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Senator Brian A. Joyce is serving his sixth term in the Massachusetts State Senate, representing the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth districts. Senator Joyce is the Senate Chair of the Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development as well as the Senate Vice Chair of the Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditure and State Assets, the Senate Vice Chair of the Revenue Committee, and the Senate Vice Chair of the Community Development and Small Business Committee. Prior to joining the Senate, Senator Joyce served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as the 7th Norfolk District State Representative for the towns of Milton and Randolph. Joyce was elected President of his legislative class, representing 32 new Senators and Representatives. A 1984 graduate of the Boston College School of Management and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School, where he was an editor of *the Law Review*, Senator Joyce is a practicing attorney who has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Brian Kyes was born and raised in the City of Chelsea and a graduate of the Chelsea Public School System where he received the Herbert Kupersmith Scholar-Athlete Scholarship. He was originally appointed as a Patrol Officer for the Chelsea Police Department on May 18th of 1987. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on October 21, 1994 and subsequently promoted to Lieutenant on November 22, 1996. As a Lieutenant he worked as the first full-time Internal Affairs Investigator for the department from 1998 until 2002. He was promoted to the rank of Captain on January 30, 2002 where he acted in the capacity of the Criminal Investigation Division Commander and Public Information Officer for over five years until being elevated as the Department’s Chief of Police. He was appointed as the City of Chelsea’s 20th Permanent Police Chief on November 1, 2007. Chief Kyes holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Framingham State College; a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from Anna Maria College; and a Juris Doctorate Degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He is a licensed Attorney at Law in this Commonwealth and a member of the Massachusetts Bar since June of 2003. He has also attended and completed a successful 10-week course of Law Enforcement Management at the FBI National Academy (Session No. 228) in Quantico, Virginia in 2007 and the FBI LEEDA Program (Session No. 61) in 2009. He is also a 1998 graduate of the 20th session of the Senior Management Institute for Police sponsored by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the Police Executive Research Forum. Chief Kyes is a certified Police Ethics Instructor for the Massachusetts Police Training Committee.

Brian Bell is a seasoned radio personality known for his 27-year tenure at WROR. Feedback? Questions? Reach out to Brian at brian_bell@wgbh.org.

Brian Benson is the co-producer of *HOWL,* and the producer of *All About Evil*. Photo courtesy of Bruce Gilbert/Provincetown International Film Festival.

For more than a decade, Professor Braman has been teaching in the philosophy department at Boston College. Before he received his PhD in philosophy, professor Braman pursued a variety of interests. He has lived all over the United States, from Wyoming to California, and has gone through many vocational phases. He has worked as an assistant sales manager, and his resume includes things as varied as time spent in military service with the Army Security Agency. During his time in the military, Braman took his first philosophy course through the University of Maryland. He remembers, "I really didn't like it all that much, and I swore I would never take another philosophy class at long as I lived." Now, it is this same professor who is the director of his own philosophy program, Perspectives, a series of courses that are offered for six credits each. Braman has also taught Capstone and Philosophy of the Person. All of the courses that professor Brian Braman teaches are inspirational, thought provoking, and, shall we say, philosophical. As the director of the Perspectives Program at Boston College, Braman has created this course to reflect some of his personal interests and passions.

Brian Card is a Software Engineer at Viasat who focuses on UI design and network management. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Union College and is working on a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Brian Conley is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the program director of Applied Politics and Global Public Policy at Suffolk University. [ Suffolk.edu](https://www.suffolk.edu/college/12172.php "Suffolk.edu")

Brian Friedberg is the Senior Researcher of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Blending academic research and Open Source Intelligence techniques, Brian is an investigative ethnographer, focusing on the impacts alternative media, anonymous communities, and unpopular cultures have on political communication and organization. Brian holds an MA in Cultural Production from Brandeis University.

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Brian Halweil is a senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute covering issues of food and agriculture. He joined Worldwatch in 1997 as the John Gardner Public Service Fellow from Stanford University, where he had established a student-run organic farm on campus. The farm was community-supported and sold produce to the university and local restaurants. In addition, Brian has set up community-supported farms and organic farms/orchards throughout California and assisted farmers who were making the shift from chemical to organic agriculture. As a food and agriculture expert, Brian has testified before the U.S. Senate on biotechnology, poverty, and hunger. In addition, he has spoken to non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and industry groups on a variety of issues, ranging from organic farming to vegetarianism to genetically engineered crops. Brian's work has been featured in national newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, and New York Times, and on radio networks, such as National Public Radio and Voice of America. Brian has traveled extensively in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa, learning indigenous farming techniques and promoting sustainable food production. He holds Bachelor's of Science degrees in Earth Systems and Biology from Stanford University. He has also completed research, fieldwork, and coursework at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California at Davis. His work at Davis included participation in the "100 Year Sustainability Project" as well as the Student Experimental Farm for Alternative Agriculture. Brian writes from Sag Harbor, New York, where he and his wife tend a home garden and orchard.

Helmuth's research explores the effects of climate and climate change on the physiology and ecology of marine organisms. Specifically, he uses thermal engineering techniques, including a combination of field work, remote sensing and mathematical modeling, to explore the ways in which the environment determines the body temperatures of coastal marine animals such as mussels and seastars. Combined with energetics models, this approach provides a quantitative method of mapping patterns of growth, reproduction, and survival in economically and ecologically important coastal species.

A concert pianist, architect and inventor since age eight, Brian Hubert has a track record of accomplishments in diverse fields. Hubert was awarded the Lemelson MIT Student Prize in 2001. While working on his doctoral thesis, Hubert created a universal nano-assembly machine, capable of picking up and assembling thousands of atoms of almost any material at one time. His device could potentially be used for moving and patterning segments of DNA strands, ultimately enabling doctors to discover genetic related diseases in a matter of minutes, long before the patient showed any symptoms. Hubert received his BS, MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT. After graduating from MIT, Hubert co-founded Kovio Inc. in Sunnyvale, California, a nano-technology company developing technologies for manufacturing microelectronics, where he serves as CTO.