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Susan Bellows is a Senior Producer at American Experience. She is known for her work on American Experience (1988), Dancing (1993) and Die Luftbrücke (2005).

Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She was the Founding Executive Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, from 2000 to 2003; and from 2003 to 2006 she served as Research Director. Kellerman has also held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, Uppsala, and Dartmouth. She also served as Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Fairleigh Dickinson, and as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the University of Maryland. [Harvard.edu](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/barbara-kellerman "Barbara Killerman")

Barbara Ladd works in late 19th and 20th Century American literature, specializing in southern literature with particular interests in race, gender, trans(south) Atlantic studies, Americas studies, Americas modernism, and William Faulkner. She is the author of *Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty (LSU 2007)* and *Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (LSU 1997)*. Professor Ladd is currently working on a book dealing with trans(south) Atlantic routes in southern literatures and editing a collection of essays on William Faulkner written chiefly by scholars from the southern regions of the globe. She holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990), an MA from the University of Texas at Austin (1985), and an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1981).

Congresswoman Barbara Lee was first elected to represent California's 9th Congressional District in 1998 in a special election to fill the seat of retiring Congressman Ron Dellums. A member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, Congresswoman Lee serves on the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, the State and Foreign Operations and the Financial Services Subcommittees. Additionally, she serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee on the subcommittees on Western Hemisphere and Africa and Global Health. Congresswoman Lee was sworn in as the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on January 6, 2009. The 42-member CBC is one of the longest standing caucuses in Congress and is often referred to as the conscience of the Congress for their willingness to tackle the most serious social and economic issues facing minorities in the United States. Born in El Paso Texas, Congresswoman Lee graduated from Mills College in Oakland and received her MSW from the University of California in Berkeley. She began her political career as an intern in the office of her predecessor, then Congressman Ron Dellums, current Mayor of Oakland, where she eventually became his chief of staff. Before being elected to Congress, she served in the California State Assembly from 1990-1996 and in the California State Senate from 1996-1998.

Barbara Lewis is an Associate Professor of English at the College of Liberal Arts and the Director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black History and Culture. She has expertise in theater, politics and performance, francophone literature, and cultural history. Image: [University of Massachusetts Boston](https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/barbara\_lewis "University of Massachusetts Boston")

An embodiment of the American dream, Barbara Lynch, who once could only fantasize about escaping from the projects of South Boston, is the James Beard Award-winning chef-owner of a $10 million aggregate of restaurants and food businesses in Boston called Barbara Lynch Gruppo. It includes No. 9 Park, B & G Oysters, The Butcher Shop, Plum Produce, Stir, Drink, and Sportello. A hometown heroine known for her generous giving back to the disadvantaged and the Southie communities, she has become a national star featured in the pages of *Gourmet*, *Food & Wine*, *The New York Times*, and more. She is the recipient of the 2009 Amelia Earhart Award, which honored Julia Child, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Suze Orman. She lives in Winchester, MA. In her new cookbook, *Stir*, she shows how to make the robustly flavored dishes that combine sophistication with practicality and have earned her national acclaim.

Barbara McClintock is an American illustrator and author of children's books. McClintock was born in Flemington, NJ on May 6, 1955 and spent her early childhood in Clinton, NJ. She moved to North Dakota with her mother and sister when she was nine years old. After attending Jamestown College in Jamestown, North Dakota, she moved to New York City a week following her 20th birthday on the recommendation of Maurice Sendak, whom she called to ask advice about how to become a children's book illustrator. McClintock studied briefly at The Art Students League of New York. She worked for Jim Henson, illustrating books for his Fraggle Rock cable television series early in her career. Her books have won numerous awards, including four New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Books, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor award, two Time Magazine Best Books, eight NY Public Library 100 Recommended Books, a Golden Kite award, two Parents Choice, an ALA Notable Book, a NEBA, starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, SLJ, Kirkus and Horn Book. The Minneapolis Children's Theatre made a ballet/opera of her book *Animal Fables From Aesop*.

Barbara Rubel is the director of Community Relations at Tufts University.

Barbara currently co-directs Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, Institute for Community Development and the Arts, funded by the Ford Foundation. Launched in fall 1999, Animating Democracy's purpose is to foster artistic activity that encourages civic dialogue on important contemporary issues. Barbara has worked as a consultant since 1990, and prior to that she served as executive director of the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts where she was on staff for 13 years. Her work with partner Pam Korza includes program design and evaluation for state and local arts agencies and private foundations nationally. Projects include strategic plans for the Heinz Endowment's Arts and Culture programs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a 20-year review of the North Carolina Arts Council's Grassroots Arts Program, and cultural plans for Northampton, MA, and Rapid City, SD. Barbara has written, edited, and contributed to several publications, including the revised edition of *Fundamentals of Local Arts Management* and *The Cultural Planning Work Kit*, published by the Arts Extension Service. She is an arts management educator, serving as a primary instructor for the "Fundamentals and Advanced Management" seminars, guest lecturer for the New York University Graduate Program in Arts Management, and a senior faculty member for the Empire State Partnerships' Summer Institute in arts education. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Barbara has served as a panelist and adviser for many state and national arts agencies. She is president of the Arts Extension Institute, Inc., a board member of the Fund for Women Artists, and chair of her local school committee.

Barbara Sjoholm was born in Long Beach, California, but has spent most of her adult life in the Pacific Northwest and Europe. She now lives in Port Townsend, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. As a novelist, memoirist, translator, and mystery writer, Barbara Sjoholm has been both prolific and innovative. Many readers know her as Barbara Wilson, author of two successful, offbeat mystery series: one with Pam Nilsen, *A Printer in Seattle*, and a second with Cassandra Reilly, an *American Translator of Spanish*, based in London. These mysteries have sold over 100,000 copies and are translated into five languages. They cross boundaries in making feminist and social issues part of the plot. Gaudi Afternoon, set in Barcelona, was awarded a British Crime Writers' award and a Lambda Literary Award. In 2001, a film of *Gaudi Afternoon* was released, with Judy Davis in the title role of Cassandra Reilly and Marcia Gay Harden as Frankie. Barbara has also published several collections of short stories and three novels.

Barbara Maria Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Emerita, at the University of Chicago. Her work has consistently explored the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era. Her current research charts the revolutionary ways the neurosciences are changing our views of the human and animal sensorium, shaping our fundamental assumptions about perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity. Staffords most recent book is *Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images*, University of Chicago Press, 2007.