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Barbara Thorp has been director of the Pro-Life Office of the Archdiocese of Boston since 1985 and is on the executive boards of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing, the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, and Women Affirming Life.

Although Barbara Walters would later downplay her relationship with the feminist movement, her early career is marked by a number of moves that were in part responsible for breaking down the all-male facade of U.S. network news. A *Today Show* regular for 15 years, including two years as the show's first official female co-host, she was a visible presence in, at first, the program's "feature" segments, then going on to covering "hard news"--including serving as part of the NBC News team sent to cover President Richard Nixon's historic visit to the People's Republic of China in 1972. Her most controversial first involved her decision in 1976 to leave Today to co-anchor the ABC Evening News with Harry Reasoner (the first time a woman was allowed the privileged position of network evening anchor) for a record-breaking seven-figure salary. Public reaction to both her salary and approach to the news, which critics claimed led to the creeping "Infotainment" mentality which threatens traditional reporting, undercut ABC News ratings, and she was quickly bumped from the anchor desk. After this public relations disaster, Walters undertook a comeback on ABC with The Barbara Walters Specials, an occasional series of interviews with heads of state, newsmakers, sports figures and Hollywood celebrities that have consistently topped the ratings and made news in themselves. In 1977, she arranged the first joint interview with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin; she has since interviewed six U.S. Presidents, as well as political figures as diverse as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, U.S. presidential contender Ross Perot, and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin. In 1984, ABC returned her to an anchor desk as co-host of the newsmagazine *20/20*. Walters began her career in broadcast journalism as a writer for CBS News.

Barnabas Daru, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Biology and Curator of the Ruth O’Brien Herbarium at Texas A&M University. His research has sought to address two main goals that are fundamental to ecology and evolutionary biology of plants. The first is to gain a mechanistic understanding of the processes by which plant species diversity has evolved and is currently distributed and maintained. The second is to leverage specimen accessibility and emerging innovations in informatics, phylogenetics, and niche modeling to develop tools for conservation that will mitigate future biodiversity loss. To achieve these goals, he has built a field and laboratory research program that is highly collaborative and draws expertise from diverse approaches in science to characterize broad biodiversity patterns. Funding for the lab comes from the National Science Foundation.

Barnaby Evans is an artist who works in many media, including site-specific sculpture installations, photography, film, garden design, architectural projects, writing, and conceptual works. His original training was in the sciences, but he has been working exclusively as an artist for more than 25 years. Evans is best known for WaterFire, a sculpture that he installed on the three rivers of downtown Providence. In 1994, he created First Fire to celebrate the tenth anniversary of First Night Providence; in June 1996, he created Second Fire for the International Sculpture Conference and the Convergence International Arts Festival in Providence. With hundreds of volunteers and the broad support of the community, he established WaterFire as an on-going installation in 1997. Evans also created WaterFire Houston in 1998 and installed Moving Water for the Institute of Contemporary Arts Vita Brevis Program in Boston in 2001. Evans is currently exploring art installations for a number of other cities including St. Petersburg. Barnaby Evans received his Bachelors degree in biology and environmental science from Brown University in 1975. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities by Brown University and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Rhode Island College, both in 2000.rnational Triennial Exhibition (in Switzerland) and Providences Renaissance Award in 1997.

Barney Frank is the United States House Representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district since 1981 and a member of the Democratic Party. In 1982 he won his first full term and has been re-elected ever since by wide margins. In 1987 he became the second openly gay member of the House of Representatives, and has become one of the most prominent openly gay politicians in the United States. In 2007 Frank became the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee when the Democratic Party won a majority in the House of Representatives. The committee oversees the housing and banking industries.

Baron Wormser, while working as a librarian and writing poetry for 25 years, lived with his family in Mercer Maine, in an off-the-grid house on 48 acres. His memoir, *The Road Washes Out in the Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid* concerns that experience. He was Poet Laureate of Maine. He now lives in Vermont. Since 2002 he has taught at the University of Southern Maine MFA program. He is author of eight poetry books and three books of prose.

Barry Bluestone is the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, the founding Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and the founding Dean of the School of Social Science, Urban Affairs, and Public Policy at Northeastern University in Boston. Before assuming these posts, Bluestone spent 12 years at the University of Massachusetts at Boston as the Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy and as a Senior Fellow at the University's John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. In 1982, he published The *Deindustrialization of America *(co-authored with the late Bennett Harrison) which analyzed the restructuring of American industry and its economic and social impact on workers and communities. A sequel published in 1988, *The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America*, also co-authored with Harrison, investigated how economic policies have contributed to growing inequality.

Barry Carr is currently Vice President of Alternative Transportation for Homeland Energy Resources Development and has been involved in the alternative fuel vehicle industry since 1989. He provides training, sales, marketing, public relations and representation for the natural gas powered Honda Civic GX. In the past, Barry has provided prototyping, engineering support, project management and field testing for several vehicle manufacturers, as well as state and federal agencies. Barry is a graduate of Clarkson Universitys Mechanical/Industrial Engineering Program, and lives in upstate New York with his family. Barry is also the Coordinator of Clean Communities of Central New York, part of the U.S. DOE Clean Cities Program.

Barry Clegg has been professional editor within the Boston area for the last ten years. With extensive knowledge of non-linear edit systems as well as animation programs, he continually provides high end productions for his clients including those within the broadcast, retail, corporate, health care and financial industries. Barry’s work in post production started back in high school participating in the country’s only high school internship program with Avid Technologies and continued through college through internships with Reebok and the National Association of Broadcasters. At Cramer Productions in Norwood, MA Barry was a Senior Editor for one of the largest post-production departments in New England. Along the way Barry has worked on a number of short films, being part of the only two time winner of the Boston 48 Hour Film Project, with the second film “Conversion” being an official selection to the Cannes Film Festival. Throughout the years Barry has built up an extensive client base including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jordan’s Furniture, PBS Frontline, Progress Software, Siemens, Subway Sandwiches, The Boston Globe, Fidelity Investments, Solidworks, and EMD Serono.

Barry Costa-Pierce is a professor of Fisheries and Aquaculture and director of the Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program at the University of Rhode Island. Costa-Pierce is also one of the four international editors of Aquaculture, and manages over 540 scientific manuscripts in aquaculture each year. He has over 140 publications, including the editing or authoring of 14 scientific books and monographs and is author of a recent book titled *Ecological Aquaculture*, defined as the ecological design, engineering, systems and trophic ecology of aquatic food production systems. His current research is funded by NOAA, the World Bank, FAO, WWF, the Packard Foundation, and the state of Rhode Island and examines northern bluefin tuna/California sardine aquaculture/ranching/capture fisheries in Baja California, Mexico; zoological and fisheries interactions of blue mussels with pea crabs in southern New England, USA; the development of scientifically credible sustainability indices for mariculture projects worldwide; the nutrient impacts of salmon aquaculture on pelagic ecosystems; and the inclusion of fisheries/aquaculture science into the "sustainable seafoods" movement. Before coming to URI, Costa-Pierce was a lecturer in the graduate program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From 1985 to 1993 he was a director and research scientist for the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) based at the Institute of Ecology in Bandung, Indonesia then directed for 3 years ICLARM's Africa office in Malawi. He has a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Hawaii and a MS in Zoology from the University of Vermont.

Barry Cotton is a PHB Trustee and direct descendent of Rev. John Cotton. Barry is a historian and is currently working on three books: a biography of Rev. John Cotton, a work titled: TALES OF TWO BOSTONS: How Boston UK Impacted the Founding of Boston USA, and one called COME O COME EMMANUEL: How Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Helped Shape 17th century New England.

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also chairman of the PIIE Advisory Committee, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. From 1997–98 he was senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund, where he worked on issues related to the international financial architecture. His publications include *Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System* (2008); *The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond* (2008); *Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods* (2006); and *Capital Flows and Crises* (2004).

Barry Eisler spent three years with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan. Eisler writes novels and blogs about torture, civil liberties, and law.