People

Belle Boggs has published work in *Glimmer Train*, *Oxford American*, and *Best New American Voices 2003*. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine and grew up in King William County, Virginia.

Ben Birnbaum has worked at Boston College in marketing, communications, public relations, and strategic planning since 1978. His current titles are: Special Assistant to the President; Executive Director, Office of Marketing Communications; Editor, Boston College Magazine; Executive Director, Boston College Front Row; Executive Producer, @BC; and Editorial Director, Linden Lane Press at Boston College. Ben is also a writer of fiction and essays in publications that include *Penthouse*, *Tri-Quarterly Review*, *Midstream*, *Boston Globe*, *Atlantic*, *Harvard Divinity Review*, *Image*, *Moment*, *Nextbook*. He is the editor of a collection of essays, *Take Heart: Catholic Writers on Hope in Our Time* (Crossroad, 2007). His honors include Simon Rockower Award from American Jewish Journalists Association (2006); Best Spiritual Writing (HarperCollins, 2001); Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); God Is Love (Augsburg, 2002); forthcoming Best Spiritual Writing, 2008. Ben earned a B.S. at Ner Israel Rabbinical College; a BA at Queens College; and an M.Ed. at the University of Vermont. He is an elected and appointed official in the Town of Brookline, including Town Meeting Member (1996). Ben was elected to the board in 2008.

Ben Bradlee, born in 1921, vice president and executive editor of the *Washington Post* when that newspaper published the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles that initially exposed the Watergate scandal. Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1942. He began his journalism career in 1946 as a reporter at the New Hampshire Sunday News. From 1948 to 1961 he wrote for the *Washington Post* and *Newsweek* magazine, working variously as a Washington, D.C., bureau reporter and as a European correspondent. While a reporter for *Newsweek*, Bradlee lived near then-Senator John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Evett is a well-known actor, director, and producer in the Boston area. Before joining the Poets’ Theatre, he was the Founding Artistic Director of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, which he sherpherded from a small start-up to a mainstay of the regional theatre scene during his tenure from 2004 to 2009.

Ben Ewen-Campen is a City Councilor in Somerville, MA and a biologist at Harvard Medical School. As a City Councillor, Ben gained a groundswell of support campaigning on a platform rooted in creating affordable living options in Somerville, pledging to offset taxes and create jobs, to preserve green space, and to improve infrastructure. In June 2019, Ben led the campaign against facial recognition technology in Somerville, becoming the first East Coast city to ban its use.

Ben Goldfarb is an independent journalist and the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018), which the Washington Post called “a masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world.” He is currently at work on his second book, on the ecological history of roads. Image: Public domain

Ben Greenman is an editor at the *New Yorker* and the author of several acclaimed books of fiction, including, *Superbad*, *A Circle is a Balloon*, *Compass Both*, and the funk-rock novel *Please Step Back*. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in numerous publications, including *The New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, *The Paris Review,* *Zoetrope*, *McSweeney's*, and *Opium*, and he has been widely anthologized. He is also a regular contributor to the online music site moistworks.com.

Ben H. Winters is an American author, journalist and playwright, who is best known for the 2009 parody novel, *Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters*, which reached the New York Times best seller list in September 2009. His second novel, *Android Karenina* (Quirk Books), will be published in June of 2010; his young adult novel, *The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman*, will be published by HarperCollins in September, 2010.

Ben Holden is a Data Science Graduate Student at the University of Colorado - Boulder, as well as a Suffolk University alum where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economy (PPE). Since beginning his college career, he has spent a number of years as an assisting researcher focusing on globalization and economics. He also dedicated time to analyzing the American workers and automation, while depicting the causes behind market disruptions and workforce displacement. He has held various positions in institutions such as the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, The Beacon Hill Institute, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Ben has shared stories, including with the New York Times Magazine, about how aligning right-of-center and being a member of the LGBTQ community creates often stirring interactions with other conservatives who believe they're on the same page. He is mostly liberal on social issues, but believes solutions are best derived in a symbiosis between a free market and limited but effective government. Having undergone an evolution, he disapproves of ideological purity, partisanship, and polarization, and is therefore skeptical of most forms of activism. He believes that problems are best solved by working in the private sector, and is currently completing his Master of Science in Data Science out in Colorado.

Ben is a Creative Director on the Art, Copy & Code team at Google whose focus is to explore the future of advertising through innovative projects with brands and their agencies. His work takes him inside virtually all of the major US advertisers and the top advertising agencies, helping shape them for this digital / mobile age. He came from Hill Holliday, where he worked on Dunkin Donuts, Johnson and Johnson and Major League Baseball. Prior to that, he was at Digitas, where he ran global loyalty for IHG, and led campaigns for Holiday Inn, Samsung, and SAP, among many others, including providing the voice of the Aflac Duck in social media. His past life includes being the Dean of Admissions at Bennington College, building a network of early stage venture funds with Village Ventures, and publishing The Rope Eater, a novel, with Doubleday.