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Brenda Wilson is an award-winning correspondent and editor for NPR on national and international public health. She has developed a consistent body of work, examining the link between human behavior, social conditions, health and disease. For more than a decade, Wilson has reported on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, other infectious diseases and public health issues. She has traveled throughout Africa and India interviewing people from all walks of life, including heads of state, international health experts, development specialists and others. Wilson was awarded a Kaiser Foundation Media Fellowship in 1999 to study the impact of AIDS on migrant workers in South Africa. She also shared a DuPont/Columbia Award for *Breaking the Silence*, an NPR series on AIDS in the black community, which also won an award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Wilson has worked at NPR as a producer and a reporter in Washington, covering social policy and the White House. She began her NPR career in 1979 as Associate Producer for *Morning Edition*. She has a BA degree in English literature from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Born and raised in Lynn, Brendan Crighton comes from a long line of Lynn residents. He attended public schools in Lynn K-12. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Government at Colby College. He is also a graduate of Suffolk University, where he received his Masters of Public Administration. After college he went to work as an aide to State Senator Thomas McGee, eventually serving as Chief of Staff. It was during this time that Brendan truly honed his desire to serve by winning a seat as Ward 5 City Councilor in Lynn. After two terms as a Ward Councilor, Brendan was elected and served a full term as a Councilor at Large. In 2014, Brendan was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served for three years. In 2018, Brendan was elected to the State Senate, where he currently serves as the Chairperson of the Joint Committee on Housing, Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, and a member of the Senate Committee on Personnel and Administration the Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities, the Joint Committee on Election Laws, the Joint Committee on Public Health and the Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use, and Recovery.

Brendan DuBois is the author of more than 15 novels and short story collections, most notably the alternate-history thriller *Resurrection Day*, winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Alternative History Novel of 1999. He is a recipient of the Al Blanchard Crime Fiction Award and two-time winner of the Shamus Award, as well as a frequent nominee for the Anthony Awards and the Edgar Allan Poe Awards. DuBois’s stories have been published in *The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine*, *The Boston Herald Sunday Magazine* and *Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine*. His oft-anthologized story “The Dark Snow,” was published in *Playboy* and featured in *The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century*. He is currently at work on his novel, *Amerikan Eagle*.

Brendan is Open Source's blogger in chief. He has written for *The New York Times*, *The New York Times Magazine* and the *Wall Street Journal Europe*. He is the radio editor of John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures, and his audio work has been featured by Transom, Wonkette!, Andrew Sullivan's "Daily Dish", the Irish broadcaster RTE, Radio Netherlands and US public radio stations. Before Open Source he was the site editor of the Public Radio Exchange; he has been quoted on blogs and podcasting by *The Economist*, the *BBC*, the *AP*, *The New York Times* and the *Los Angeles Times*.

Brendan Lynch is a digital editor and designer for WGBHnews.org.

Brendan Mahan, M.Ed., MS., hosts the ADHD Essentials Podcast, and is the author of the upcoming “Overcoming the Wall of Awful™” from Balance/Hachette. A sought-after speaker, and neurodivergent person himself, Brendan helps organizations and individuals manage neurodiverse challenges through education, collaborative problem-solving, compassion, and accountability.

Brendan Mathews's short fiction has appeared in the *Virginia Quarterly Review*, *Epoch*, *Glimmer Train Stories*, S*outhwest Review*, *TriQuarterly*, and *The Southern Review*. He was awarded multiple prizes such as the Emily Clark Balch Prize by *VQR* and the McGinnis-Ritchie Prize by *Southwest Review*. He has worked as a journalist, editor, and digital media producer for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Britannica.com, the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, and others.

Brendan McConville is a professor of history at Boston University, and is head of The David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, as well as a trustee of the David Library of the American Revolution.

Brendan Meade's research is focused on the geodetic imaging of earthquake cycle processes with an emphasis on the detection of interseismic elastic strain accumulation. His special emphasis is on the tectonic and earthquake cycle signals across the Japanese Islands to identify the coupled subduction zone interface that ruptured during the great Tohoku-oki earthquake of 2011. Dr. Meade received his Ph.D. in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He first joined Harvard as a Daly Postdoctoral fellow and continued as an Assistant then Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences.

Brendan O’Leary was born in Cork, Ireland. He was brought up in Nigeria, Sudan, and Northern Ireland. He is a graduate of Keble College, Oxford University, where he was the holder of an Open Scholarship, and received a first class honors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1981). Prof. O'Leary wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the London School of Economics & Political Science, which won the Robert McKenzie Memorial Prize and was subsequently published by Oxford: Basil Blackwell (1989). Before coming to Penn, Prof. O’Leary was on the faculty of the London School of Economics and Political Science (1983 – 2003). He is the author, co‐author or co‐editor of 19 books and collections, and has authored or coauthored over 125 refereed articles and book chapters. Prof. O'Leary's book, How to Get Out of Iraq With Integrity (2009) is available from University of Pennsylvania Press. Prof. O’Leary was a political advisor to the British Labour Shadow Cabinet on Northern Ireland (1987 – 1997). He advised Irish, British, and American government ministers and officials and the Irish‐American Morrison delegation during the Northern Ireland peace process, and appeared as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress. He has also worked as a constitutional advisor for the E.U. and the U.N. Prof. O’Leary has been a regular contributor to public media and debate in the U.S., Great Britain and Ireland. He has written numerous op‐eds for The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Guardian, The Belfast Telegraph, The Independent (London), The Independent (Dublin), Canada’s Globe and Mail, The Irish Times and many others.

Brent D. Glass is Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. A national leader in the preservation, interpretation, and promotion of history, he is a public historian who has pioneered influential oral history and material culture studies, an author, a television presence, and an international speaker on public memory and museum management.

Professor Edwards is the author of *The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism* (Harvard University Press, 2003), which won the Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies. With Robert G. O'Meally and Farah Jasmine Griffin, he co-edited the collection *Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies* (Columbia University Press, 2004). He has published essays and articles in a wide variety of journals and magazines on topics including African American literature, Francophone literature, theories of the African diaspora, black radical intellectuals, cultural politics in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, surrealism, 20th-century poetics, and jazz. The co-editor of the journal *Social Text*, Professor Edwards also serves on the editorial boards of Transition and Callaloo. He is a Permanent Fellow at the university's Center for Cultural Analysis and sits on the supervisory board of The English Institute at Harvard University. Between 2005 and 2006, Professor Edwards was awarded a fellowship to pursue research at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library.

In 2005 Brent left the classroom to pursue a doctorate in education policy, leadership, and instructional practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he continued to mentor new teachers and began researching charter schools. In spring 2008 Brent accepted the position of Director of Teaching and Learning at Teacher U in New York City where he is helping to design a new teacher training program in partnership with Achievement First, KIPP, Uncommon Schools and Hunter College, and continues to work on his dissertation.