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Brittany Huckabee is the founder and principal of Version One Productions, Inc., and served as a 2006-2007 Filmmaker-in-Residence at WGBH, Boston's award-winning PBS station. Her directing experience includes four documentaries and two weekly series that were broadcast nationally on PBS. Most recently, she produced and directed the three-hour documentary series Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, which debuted on PBS in June 2005. The Mosque in Morgantown is Huckabee's first independent film project. She is currently developing a new project about human trafficking in Nepal.

Brock Clarke is the author of six novels, his latest work being \_The Happiest People in the World\_ (2014). He currently lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College and in University of Tampa's low residency MFA program.

Brock Dolman is a co-founder of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (www.oaec.org), where he co-directs the Permaculture Program, Wildlands Program and the WATER Institute in Sonoma County, California. He is a wildlife biologist, permaculture designer and watershed ecologist and has been active in promoting the idea of Bringing Back the Beaver in California since the late 1990’s.

Brooke is a local freelancer and dumpling aficionado based in Allston. As an undergrad at Boston University, she’s written extensively for the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and various local food blogs. She loves chatting with chefs, lying on hardwood floors after big meals, and walking around unknown neighborhoods with food in her hands. She also has a complicated relationship with burritos, and an unhealthy obsession with Jamaica Plain. One time, a waiter in Atlanta told her she had an exquisite palate -- she’s referenced it in job interviews ever since.

A professor emerita at New York University, where she was the founding director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and taught from 1998 to 2021. She was UN correspondent for Newsday, deputy metropolitan editor at New York Newsday, and for more than a decade before that, a correspondent, editor, and bureau and division chief for United Press International at home and abroad.

Brooks Rainwater is the American Institute of Architecture's director of Local Relations. As director, Brooks is responsible for advancing the Institute's and the architecture profession's goals at the local level by promoting the AIA's public policies and empowering local components to effectively manage their legislative, regulatory, and legal efforts. Previously Brooks worked as a research associate for the Artemis Group LLC. Prior to that, he interned with the North Carolina Smart Growth Alliance in the area of rural development policy. Brooks earned the Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds a Master's of Public Administration degree from the George Washington University.

Harvard graduate and author of five books (including two national bestsellers), Broughton Coburn is a premier authority on the culture and environment of the Himalaya, where he has lived and worked for two of the past three years

After 27 years working at the Waikiki Aquarium, Carlson joined the Georgia Aquarium and was part of the original team that designed the Aquarium. Carlson is an avid SCUBA diver, underwater photographer and videographer. He has published several scientific articles on numerous topics including descriptions of new species of reef fishes, telemetry work on chambered nautilus and culture methods for corals in aquariums. Carlson is also co-author of “Bringing the Ocean to Atlanta: The Creation of the Georgia Aquarium,” which contains hundreds of beautiful photographs and details the incredible journey from Bernie Marcus’ vision to the reality of the world’s largest aquarium.

Bruce Cunningham has been a serious student of shamanic practice for over 15 years. A shaman is one who has been called by spirit, engaged the training and developed the skill to step between the worlds of the known and the unknown for the benefit of themselves, their community and their fellow man. He is an author and has a private energetic healing practice in Georgia.

Bruce Feiler is the *New York Times * best-selling author of seven books, an award-winning journalist, and the writer-presenter of the PBS miniseries *Walking the Bible*. He has traveled to more than 60 countries on five continents, immersing himself in different cultures. Born in Savannah, GA, he lives in New York with wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their twin daughters.

Bruce Bodaken is chairman, president and CEO of Blue Shield of California, a 3.3 million member not-for-profit health plan that serves the commercial, individual and government markets in California. A native of Iowa, Mr. Bodaken doesn't fit the typical profile of a health plan CEO. He earned a masters degree and taught philosophy at the college level before embarking on a career in health care. During Mr. Bodaken's eight-year tenure as CEO, Blue Shield has been among the fastest growing health plans in California. Membership and revenues have more than doubled and the company won two large government contracts covering California state employees and U.S. military families enrolled in the TRICARE program. Passionate about his company's not-for-profit mission, in 2002 Mr. Bodaken became the first health plan CEO to offer a specific proposal for universal healthcare coverage. His plan for universal coverage based on shared responsibility is similar to President-elect Obama's current proposal. He also transformed the Blue Shield of California Foundation into one of the state's largest healthcare grantmakers, with nearly $100 million in donations in the past three years. In addition to his work at Blue Shield, Mr. Bodaken serves on numerous professional and civic boards. He is a director of the California Business Roundtable, WageWorks, the University of California, Berkeley's Health Services Management Program, and Youth Tennis Advantage (serving inner-city youth). He is co-author of The Managerial Moment of Truth, published by Simon & Schuster (Free Press) in 2006.

Bruce Gil is a former digital reporter for FRONTLINE. He originally joined FRONTLINE in 2022 as a Tow Journalism Fellow.