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Bertha Merrill Holt is a former North Carolina state representative.

Beth Daley took the lead as Editor and General Manager at The Conversation in March 2019. Prior to that, Daley covered the environment, science and education at NECIR and Inside Climte. For almost two decades Daley covered the environment for The Boston Globe and won numerous awards for her work including being named a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Beth Decker is where creativity meets accessibility.

Beth manages all aspects of the OutPost’s daily operation and takes care of client scheduling.

As director at the Massachusetts Voter Table, Beth Huang works with over 25 community organizations to increase voter turnout and civic leadership in communities of color and working-class people in Massachusetts. Beth serves on the Steering Committees of Raise Up Massachusetts and the Election Modernization Coalition and convenes MassCounts, a coalition that works with nonprofits to achieve a complete count in the 2020 Census. Prior to joining MVT as the Field Coordinator in 2016, Beth worked at Jobs With Justice as the National Coordinator of the Student Labor Action Project. Beth is a senior trainer with the Midwest Academy. She hails from Wisconsin, where she became politicized through fights for workers' rights and racial justice, and holds a bachelors of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Beth Lambert is the Director of the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration (DER), part of the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game. She oversees a 30-person agency whose mission is to restore and protect rivers, wetlands, and watersheds for the benefit of people and the environment. DER staff work in partnership with communities, landowners, non-profit organizations, and state and federal agencies on projects that restore habitat and help people and nature adapt to climate change. Over the last 15 years, the Division has removed 60 dams in partnership with federal, state, municipal, and NGO organizations. Beth has 20 years of experience with river and watershed restoration in Oregon, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

**Beth Orcutt, Ph.D.** is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, where she leads a team specialized in the study of deep-sea microbial life and the impact of microbial activity on chemical cycles. Recently she has been leading efforts to understand the ecosystem services that microbes provide in some of the deep-sea ecosystems that may be targeted for deep-sea mining and subseafloor carbon sequestration.

Beth is the Director of Transportation for America. She was previously at the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy since 2009. At DOT, Beth managed the TIGER Discretionary Grant program, the Secretary’s livability initiative, the development of the Administration’s surface transportation authorization proposal, and the implementation of MAP-21. Before joining DOT, Beth worked for Sen. Tom Carper (DE) as an advisor for transportation, trade and labor policy, as the policy director for Smart Growth America and as legislative director for environmental policy at the Southern Governors’ Association. She began her career in Washington, DC, in the House of Representatives working as a legislative assistant for Rep. Ron Klink (PA-04) and as legislative director for Rep. Brian Baird (WA-03).

Beth is an experienced program and project manager with experience in the financial, federal government, insurance, and retail industries. She is a creative team leader with a successful track record in project delivery and systems process redesign. Additionally, Beth has experience in executing system development lifecycle activities including requirements gathering, business analysis, solution testing, and end user training.

Beth Teitell is a features writer at the Boston Globe. She aims to capture the zeitgeist of modern culture by writing on the intersection of technology, the economy, sports and politics with everyday life. Her on-air commentaries run on public radio’s popular Marketplace program and she appears regularly on local radio and TV.

BETH TRUESDALE has been examining many of these considerations in her book “Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer” (co-authored with Lisa Berkman). Truesdale is a sociologist whose research focuses on inequalities in work and aging, and the future of retirement. She has worked on social policy in the U.K. and on disability policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget. She holds a PhD from Harvard University where she is a visiting scientist in the Center for Population and Development Studies, and she is also a research fellow at W E Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Bethanne Patrick has always been an enthusiastic and engaged reader of books, so when she started writing about authors and publishing in 1996, she brought her own interest to the stories she told and the writers she interviewed. In 2001, after years of freelance writing, Patrick joined the team of *PAGES Magazine* as editor at large. In 2004 she launched the now defunct AOL Books Channel, reaching more readers than ever before through the largest web portal in the world and where her book critic channel, "The Book Maven," was born. Under "The Book Maven," Patrick started a blog for Publishers Weekly, became the moderator for Barnes & Noble's first online book club, "Centerstage," and became managing editor of "The WETA Book Studio" a project of WETA Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C. Patrick also regularly writes for AARP, PEOPLE magazine, *The Washington Post* Book World, Barnes & Noble Review, and Bookreporter.com. She has also written a book for National Geographic entitled *An Uncommon History of Common Things*, out now. Currently, Patrick is working on a memoir entitled *Broken*.

**Bethany Van Delft** is an award-winning comedian. She was recently named Boston Magazine’s “Best Comic.” Her comedy album I’m Not a Llama spent time at #2 on the iTunes charts. She is a passionate advocate for her daughter who was born with Down syndrome.

Economic justice activist Betsy Leondar-Wright is the communications director at United for a Fair Economy. She has worked in mixed-class movements for over 25 years. Betsy Leondar-Wright is a long-time economic justice activist who has been Communications Director at United for a Fair Economy since 1998. A veteran of many conflicts along class and race lines, she has worked across class lines in a number of roles.