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Professor Bryan Rommel-Ruiz has been teaching at The Colorado College since 1996 when he first arrived as a Minority-Scholar-In-Residence and Visiting Instructor in American History. He teaches a wide variety of courses in American History, African American History, US Southern History; World History, and Film and History. He has published articles and essays in these fields and is currently completing a book manuscript on Black Atlantic culture and politics in Rhode Island and Nova Scotia for The University of Pennsylvania Press. Professor Rommel-Ruiz is also writing a book manuscript on Charleston, South Carolina, and the Atlantic world that will be published by The University of Georgia Press. Additionally, he has a book-length manuscript under review about American Film and History.

Professor Snyder is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Bentley University. His teaching interests cover a wide scope of economics, economic history and political economy. His current writing and research activities focus on the editing and production of the classroom readers Real World Micro (31st edition), Real World Macro (41st edition) and Economic of the Environment (4th edition) for Dollars & Sense magazine.

Bryan Trabold, PhD, is Associate Professor and Chair of the Suffolk University English Department. He has authored \_Rhetorics of Resistance: Opposition Journalism in Apartheid South Africa\_ and helped edit \_Literacy, Economy, and Power: Writing and Research Ten Years after Literacy in American Lives\_. Image: [The Suffolk Journal](https://thesuffolkjournal.com/25762/world-news-at-suffolk/suffolk-professor-feature-trabold-reflects-on-experience-in-post-apartheid-africa/ "The Suffolk Journal")

Bryan Windmiller, holds a PhD in biology and a Master's degree in Environmental Policy, both from Tufts University. He has worked as a consulting wildlife ecologist since 1987. Bryan's research interests include: assessing the impacts of residential construction on vernal pool amphibian populations, the conservation of Blanding's turtles in Concord, Massachusetts, and the ecology of amphibian populations exposed to the emerging fungal disease, chytridiomycosis.

Bryna Lipper has held leadership roles in government, nonprofit, and private sector organizations dedicated to advancing the quality of urban life. As cofounder and senior vice president for 100 Resilient Cities, she led the formation of its urban resilience practice and global network to enable cities to adapt to 21st century challenges.

Bud Ris is a Senior Adviser on Climate Change with Boston's Barr Foundation. He joined the Barr Foundation in January 2015 to focus on a climate resilience project for Boston's Green Ribbon Commission and work with Barr's Climate team on strategic planning. Previously, he was President and CEO of the New England Aquarium from 2005 to 2014. Ris has also served on various advisory boards for both the Mayor and the Governor of Boston on climate-related issues, and he led the Union of Concerned Scientists as CEO for 22 years. He additionally serves on the City of Boston's Green Ribbon Commission, Boston's Climate Action Plan Steering Committee, and the Downtown Waterfront Municipal Harbor Plan Advisory Committee.

Bud Welch’s daughter, Julie Marie Welch, was killed in the Oklahoma City Terrorist Bombing in 1995. Bud opposed the execution of the bomber, Tim McVeigh. He is the founding President of Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights.

Bulent Atalay, the author of* Math and the Mona Lisa * and *Leonardo's Universe*, is a scientist and artist with roots in Turkey, England, and the United States.

Bunny is a 69 year old concert violinist who balanced the demands of performance schedules with being a spouse and parent. There was little time during those busy years of juggling career and family, she says, to figure out why she was dressing in women’s clothing. It wasn’t until a few years ago that she came out as transgender: “I denied myself that involvement with the queer community for so many years,” said Bunny, “that embracing it fully is such a relief for me.”

Burt Glass, the executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in California from 1999 to 2007, joins NECIR with more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit management, development, communications, and strategy. For the past eight years, Glass has been the managing director of Hairpin Communications in Boston, helping nonprofits and foundations better communicate their brand and strategic messages. Before co-founding Hairpin, he was a senior vice president at Fenton Communications in California. Over the course of his career, Glass has successfully shaped and managed operations and communications for a variety of nonprofits, working to achieve organizational security with long- term strategic vision.

Burton L. Visotzky serves as the Nathan and Janet Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he joined the faculty upon his ordination as rabbi in 1977. He has also served as a dean of The Graduate School, as the founding rabbi of the egalitarian worship service of the Seminary Synagogue, and as the director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies at JTS. Dr. Visotzky has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, as well as a visiting faculty member at, among others, Union Theological Seminary, Princeton University, and the Russian State University of the Humanities in Moscow. Rabbi Visotzky served as the Master Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome during the spring of 2007.

In 1966 on the Gemini 12 orbital mission, Buzz performed the world’s first successful spacewalk. He founded Starcraft Boosters, Inc., a rocket design company, and the ShareSpace Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to advancing space education, exploration and affordable space flight experiences for all. Buzz also promotes his Rocket Hero brand launched in 2008 through his newest entity, StarBuzz LLC. Dr. Aldrin is author of his autobiography,* Magnificent Desolation*,*The Return and Encounter with Tiber, Men from Earth, Return to Earth* and children’s books: *Reaching for the Moon* and *Look to the Stars* both New York Times bestsellers.