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Bella DePaulo, PhD, is the leading expert on single life and has been described by The Atlantic as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” Dr. DePaulo coined the term “single at heart.”

Bella Meyer attained a Ph.D. in Medieval Art History at the Sorbonne in Paris, continuing all the while to paint and draw. She later turned her creative efforts towards designing sets and costumes for the performing arts. Bella's passion for aesthetically beautiful art led her to become a florist. Bella Meyer is the granddaughter of artist Marc Chagall.

Professor Adler specializes in television news. She teaches TV News Production. TV News writing, JRN 3, and Interpreting the Day's News. She comes to the School of Journalism after many years of experience in local news where she was an investigative producer and tape editor. Most recently, she worked at CNN as a producer in the cable network's medical unit where she produced medical stories and was the show producer for a weekly medical show, "Your Health." In addition she worked as the U.N. producer for CNN during the Gulf War and worked in the San Francisco and New York bureaus as an assignment editor, producer and tape editor. Currently, she produces hour-long documentaries for cable networks such as A&E, Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet.

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.