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**Admiral James Stavridis**, USN (Ret.) is chairman of the Board of Counselors of McLarty Global Associates, an international consulting firm, and an operating executive of the Carlyle Group, an international private equity firm. He spent more than thirty years in the U.S. Navy, rising to the rank of four-star Admiral. He was the Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and previously commanded U.S. Southern Command, overseeing military operations in Latin America. At sea, he commanded a Navy destroyer, a destroyer squadron, and an aircraft carrier battle group in combat. He holds a Ph.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he recently served five years as dean. He has published nine previous books and hundreds of articles and is a frequent national and international television commentator as well as a Bloomberg Opinion weekly columnist, and a monthly columnist for TIME Magazine.

Adora Brown is the summer 2024 GBH News investigative intern.

Adoyo Owuor is the Founder and Executive Director of Zamani Foundation. She received her BA from the University of California, Davis where she concentrated on Italian Literature, Music Composition and Art.

Adria Steinberg is the associate vice president of Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit organization that promotes innovative reform in education and workforce development. She has almost four decades of experience in the field of education as a teacher, administrator, researcher, and writer. Combining knowledge of practice, policy, and research, her articles and books have made her a key contributor to the national conversation about high school reform.

**Adrian Chastain Weimer** is a historian of colonial America and early modern religion and politics and associate professor at Providence College. Her other interests include toleration and the contributions of religious minorities to colonial American thought and political culture. Adrian's work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Young Scholars in American Religion program, and most recently through 2017-2018 NEH Long-term Research Fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society. Photo: [Providence College](https://history.providence.edu/faculty-members/adrian-chastain-weimer/ "Adrian Chastain Weimer - Providence College")

Adrian Tinniswood is a native of Derby in the UK. Born in 1954, he followed a degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Southampton with a Masters in Philosophy on 'Minor Poets of the 1890s' at Leicester.

Walker is a columnist for *the Boston Globe* city/region section. He provides commentary and opinion on local and regional news as well as society and culture. Walker started as a *Boston Globe* metro columnist in 1998.

Adriana Bosch's career with WGBH television spans thirty years. Some of her works include presidential biographies for PBS's *American Experience*, including Ulysses S. Grant, Jimmy Carter, Reagan, Ike, The Rockefellers and The Churchills. She has won numerous awards including an Emmy, Peabody and Christopher award. After receiving a BA in political science from Rutgers University, she moved to Boston where she graduated Tufts University with a Ph.D.

**Adriana Lafaille** joined the ACLU of Massachusetts as a legal fellow in October 2012 and became a staff attorney in November 2015. She has focused on immigration detention and immigrants' rights issues. The Massachusetts Bar Association selected her as the 2015 Access to Justice Rising Star, and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s 2015 “Excellence in the Law” event recognized her as an “Up and Coming” lawyer. Before joining the ACLU of Massachusetts, Adriana clerked for the Hon. Ralph D. Gants on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and for the Hon. Mark L. Wolf in the District of Massachusetts. Adriana graduated from Harvard Law School in 2010 and is a native speaker of Spanish and Portuguese.

Adriana (she/they) was a news intern at NHPR in the summer of 2023, reporting on environment, energy and climate news as part of By Degrees. Originally from Ohio, they graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism in June 2023.

Dr. Dixson is the Executive Director of the Education and Civil Rights Initiative, and a Professor of Educational Leadership Studies. Her research primarily focuses on how race, class and gender intersect and impact educational equity in urban schooling contexts. She locates her research within two theoretical frameworks: Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Black feminist theories.

U.S. poet, scholar, and critic, Adrienne Rich was a student at Radcliffe College when her poems were chosen for publication in the Yale Younger Poets series; the resulting volume, *A Change of World* (1951), reflected her formal mastery. Her subsequent work traces a transformation from well-crafted but imitative poetry to a highly personal and powerful style. Her increasing commitment to the women's movement and a lesbian/feminist aesthetic influenced much of her work. Among her collections are *Diving into the Wreck* (1973, National Book Award) and *The Dream of a Common Language* (1978). She also wrote compelling books of nonfiction, including *Of Woman Born *(1976; National Book Award), *On Lies, Secrets, and Silence* (1979), and *What Is Found There* (1993).

Aeron has worked on Troy Boston, a 380-unit apartment building in downtown Boston. The goal? Deliver sustainable urban living solutions through design. It was a project that let her engage in the challenge of architecture—solving a lot of different problems with an open mind. One problem that she’s set her sights on recently is the question of living small in urban spaces. With the WHAT’S IN housing research initiative, Aeron and her team are researching and testing new models for urban housing—as small as 450SF a home. When she’s not working, you can find her teaching at Roger Williams University where she’s been a design studio professor.

Afaa Michael Weaver (b. Michael S. Weaver) has been a Pew fellow, a Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. Most recently he received the May Sarton Award. His 10th collection of poetry is *The Plum Flower Dance*. Afaa works with poets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and holds an endowed chair at Simmons College.