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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.

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*.