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Dr. Carol R. Johnson has been Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools since August 2007, appointed by a unanimous vote of the Boston School Committee after a national search. As Superintendent of the 56,000-student district in the capital city of Massachusetts, she also serves a cabinet member for Mayor Thomas M. Menino. Dr. Johnson has a wealth of experience in public education as a teacher, principal, and administrator. She previously served as Superintendent of the Memphis City Schools in Memphis, Tennessee, the largest district in the state, with 119,000 students. During her tenure, she successfully removed more than 100 Memphis City Schools from the states No Child Left Behind high priority list, reducing the number of schools on the list by more than half. Dr. Johnson had been Superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools, where she was named Minnesota Superintendent of the Year. She also had led the St. Louis Park, Minnesota school district located in suburban Minneapolis. In 2007, the Tennessee Parent Teacher Association named Dr. Johnson the Tennessee Superintendent of the Year. Prior to her appointment in Memphis in 2003, She earned a bachelors degree in Elementary Education from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Minnesota.

Carol Rose is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. A lawyer and journalist, Carol has spent her career working for and writing about human rights and civil liberties, both in the United States and abroad including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan, Sri Lanka, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam. Prior to assuming her position at the helm of the Massachusetts ACLU in January 2003, she was an attorney at the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow, where she specialized in First Amendment and media law, intellectual property, civil rights, and international human rights law. While in private practice, Carol had the honor of serving as co-chair of Women in Communications Law of the ABA Forum on Communications Law, as a Vice Chair of the Human Rights committee of the ABA Individual Rights and Responsibilities section, and on the editorial board of the ABAs *Human Rights* magazine.

Carol R. Saivetz is a Senior Advisor in the MIT Security Studies Program. She is also a Research Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She holds an M.I.A., M.Phil., and a PhD from Columbia University in Political Science and a certificate from what is now the Harriman Institute at Columbia. Between 1995-2005, she was the Executive Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and between 1992-2006 she was a Lecturer in Government at Harvard. She is currently teaching Russian Foreign Policy in the Political Science Department at MIT. Professor Saivetz has consulted for the U.S. Government on topics ranging from energy politics in the Caspian and Black Sea regions, questions of stability in Central Asia, to Russian policy toward Iran. She is the author and contributing co-editor of 5 books and numerous articles on Soviet and now Russian foreign policy issues, including an assessment of the “reset,” Russian policies toward the other Soviet successor states, and current U.S.-Russian relations. Her current research project focuses on security in the Black Sea region and the impact of the way in Ukraine and Russia's policies towards the other post-Soviet states. She has also published opinion pieces on the Ukraine crisis, Russian intervention in Syria, and Russian approaches to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh for the Lawfare Blog (Brookings) and commented on Ukraine, Syria, and the most recent US-Russian summit for local radio and TV. She is the co-chair of the MIT seminar series “Focus on Russia,” sponsored by the MIT Security Studies Program, the Center for International Studies, and MIT-Russia.

Carol Thompson was appointed the High's first Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art in September 2001. Since her arrival at the High, she has curated Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art (2007), African from the Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2004), and For this World and Beyond: African Art from the Fred and Rita Richman Collection (2002). Thompson has taught at New York University, Vassar College, City College in Harlem, Fashion Institute of Technology and other institutions. Thompson's in-progress dissertation at New York University studies African art as p across diverse contexts both within Africa and beyond. She received her M.A. in art history with a specialization in African Art from the University of Iowa (1988) and her B.A. in art history from Hamline University in Minnesota (1980). She is the author of *African Art Portfolio: Masterpieces from the 11th to the 20th Century*(1993) and *For this World and Beyond: African Art from the Fred and Rita Richman Collection* (2002). Thompson is a Research Fellow at the Center for Public Scholarship, Emory College

Carol Wood is Business Innovation Director for the Colorado News Collaborative, which supports 180 media organizations in Colorado. Founder of Emerge Media Group, she provides fractional COO services, as well as monetization and sustainability consulting, to news organizations across the country. Carol’s passion to protect democracy and press freedom drives her work helping all types of media companies develop sustainable business practices, strategy, growth and sound operations.

Dr. Baldwin was born in South Carolina and developed an early love for the ocean while living near the seashore and exploring along the beaches. She studied at James Madison University (B.S. biology), the College of Charleston (M.S. Marine Biology), and the College of William and Mary (Ph.D. Marine Science). She has published over three dozen scientific papers, including descriptions of new fish species from Belize, Tobago, Cook Islands, and Australia. She is on the editorial board for *Copeia* - the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Steering Committee for the Caribbean Coral Reefs Ecosystems Program of the National Museum of Natural History. She has recently developed presentations entitled "Fishes!, Bizarre Beginnings Beneath the Sea: A Little Fish Story", and "Galapagos: Way Beyond Darwin". Dr. Baldwin has been featured in *Smithsonian*, *Rodale Scuba Diving*, *More Magazine*, *The Washington Post*, *The Los Angeles Times*, *The International Herald Tribune*, *The Miami Herald*, and on the ABC television special *Planet Earth 2000*.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Carole Berotte Joseph moved to the United Sates as a child in 1957. She speaks four languages: Haitian, French, Spanish and English. Dr. Joseph has been active in the State University of New York Teacher Education Advisory Council, a group developed by SUNY Chancellor Robert King, in which she worked to create new teacher education templates for the SUNY system. She has also been active on the SUNY Professional Development Task Force, where she initiated discussions on the creation of a Distinguished Professorship Award for faculty members at SUNY's community colleges. Locally, Dr. Joseph has served on the boards of the Dutchess County Chapter of the American Red Cross, the United Way of Dutchess County, the Family Partnership Center, and the Hyde Park Recreation Commission.

Carole Boston Weatherford wrote her first poems in elementary school, and in 1995 she made her literary debut with \_Juneteenth Jamboree\_. She has since written over three dozen more books, including \_Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom\_ (2006), \_Birmingham, 1963\_ (2007), and \_Becoming Billie Holiday\_ (2008). In 2015, Weatherford wrote \_Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer\_, illustrated by Ekua Holmes. Her books have won numerous awards, and she received the Ragan-Rubin Award from the North Carolina English Teachers Association in 2007 and the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2010.

Carole Horne headed the Harvard Book Store buying department from 1978 until July 2007, when she became the General Manager. A booklover since her childhood in Texas, after moving to Boston she went on to get her M.A. in English Literature. She has been active in the bookselling community, having served with the New England Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Association, and the Independent Booksellers Consortium. A frequent speaker at regional and national conventions, she has also been on the faculty of ABA Booksellers School since 1988, teaching in the U.S. and in Central Europe. [Source: http://www.harvard.com/events/press\_release.php?id=2426]

After 24 years, three-time Emmy-award winning anchor and senior correspondent, Carole Simpson, retired from ABC News in 2006 to become Leader-in-Residence at Emerson College's School of Communication in Boston. She is a member of the full-time faculty and teaches courses in public affairs reporting, political communication, broadcast journalism, and serves as writing coach for Journalism students. Currently Simpson serves on the board and was a founding member of the International Women's Media Foundation, which provides journalism programs for foreign women journalists, particularly from developing countries. She has also served on the board of the Freedom Forum's Newseum, was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Commission on Working Women, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF), a member of the Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press, and a member of the University of Michigan Alumni Board.

professor, economics, Harvard

Carolina De Robertis was raised in England, Switzerland, and California by Uruguayan parents. Her fiction, nonfiction, and literary translations have appeared in *ColorLines*, *The Virginia Quarterly Review*, and *The Indiana Review* among others. She is the recipient of a 2008 Hedgebrook Residency for Woman Authoring Change and is the translator of the Chilean novella *Bonsái* by Alejandro Zambra. She lives in Oakland, California, where she is currently at work on her second novel. Her fiction debut, *The Invisible Mountain*, has been called "Marvelous...bold...filled with songs both ecstatic and tragic” (Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban) and “Incantatory… This visionary book beautifully, bravely opens all the old secrets” (Lisa Shea, *Elle*). At once expansive and lush with detail, this debut novel is an intimate exploration of the search for love and authenticity, power and redemption, in the lives of three women, and a penetrating portrait of a small, tenacious nation, Uruguay, shaken in the gales of the twentieth century. On the first day of the century, a small town gathers to witness a miracle and unravel its portents: the mysterious reappearance of a lost infant, Pajarita. Later, as a young woman in the capital city—Montevideo, brimming with growth and promise—Pajarita begins a lineage of independent women. Her daughter Eva, intent on becoming a poet, overcomes an early, shattering betrayal to embark on a most unconventional path toward personal and artistic fulfillment. And Eva’s daughter Salomé, awakening to both her sensuality and political convictions amidst the violent turmoil of the late 1960s, finds herself dangerously attracted to a cadre of urban guerilla rebels. From Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a Montevideo butchershop to US embassy halls, The Invisible Mountain celebrates a nation’s spirit, the will to survive in the most desperate of circumstances, and the fierce and complex connections between mother and daughter.

A contributing writer for *The New Yorker*, *Granta*, and *National Geographic*, Caroline Alexander is the author of three books, *The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition*, *The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty*, and, most recently, *The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War*, which Ken Burns praised as "a spectacular and constantly surprising new book... a triumph." Delivering a goundbreaking reading of the *Iliad* that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war, Alexander uncovers why "the epic of all epics" has had such a profound impact on our culture. Called "spirited and provocative... a nobly bold, even rousing adventure," Steve Coates of the New York Times says " it would be hard to find a faster, livelier, more compact introduction."

Professor Corbin holds a B.A. from Harvard University (1991) and a J.D. from Columbia Law School (2001). She was a James Kent Scholar while at Columbia Law School, where she also won the Pauline Berman Heller Prize and the James A. Elkins Prize for Constitutional Law. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. M. Blane Michael of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She then litigated as a pro bono fellow at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and as an attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Columbia Law School immediately prior to joining the University of Miami faculty. Professor Corbin’s primary area of research is the First Amendment, and her articles have appeared in the *New York University Law Review*, *UCLA Law Review*, and *Boston University Law Review*.