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Brian MacQuarrie is a reporter for The Boston Globe. He joined the newsroom in 1987 from The Philadelphia Inquirer and has covered a broad range of important stories for the Globe, including the Boston Marathon bombings, Hurricane Katrina, the September 11th attacks, the hunt for al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and as an embedded front-line reporter during the US invasion of Iraq.

Brian McCreath produces and hosts CRB's Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcasts from Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, Executive Produces WCRB In Concert, and produces and hosts The Bach Hour. As Director of Production, he also oversees GBH Music productions from the Fraser Performance Studio and digital content on CRB's website.

Brian McGrory is the former editor of The Boston Globe. During Brian’s decade-long run, the Globe won three Pulitzer Prizes and was a finalist another dozen times in categories ranging from Public Service to Feature Photography. The news organization also amassed more than 240,000 digital-only subscribers, making it an industry leader with a growing newsroom. Prior to this, Brian worked as a nationally award-winning metro columnist, a White House correspondent, national correspondent, and general assignment reporter, all during a 34-year career at the Globe. He has authored five published books and serves on the boards of The Baltimore Banner, the News Leaders Association, and the World Editors Forum. He is also writing a regular column for The Boston Globe.

Brian Newman is the founder of Sub-Genre, a consulting company working with major brands and nonprofits to design and implement strategic marketing campaigns using films and new media. Brian has developed overall film strategy, business development and marketing strategies for major brands including Patagonia, Yeti Coolers, Levi’s and Vulcan Productions among others. Current and former clients include: Patagonia, developing film strategies and marketing and distribution for numerous films, including DamNation; The Fisherman’s Son, and Jumbo Wild; Sundance Institute on the Transparency Project; Vulcan Productions on sponsorships for Racing Extinction and We the Voters; Imprint Projects on festival strategy for two films for Levi’s; Yeti Coolers on media strategy and film distribution and marketing, including 60 shorts and the feature doc Charged; and several filmmakers on fundraising, distribution and marketing. Brian is also the producer of Love & Taxes, and executive producer of Shored Up, The Invisible World and Remittance. Brian has served as CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute, president of Renew Media and executive director of IMAGE Film & Video. Brian serves on the boards of Rooftop Films, Muse Film & Television and IndieCollect and the advisory board of the Camden International Film Festival. He was born in North Carolina and has an MA in Film Studies from Emory University.

Brian O’Donovan is a broadcaster, writer, and presenter, and lives in Cambridge, MA. Born and raised in Clonakilty West Cork in a family of 9, O'Donovan received his BA from University College Cork in 1978 before heading to England. He then journeyed to Boston and grad school at Emerson College. In Boston, at a music jam-session, he was introduced to Lindsay Henes. They married in August of 1981. They live in Cambridge, MA and have four grown children: Aoife, Ciaran, Aidan, and Nuala and two grandchilden, Ivy Jo Jacobsen of Brooklyn, NY, and Nomi O'Donovan of Denver, CO. He can be reached at celtic@wgbh.org.

Brian is the author of "Lyme Disease in Canada", a science-based look at the causes, treatments, and controversy of this important and often overlooked disease. He is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in publications including Nature, New Scientist, The Lancet, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Brian Payne is the Founder/Leader of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene & Marilyn Glick. The Cultural Trail is a $63 million dollar, eight-mile, beautifully designed and landscaped bicycle and pedestrian pathway that connects every significant arts, cultural, heritage, sports, and entertainment venue in Indianapolis' dynamic downtown. It was created by taking a lane of traffic away from cars and dedicating it to people on foot, bikes, Segways, and wheelchairs. The national consulting firm, Project for Public Spaces chose the Indianapolis Cultural Trail as the best North American example of a big, bold, transformative project that is changing the way people think of cities and city life. The US Department of Transportation awarded the Cultural Trail a $20.5 million stimulus grant, one of only 51 grants awarded out of 1,400 proposals submitted in a merit-based competitive process. He has spoken at national conferences of the American Planning Association, CEOs for Cities, Larger Community Foundations Annual Conference, Council on Foundations,and United Way.

Brian Rashad Fuller is educational leader, strategist and author with a passion for addressing the needs of historically underserved students.

**Brian Skerry** is the Aquarium's Explorer in Residence and an award-winning \_National Geographic Magazine\_ photographer who specializes in marine wildlife subjects and stories about the underwater world. For 30 years he has explored the world’s oceans in an effort to produce images of elusive animals and rarely seen behavior. Brian typically spends up to 8 months each year in the field working in locations of extreme contrasts from polar climes to tropical reefs. **Recent Expeditions** See Brian's work and read his updates from the field on the Aquarium's Global Explorers Blog. Don't miss his posts from Indonesia, Antarctica the Sea of Cortez and the Phoenix Islands.

Brian Sloan is an independent filmmaker. His first feature, the screwball comedy *I Think I Do*, was praised by *the New York Times* as "hysterically funny and very smart." Brian broke onto the indie scene with the short film *Pool Days*, his NYU thesis project. Dealing with the sexual misadventures of a teenage lifeguard, the film screened at more than fifty film festivals, including Sundance and New Directors. Brian helped assemble a package of three short films (including *Pool Days*) around the theme of teen-agers coming out, *Boys Life*, which eventually spawned three sequels. *A Really Nice Prom Mess* is his first novel. Brian lives in New York City.