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Mr. Zelnick spent 21 years with *ABC News*. He covered national political and congressional affairs from 1994 to 1998. He served as Pentagon correspondent from 1986 to 1994, covering the end of the Cold War and the first Persian Gulf War. Mr. Zelnick reported from Israel from 1984-86 and Moscow, from 1982 to 1984. Before joining ABC News in 1977, Mr. Zelnick covered the Supreme Court for National Public Radio and *the Christian Science Monitor *and served as executive editor of the historic Nixon-Frost Interviews, broadcast in 1977. The holder of two Emmy Awards and two Gavel Awards, Mr. Zelnick began his career in 1967 as a freelance writer from Vietnam and worked in Alaska for *the Anchorage Daily News* in 1968 and 1969. A frequent television analyst and contributor to many newspapers and scholarly journals, Mr. Zelnick is the author of four books, including *Gore: A Political Life*.

Bobby is the Vice President of Research & Measurement at Group Nine Media (parent company of Thrillist, The Dodo, NowThis, Seeker). Bobby started his career at Nielsen in ad effectiveness research. Prior to the launch of Group Nine, Bobby led building the research offering of Thrillist focusing on branded content impact, audience measurement, advertising effectiveness, and customized experimental research. Currently, he's focusing on proving the value of branded content video distributed to social platforms, creating best practices for aligning content against audience interest profiles, and overseeing Group Nine's custom audience research panel, Laboratory Nine.

Bobby Sanabria is a percussionist, drummer, composer, arranger, recording artist, producer, filmmaker, conductor, educator, and the recipient of multiple Grammy nominations. He has worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, and Mario Bauz, among many others. Mr. Sanabria was a consultant in the Smithsonian's historic four year traveling exhibit "Latin Jazz: La Combinacin Perfecta," and was featured in two of the exhibit's short films. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and the New School.

Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott began serving his ninth term as a Member of Congress on January 6, 2009. Prior to serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Scott served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978 to 1983 and in the Senate of Virginia from 1983 to 1993. Rep. Scott's Official Portrait. During his 15-year tenure in the Virginia General Assembly, Rep. Scott successfully sponsored laws that are critical to Virginians in healthcare, education, employment, economic development, crime prevention, social services and consumer protection. His legislative successes included laws that improved healthcare benefits for women, infants and children, increased the Virginia minimum wage and created the Governor's Employment and Training Council. In November 1992, Rep. Scott was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Through this election, Rep. Scott made history by becoming the first African American elected to Congress from Virginia since Reconstruction and only the second African American elected to Congress in Virginia's history. Rep. Scott was born on April 30, 1947 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Newport News, Virginia. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Boston College Law School. After graduating from law school, he returned to Newport News and practiced law from 1973 to 1991. He received an honorable discharge for his service in the Massachusetts National Guard and the United States Army Reserve.

Bonnie Abaunza joined Participant as Vice President, Campaign Development & Operations in May, 2007, where she is responsible for the creation and implementation of advocacy campaigns for Participants films. Prior to Participant, Bonnie served for six years as Director of the Artists for Amnesty program for the United States headquarters of Amnesty International, cultivating relationships with celebrity spokespeople interested in leveraging their visibility to support critical human rights and social justice issues and raising Amnesty Internationals visibility, enhance organizational diversity and attract a new generation of activists through the power of popular media. During her time as Director, Artists for Amnesty has produced four film festivals, four Academy Awards viewing parties to benefit Amnesty, quarterly entertainment industry salons, more than 50 high-profile feature and documentary screening events, and numerous fundraisers, art showings, and educational and promotional events. Bonnie graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, with specialization in International Relations. Recipient of the 2004 Hispanic Heritage Award given by PBS affiliate KCET Los Angeles and Union Bank of California for her singular contributions to the arts and the Latino community, she has also received commendations from the United States Congress (House of Representatives) and from the City of Los Angeles. She currently serves as Board Chair, Artists for Amnesty and on the Board of Casa Libre/Freedom House operated by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.

Bonnie Costello is a professor of English at Boston University. Her most recent book is *Plants on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World*.

Bonnie Docherty is Associate Director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection and a Lecturer on Law at the International Human Rights Clinic. She is also a Senior Researcher in the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch. Docherty specializes in disarmament and international humanitarian law, particularly as they relate to civilian protection during armed conflict. Docherty has worked in the field of humanitarian disarmament since 2001 as lawyer, field researcher, and scholar. Her on-site investigations of cluster munition use in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Georgia helped galvanize international opposition to the weapon. She participated in the negotiations of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions and has promoted strong implementation of the convention since its adoption. More recently, Docherty has applied a humanitarian approach to her work on other indiscriminate or inhumane weapons. She played a key role in the negotiations of the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, successfully advocating for specific provisions and providing legal advice to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the civil society coalition that received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Her many publications on fully autonomous weapons, or "killer robots," have shaped civil society arguments for a preemptive ban on weapons that would select and engage targets without meaningful human control. She has been a global leader in efforts to strengthen international law on incendiary weapons and the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.

Bonnie Weir is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign. She studies the dynamics of violence employed by nonstate, politically‐motivated groups, with a particular interest in their potential decision to adopt peaceful strategies. Along with her substantive interests, Bonnie has focused on methodological shortcomings in the study of civil conflict, insurgency, and terrorism in the social sciences. Her concerns about several approaches that are typically used to test predominant theories on non‐state political violence lead her to conduct an extensive, interview‐based study of the case of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland. She combines individual narratives with local‐level, “spatial” information to enhance our understanding of the often complex and personal nature of conflict and peacemaking among divided communities. Bonnie has worked with Children for Peace in Ireland and other groups in Northern Ireland and the United States whose goal is to help fully implement the institutions stipulated by the Good Friday Agreement and which tend to be lead by ex‐combatants.

The Boston Pops Gospel Choir was originally brought together to perform in the first Gospel Night at POPS in 1993. Gospel Night is a result of the vision and commitment of the Boston Symphony Orchestras Cultural Diversity Committee. This vision was particularly championed by the late Vondal M. Taylor, Jr. (1954-95), who was Vice-Chair of the Cultural Diversity Committee, and an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Cultural Diversity Committee, in its effort to increase the diversity of Symphony Halls patronage, developed Gospel Night to appeal to a broader-than-traditional audience. Gospel Night has since become an annual event that continues to feature the choir. After the death of Vondal Taylor in 1995, Brother Dennis Slaughter, who had performed with the choir since 1993, decided to develop Boston Community Choir as an entity outside of Symphony Hall. Through his efforts and musical direction, the Boston Community Choir has become well-known throughout the Boston area for its inspired and uplifting performances.

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Box Brown is a cartoonist, illustrator and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His comics have been featured in Mad Magazine and his illustrations have been on Wired.com. His web and print comic Everything Dies was named a notable comic of 2011 in the Best American Comics Anthology and was honored with two Ignatz Awards. His comics publishing outfit, Retrofit launched in 2011.