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Carol Berkin, professor of American history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of *A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, First Generations, and Jonathan Sewall.* She lives in New York City.

Carol Bundy has written for film and art publications in both the UK and the US. She has two sons and lives in Cambridge, MA. She became interested in her great-great-great uncle, Charles Russell Lowell, when his worn saddle bags, rusted sword and spurs turned up after her grandmothers death in 1983.

Born in New York City in 1944, Christ attended public schools in northern New Jersey. In 1966 she graduated with high honors from Douglass College and went on to Yale University, where she received the Ph.D. in English. In 1970 Christ joined the English faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. As chair of her department from 1985 to 1988, she built and maintained one of the top-ranked English departments in the country. She entered the university

Ms. Collier was appointed Executive Director of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) on August 31, 1998. The DRBC is an interstate/federal commission that provides a unified approach to water resource management without regard to political boundaries. Before joining DRBC, Ms. Collier was Executive Director of Pennsylvanias 21st Century Environment Commission. Governor Tom Ridge formed the Environment Commission in 1997 to establish the Commonwealths environmental priorities and to recommend a course of action for the next century. Ms. Collier has a B.A. in Biology from Smith College and a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Professional Planner licensed in the State of New Jersey, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a Certified Senior Ecologist. In 1997 she was presented the Touchstone Award from the Society of Women Environmental Professionals and in 1998 the Woman of Distinction Award from the Philadelphia Business Journal. In 2007 the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) presented her with the Mary H. Marsh Medal for exemplary contributions to the protection and wise use of the nations water resources.

Dr. Carol Crown, professor of art history at the University of Memphis, contributed the principal essay on the Mullis Collection in the book *Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection*. The book won a bronze medal at the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards and received the prize in the fine arts category at the 12th annual IPPY Awards in Los Angeles.

Carol Downs has been a small business owner, community volunteer and resident of Boston for twenty-nine years. Carol is founding Co-Owner and current General Manager of Bella Luna & The Milky Way, an award-winning dining and entertainment landmark in Jamaica Plain opened in 1993. She currently serves as Board Member and Treasurer of the Boston Planning and Development Agency and as a member of Boston’s Community Preservation Committee. She served as a Trustee of the Neighborhood House Charter School in Dorchester from 2002-2017. She served as an elected Board Member of the Jamaica Plain Firehouse Multicultural Arts Center from 1992-1996. Carol has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia (1988) and lives in Roslindale with her husband and two children.

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Carol Gilligan is an internationally acclaimed psychologist and prolific writer. She graduated summa cum laude from Swarthmore College in 1958 with a major in literature. She went on to do advanced work at Radcliffe University receiving a Masters in clinical psychology in 1960. She earned her doctorate in social psychology from Harvard University in 1964. Gilligan began teaching at Harvard in 1967 with renowned psychologist Erik Erikson. In 1970 she became a research assistant for Lawrence Kohlberg. Kohlberg is known for his research on moral development and his stage theory of moral development, justice and rights. Gilligan received tenure as a full professor for the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1986. Gilligan spent 1992-1994 teaching at the University of Cambridge in England. She was invited there as a Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions. Her area of academic expertise is in human development and psychology. She is a considered to be a pioneer of gender studies and particularly in the psychological and moral development of girls. In 1997, Gilligan was appointed to Harvard University's first position in gender studies which is a newly endowed position at the Harvard Graduate School of Education known as the Patricia Albjerg Graham Chair in Gender Studies.

Carol Hampton Rasco is President and CEO of Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., America's oldest and largest nonprofit children's and family literacy organization. Prior to holding this position, Rasco was the executive director for government relations at the College Board. From 1997 through 2000, Rasco served as the Senior Adviser to US Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, and as director of the America Reads Challenge, a four year national campaign to promote the importance of all children reading well and independently by the end of the third grade. Previously, Rasco worked for four years in the White House as domestic policy adviser to the president and directed the Domestic Policy Council.

**Carol Hardy-Fanta** is a nationally recognized scholar on Latina/o politics and has published widely on the intersection of gender, race, and ethnicity in politics and public policy. Her latest book, Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st-Century America (co-authored with Dianne Pinderhughes, Pei-te Lien, and Christine Sierra) was released by Cambridge University Press in October 2016. Her other books include: Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender, Culture, and Political Participation in Boston (Temple University Press, 1993), Latino Politics in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies and Prospects (Routledge Press, 2002), and Intersectionality and Politics: Recent Research on Gender, Race, and Political Representation in the United States (Haworth Press, 2006).

Carol Higgins Clark is the author of nine previous best selling Regan Reilly mysteries, Decked, nominated as Best First Novel for both the Agatha and Anthony Awards, Snagged, Iced and Twanged, published by Warner Books and Fleeced, Jinxed, Popped, Burned and Hitched, published by Scribner.

Carol J. Oja is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music. Professor Oja's research focuses on 20th-century American musical traditions. Her book, *Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920's* (2000), won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other books include *Copland and his World* (co-edited with Judith Tick, 2005); *Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds*; *A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock*; and *American Music Recordings: A Discography of 20th-Century U.S. Composers*. She is at work on a book provisionally titled *Leonard Bernstein and Broadway*, and she is past-president of the Society for American Music. During 2008-09, she is a fellow at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.

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.