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**Carolyn Forché** is an American poet, teacher and activist born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950 . An articulate defender of her own aims as well as the larger goals of poetry, Forché is perhaps best-known for coining the term “poetry of witness.”

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First elected to Congress in 1992, Carolyn B. Maloney is recognized as a national leader with extensive accomplishments on financial services, national security, the economy, and women’s issues. Her career has been a series of firsts. Maloney is the first woman to represent New York’s 14th Congressional District; the first woman to represent New York City’s 7th Councilmanic district (where she was the first woman to give birth while in office); and is currently the first woman to Chair the Joint Economic Committee, a House and Senate panel that examines and addresses the nation’s most pressing economic issues.

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Carrie English has been assisting in every aspect of production for Basic Black since 2006, including researching show topics, managing the show's social media presence, hiring and supervising the interns and making sure things run smoothly behind the scenes at tapings.

Carrie Healy hosts the local broadcast of Morning Edition at NEPM. She also hosts the station’s weekly government and politics segment Beacon Hill In 5 for broadcast radio and podcast syndication.

Carrie Lambert-Beatty is an art historian at Harvard University whose research focuses on art since 1960. She received her PhD from Stanford in 2002. Her book *Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s* was published by MIT Press in 2008 and was the winner of the de la Torre Bueno book prize for advancing the field of dance history scholarship. Two recent articles on socially-engaged contemporary art, in the journals *Signs* (Winter 2008) and October (Summer 2009), are part of the book Lambert-Beatty is currently writing called *Just Art: Imagining Art's Efficacy*.

Carrie N. Baker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, teaching sociology, women’s studies, and legal studies courses at Berry College located in Rome, Georgia. Dr. Baker was Editor in Chief of the Emory Law Journal while in law school and later served as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Marvin Shoob in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Baker’s primary areas of research are women’s legal history, gender and public policy, and women’s social movements. Dr. Baker’s book, *The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment*, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 and won the National Women’s Studies Association 2008 Sara A. Whaley book prize. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. and Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from Emory University.

**Carrie Oeding’s** first book of poems, \_Our List of Solutions\_, is from 42 Miles Press. Her work has appeared in The Awl, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Columbia Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is the Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women's Studies, Emerita, University of Michigan. Her two best known books are: Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America and This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity. This Violent Empire traces US racism, violence and paranoia to the formation of the new American nation and the adoption of the Federal Constitution. While at the University of Michigan she founded and directed the University's Atlantic Studies Initiative, 1999-2008. The Atlantic Studies Initiative has three principal starting points: (1) that modernity, as we understand it, took form through Atlantic connections: the emergence of an imperial Europe; global capitalism, traced back to the beginnings of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation slave economies in "the New World;" the modern, mobile and fragmented subject; the novel, etc. etc. (2) that events in one part of the Atlantic are intricately connected to events in other parts of the Atlantic and (3) the North Atlantic cannot be understood in isolation from the South Atlantic of Africa, South America and the Caribbean. Her present book project, Atlantic Citizenship, traces the origins of modern citizenship to the Revolutionary Atlantic of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and sees it as the product of complex interactions among the four violent Atlantic events: The US, French, Haitian Revolutions and efforts in the 1790s to establish an Irish Republic. It asks how did these new republics constitute the modern citizen. What rights could the citizen claim and most critically, who could claim citizenship? Who had "the right to have rights?" It focuses on the complex triangulation of race, slavery and gender, using them to examine the contradictions and ambivalence lying at the heart of both citizenship and liberal thought more generally. The coexistence of slavery with Enlightenment liberal celebrations of the "transcendent and equal dignity of all persons" is only the most obvious example of such contradictions. A second lies even closer to the conundrum citizenship poses. Enlightenment thinkers celebrated the universal principles of man's equality and inalienable rights. But do these rights depend on membership in a republican body politic or, transcending the geopolitical state, do they reside in a person's inherent humanity? But what if states refuse to recognize a person's inalienable rights? Does "the people's" right to control who belongs to their body politic trump the claims to inalienable rights of those excluded? Popular sovereignty/ universal rights, twin concepts of the Enlightenment, counter one another. Atlantic Citizenship takes this conundrum back to its origins and asks what effect the Haitian Revolution had upon the development of citizenship in the "white Atlantic" -- not only the violence of the slave revolt itself but the very fact of an independent, self-governing black republic. Robin Blackburn claims that the Haitian Revolution instilled "a permanent panic" in the White Atlantic. Does that panic continue to inform exclusionary visions of citizenship in the US, Europe and Great Britain?