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Carlos Aramayo is the Financial Secretary Treasurer of Boston's Local 26, UNITE HERE, a union representing workers in the hospitality industries of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Members work in Boston and Providence hotels, restaurants, and university dining halls in addition to the Boston Convention Centers, Fenway Park and Logan International Airport. They clean hotel rooms, greet guests, and prepare and serve food for hundreds of thousands of travelers to Boston and the northeast. [Follow Carlos on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/Carlos\_Aramayo "")

Carlos Eire was born in Havana, Cuba. He left his homeland in 1962, one of fourteen thousand unaccompanied children airlifted out of Cuba by Operation Pedro Pan. After living in a series of foster homes in Florida and Illinois, he was reunited with his mother in Chicago. His father, who died in 1976, never left Cuba. After earning his Ph.D. at Yale University, Carlos Eire taught at St. John's University in Minnesota for two years and at the University of Virginia for fifteen. He is now the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University.

Carlos Moreno is a Franco-Colombian urban planner and professor at the IAE Paris Sorbonne, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Carlos pioneered the award-winning concept of the “15-Minute City” which has since become a global movement for city transformation.

Carlos Saladrigas, born in Havanna, left Cuba for the Florida coast in 1961. Though he came with little money, he managed to put himself through college, attend Harvard’s Business School, and co-founded Vincam, a staff leasing firm which grew to be the largest Hispanic-owned company in America. He is currently the vice chairman of Premier American Bank and the co-chair of the Cuba Study Group.

Carlton Pearson is the Presiding Bishop of more than 500 churches and ministries through the AZUSA Interdenominational Fellowship of Christian Churches and Ministries and pastored Higher Dimensions Family Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for more than 20 years.

Carly covers housing and infrastructure for Vermont Public and VTDigger and is a corps member with the national journalism nonprofit Report for America.

**Carly Foster** is the principal planner for resilience, cost benefit analysis, and implementation for Arcadis' US water management division. She is also a member of the Arcadis team participating in the Rockefeller Foundation Resilient Cities 100 initiative. Photo: [Carly Foster on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlycermak/ "Carly Foster on LinkedIn")

Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. She is responsible for oversight of the Center’s sponsored research portfolio, event programming, fellowships, student engagement, development, and a range of other projects and collaborations. Carmel was responsible for designing, recruiting for, and launching both the Center’s Health Care General Counsel Roundtable and the Center’s Advisory Board. She is involved heavily with the Center’s Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law, and its Diagnosing in the Home Initiative. Carmel is also a Lecturer at Law on Harvard Law School, where she co-teaches a course on “Health Care Rights in the Twenty-First Century.”

Carmella Boykin is a host and producer on The Washington Post Universe team. She writes, shoots and edits videos for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram that often involve creating clones of herself to explain news topics. Previously, she worked as a local TV reporter in Rochester, NY, where she started her TikTok account. Carmella joined The Post in December 2021 and holds a degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism from Syracuse University.

**Carmen Arce-Bowen** is the COO The Partnership, a Boston based organization focused on attracting, developing, and retaining professionals of color in the region. Prior to joining The Partnership, Arce-Bowen served as Director of Personnel and Administration in the office of Governor Deval Patrick overseeing and managing all matters related to high-level personnel transactions in the executive branch. She currently serves on the board of Buckingham Browne and Nichols School, WBUR, the leadership board of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the newly created Governor’s Council on Latino Empowerment. She also served on the boards of Emerge MA, the MA Commission on the Status of Women, MassVote and the Chelsea Collaborative. In 2022, Tufts University recognized Arce-Bowen with a 2021 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. The Boston Business Journal named Arce-Bowen as one of its 2018 40 Under 40 honorees. Originally from Mexico, Arce-Bowen graduated with a LL.B from Universidad Panamericana Law School in Guadalajara Mexico, a LL.M from Suffolk University Law School and a MALD degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Carmen Fields has been a fixture in Bostons journalism community for over 25 years. Her experience includes both print and broadcast journalism; journalism education and media relations. For many Boston-area residents, Carmens comments on the news of the day, in her *Boston Globe* column and as a television reporter and anchor for Channels 7 and 4 and Channel 2s *Ten OClock News with Christopher Lydon* were part of daily life. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Carmen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Lincoln University in Missouri and a Master of Science degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University. She was a part of the *Boston Globe* team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Bostons school desegregation. After work at the Boston Globe as a reporter, assistant city editor and later as a columnist, Fields became a television journalist. She was also an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University.

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Carol S. Ball graduated from Smith College in 1973 and Northeastern University School of Law in 1976. She then was a Law Clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court for a year and became an Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County in 1977. In that role she prosecuted crimes ranging from drunk driving to drug cases to sex crimes to murder. In 1985 she went into private practice, trying civil cases and representing criminal defendants for eleven years until she was appointed to the Superior Court by Governor William Weld in 1996. As a judge she presided over civil and criminal cases until her retirement from the bench in 2015. Judge Ball taught trial advocacy for more than 30 years at Northeastern, Boston University and Harvard Law Schools. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.