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Carl Kaysen's scholarly work has ranged widely in the areas where economics, sociology, politics and law overlap. His current research centers on arms control and international politics. He co-chairs the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Study Committee on International Security Studies. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1976, he was on the faculty of the economics department at Harvard University. He served as deputy special assistant for national security affairs to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963 and was the director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1966 to 1976. He has been a junior fellow at Harvard University and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was vice chairman and director of research for the Sloan Commission on Higher Education from 1978 to 1980.

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Carl Safina has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won the Lannan Literary Award and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He has a PhD in ecology from Rutgers University. Carl is the inaugural endowed professor for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University, where he co-chairs the steering committee of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. His writing appears in The New York Times, National Geographic, Audubon, and other periodicals, and on the Web at National Geographic News Watch, Huffington Post, and CNN.com. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel is Carl’s seventh book.

Carl Spector oversees programs related to climate change, environmental protec-on, historic preserva-on, and other aspects of sustainability. Before joining Boston City Hall in 2005, Mr. Spector worked on a wide variety of environmental and energy issues for the federal government and in private industry. He holds degrees in physics from Princeton University and environmental science from the University of Massachuse;s, Boston. Photo Credit: New England Aquarium

Carla A. Hills is chairman and CEO of Hills & Company, International Consultants, which advises companies on global trade and investment issues, particularly in the emerging markets. Ambassador Hills served as US Trade Representative (1989-93), in which capacity she was President Bush's principal advisor on international trade policy. She served as secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Ford Administration. From 1974-75, she was Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, US Department of Justice. Ambassador Hills serves on a number of corporate boards. She is vice chair of the National Committee on US-China Relations, the US-China Business Council, and the Inter-American Dialogue; trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute of International Economics; member of the Board of the Asia Society; and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

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Carla Della Gatta is a theatre historian and performance theorist whose research focuses on ethnicity and aurality, specifically Shakespearean adaptation and performance, bilingual theatre, and theatre archives. Her primary fields are Shakespeare, Latinx theatre, LGBTQ theatre, and critical theory. She is Head of the MA/PhD program and Associate Professor of Theatre Scholarship and Performance Studies at University of Maryland.​

An architect and engineer by training, **Carlo Ratti** practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. Ratti graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has co-authored over 200 publications and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ratti's Digital Water Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo was hailed by \_Time\_ as one of the Best Inventions of the Year. He has been included in \_Esquire's\_ Best and Brightest list, in \_Blueprint's\_ 25 People who will Change the World of Design and in \_Forbes'\_ People you need to know in 2011. Ratti was a presenter at TED 2011 and is serving as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Urban Management.

Carlo Rotella is a writer, journalist, and scholar. His latest book is What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics. A professor of English, American Studies, and journalism at Boston College, Rotella writes regularly for the NYT Magazine and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Best American Essays.

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.