People

Camilo Ortiz, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at Long Island University-Post. He is the developer of Independence Therapy, a revolutionary new approach to treating child anxiety through “mega-doses” of child independence. Ortiz received a B.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the U. Mass. Amherst. He also maintains a private practice.

Candace Bushnell is a writer based in New York City. She is best known for writing a column that became the basis of the hit TV-series, *Sex and the City*. Bushnell was born in the New England town of Glastonbury, Connecticut. However, at the age of 19 she shunned the idea of a more parochial life for the bright lights of New York in order to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional writer. Whilst enrolled at New York University, and juggling waitressing jobs, she wrote a children's book for publishers Simon and Schuster and received her first big paycheck of $1000. Candace is now currently working on three more novels, including a young-adult book about Carrie Bradshaw's teenage years in the city. She continues to capture the spirit of the place she has made her home with the flair and drive of a true New Yorker.

**Candace Famiglietti** uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand global environmental governance, drawing on international law, human security, and gender. She is particularly interested in international wildlife trade and the roles of various actors - the private sector, NGOs, international treaties, indigenous peoples, and end-user communities. She is also interested in how the stories told about wildlife inform consumer behavior, environmental management on the ground, and the resulting biodiversity outcomes. She is currently a PhD student in Global Governance and Human Security and a research associate at the Center for Governance and Sustainability (CGS) at UMass Boston. For more information on the work at CGS, check out www.environmentalgovernance.org.

Candace McDuffie is the Senior Writer at The Root who focuses on the intersection of race, gender and entertainment.

Candelaria Silva is a facilitator, consultant, published writer, reviewer and essayist. From 1998 to 2007 she was the director and creator of programs for ACT Roxbury, the cultural economic development program of Madison Park Development Corporation, sponsor of the Roxbury Film Festival, Open Studios, Roxbury Literary Annual, Roxbury Discussion Series.

Canyon was born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of rural North Carolina and the North Cascades of Washington. He was the campaign manager for Chloe Maxmin’s successful 2018 and 2020 campaigns, flipping seats in the most rural county in the most rural state in the country. He was previously regional field director for Bernie Sanders 2016 in rural S.C., field director for Jane Hipps for NC Senate in rural NC, and vice chair of the NC District 11 Democrats. He earned an honors degree in social studies from Harvard College, where the bulk of his education took place outside of the classroom co- coordinating (with Chloe) Divest Harvard, a 70,000+person movement that succeeded in pressuring Harvard to divest its $53 billion endowment from fossil fuels. He is the co-author of Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It. Canyon and Chloe are co-founders of Dirtroad Organizing.

**Cara Seiderman** is Transportation Program Manager for the City of Cambridge, overseeing the City’s bike share program (Hubway) and managing the Bicycle and Pedestrian Mobility Program. Ms. Seiderman has worked in an advisory capacity for several state and national design and technical guides, and frequently gives presentations and workshops on pedestrian and bicycle facility planning, traffic calming, and livable city design. She holds Masters Degrees in City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelors Degree in environmental policy from Harvard University. Ms. Seiderman was a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Carel van Tuyll is chief curator of the Louvre's department of prints and drawings. He is one of the world's foremost drawings experts and has written on the drawings of Annibale Carracci, Guercino, and Rembrandt van Rijn.

Carey Gillam is a Kansas girl, of the heart and home. But her research has taken her throughout rural America. She has spent time with row crop farmers, ranchers, vegetable growers and orchard operators from the Dakotas to Texas, and from California to the Southeast. She has been welcomed inside the high-tech laboratories, greenhouses and corporate offices of some of the largest U.S. agribusinesses. And she has spent countless hours interviewing key U.S. regulators, lawmakers, and scientists. With years of this behind-the-scenes reporting, Gillam has developed deep insight into the risks and rewards of the modern-day food system, and hopes to share that knowledge with others who care about the food they eat and feed to their families.

Carey Scott Wilkerson is a member of the English department at Columbus State University where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing. His work has appeared in many publications including e-ratio, zafusy, Word/for Word, X-stream, and Amaryllis. He is a recipient of a 2009 residency fellowship from the Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts and has been a visiting writer at Clayton State University. He is co-founder of Dead Academics Press, an independent publisher of avant-garde poetry and fiction. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. His book of poems *Threading Stone* is published by New Plains Press, which will also publish his new collection in Spring 2011.

Carl Ferenbach is the cofounder and Managing Director of Berkshire Partners. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch, where he headed its Mergers and Acquisitions Department. Ferenbach has served as the Chairman of the Board of the Environmental Defense Fund since 2008, and as a board member since 2000. He founded the High Meadows Foundation and the High Meadows Fund in 2004, both of which address environmental sustainability and support organizations and programs committed to a better environment. Ferenbach is a trustee of Princeton University and serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School.

Carl Hiaasen , a graduate of the University of Florida, at age 23 he joined *The Miami Herald* as a general assignment reporter and went on to work for the paper's weekly magazine and later its prize-winning investigations team. Since 1985 Hiaasen has been writing a regular column, which at one time or another has pissed off just about everybody in South Florida, including his own bosses. He has outlasted almost all of them, and his column still appears on most Sundays in *The Herald's* opinion-and-editorial section. For his journalism and commentary, Hiaasen has received numerous state and national honors, including the Damon Runyon Award from the Denver Press Club. His work has also appeared in many well-known magazines, including *Sports Illustrated*, *Playboy*, *Time*, *Life*, *Esquire* and, *Gourmet*.

Since 1991, Carl Honore has written journalism from all over Europe and South America, spending three years as a correspondent in Buenos Aires. His articles have appeared in The Economist, Observer, National Post, Houston Chronicle and Miami Herald. His first book, In Praise of Slow: How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed, examines the modern compulsion to hurry and chronicles a global trend toward putting on the brakes. It has been translated into 30 languages and landed on bestseller lists in many countries.

Kasell has been with NPR since the station first hit the airwaves in 1977, working first on *All Things Considered* before assuming the role of newscaster on *Morning Edition*. Kasell is a 1956 graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.