetts State Historian, Daughters of the American Revolution, where she also holds 3 chairmanships-- Commemorative Events, George Washington Bicentennial Committee and Revolution 225.

Barbara Berenson is the author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers (2018), Boston in the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution (2014), and Walking Tours of Civil War Boston: Hub of Abolitionism (2011, 2d ed. 2014). She is the co-editor of Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts (2012). Barbara earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and her law degree from Harvard Law School. She worked as a Senior Attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court until June 2019. She is on the boards of Boston By Foot and the Royall House & Slave Quarters.

In addition to her role at Georgetown University, Barbara Feinman Todd is the author of Speaking for Myself: A Ghostwriter's Sorry Tale. She has also worked for the Style section of The Washington Post, edited and researched for senators, journalists and business leaders, as well as worked on several high-profile books such as Benjamin Bradlee's A Good Life and Hillary Clinton's It Takes a Village.

Barbara Ferrer PhD, MPH, M Ed, is the Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission. Dr. Ferrer was appointed to lead the Commission in 2007 based on her years of public health experience and her commitment to serving the needs of all Bostonians, particularly vulnerable populations. She had previously spent five years as the Commissions Deputy Director where she played a key role working on topics ranging from AIDS, to developing strategies to reduce Bostons infant mortality rate. She also helped launch the city's groundbreaking work to end racial and ethnic health disparities. Dr. Ferrer holds a masters in Public Health from Boston University and a Doctorate from the Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University, where she was a Pew Doctoral Fellow.

Barbara Graham has been working as an essayist and journalist for twenty-five years. Some of the magazines in which her articles have appeared are:* O, The Oprah Magazine*, *Time*, *More*, *National Geographic Traveler*, *Food & Wine*, *Glamour*, *People*, *Redbook*, *Self*, *Tricycle*, *Utne Reader*, and *Vogue*. She and her husband live in Washington, DC.

Barbara Haber is the author of *From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals*. Praise for the book came from *Julia Child*, *Gourmet Magazine*, and other food notables as well as academic historians, and a chapter appeared in Best Food Writing 2002. Haber has also written on food topics for *Harvard Magazine*, *Yankee Magazine*, the *Los Angeles Times*, the *Dictionary of American History*, *Notable American Women* and many other popular and professional publications, including *Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking* and *From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies*, which she co-edited with Arlene Avakian. Barbara Haber currently serves on the awards board of the James Beard Foundation where she initiated and serves as curator for Beard on Books, a speaker series featuring notable food writers and cookbook authors.

Barbara Hamm Lee has served as WHRO's Chief Community Engagement Officer since January, 2008, responsible for local television productions and programming. She is executive producer and host of Another View, a program that examines issues of particular interest to the African-American community in Hampton Roads (Friday nights at 9pm.) She also serves as back-up host for HearSay, the award winning noon talk show heard on 89.5WHRV-FM. Barbara currently serves on the boards of the Hermitage Museum and Samaritan House. She was appointed by Governor Kaine to the Virginia Fire Services Board (2007-2009); and is a former board member of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia, Youth Entertainment Studios and the Governor's School for the Arts Foundation. She was named a "Woman of Distinction" by the YWCA in 2010.

Barbara Hannigan is a soprano and conductor, Artist in Residence with the Gothenburg and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras and conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and Münich Philharmonic in 2015 to 2016. The Berliner Philharmoniker commissioned her to sing Hans Abrahamsen's \_let me tell you\_, which she recorded in January 2016 and subsequently premiered in the US with the Cleveland Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Barbara Helfgott-Hyett has published five collections of poetry, most recently *Rift*. Her poems and essays have appeared in hundreds of journals and magazines, and she has been awarded numerous poetry prizes and national fellowships. She has taught English at Harvard, MIT, and Boston University, where she won the Sproat Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is the director of PoemWorks: The Workshop for Publishing Poets, in Brookline, MA, and has taught for many years at BU, Harvard, Trinity, and MIT. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.

Barbara Howard is the former anchor of WGBH’s All Things Considered.