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Carter Joseph is the founder of the ongoing program Opera 101 and has been teaching the sessions at the Atlanta Opera for nearly 25 years. Over this time, he has created an extensive body of work about the composuers, historical background of operas of every kind, and has consistently expanded the audience for the company. He has a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Georgia.

Carter Wiseman is a former architectural critic for *New York Magazine*. He has written several books on architecture and I.M. Pei's work, specifically, *I.M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture*. He is a Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.

Cary S. Burgess, CPP, Senior Vice President of Operations, has been a leader at Zoo Atlanta for over 20 years. Prior to joining the zoo staff as Operations Manager in May 1988, Cary served as Director of Transportation and Parking Operations and Special Events Logistical and Operations Coordinator for Friends of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. At Zoo Atlanta, Cary oversees all aspects of the logistical planning and management of the Zoo’s Operations and Guest Services functions. In his role as Senior Vice President, Cary has led numerous initiatives improving net revenue, and the quality of guest services and the overall visitor experience. He continues to be instrumental in providing a safe, clean and friendly environment for all zoo visitors and staff. Cary serves as the Chair of the Diversity Committee, and the Immediate past Chair of the Business Operations Committee, both of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. He is also a Certified Protection Professional with the American Society for Industrial Security, ASIS, and is the Immediate past Chair of the Cultural Properties Protection Organization of Georgia. Cary is also an advisor to the American Association of Museum’s (AAM) Diversity Counsel, and a member of the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions, IAAPA A lifelong supporter of wildlife with over 28 years spent in the zoo community, Cary has led zoo-sponsored photographic adventures to Kenya/Tanzania, and Antarctica. Cary is an avid sports fan who knows his way around a tennis court.

Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir cofounded ecoarttech in 2005 to explore convergent media, technology, and environments. Cary and Leila work interdisciplinarily, drawing on ideas and methodologies from digital studies, philosophy, literature, ecological science, critical/cultural studies, and art. For ecoarttech, the term “environment” does not refer only to nature or geographic spaces but rather to interwoven networks of biological, cultural, mental, and digital spaces. The health of each is indistinguishable from the health of others. As Gregory Bateson writes, the planet is part of humans’ “eco-mental system”: “if Lake Erie is driven insane [by pollution], its insanity is incorporated in the larger system of your thought and experience.”

Caryl Phillips is a British writer with a Caribbean background, best known as a novelist. He is now professor at Yale University and a visiting professor at Barnard College of Columbia University. He has tackled themes on the African slave trade from many angles. His work has been recognized by numerous awards including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crossing the River and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book award for A Distant Shore.

Professor Rivers is the author of many books, including *Slick Spins* and *Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News*; *Indecent Behavior*; a collaboration with Rosalind Barnett *She Works, He Works: How Two Income Families are Happy, Healthy and Thriving*; and her latest book,* Camelot*, a novel set in the Kennedy administration. Her television drama *A Matter of Principal* won a Gabriel Award as one of the best television dramas of the year. Professor Rivers contributes regularly to *The Boston Globe*, *Los Angeles Times*, *Philadelphia Inquirer*, *Newsday*, and other major US newspapers. She is a frequent public affairs panelist on Boston television stations and is considered an expert on the Kennedy family.

Ms. Casel E. Walker has been an educator in the Boston Public Schools for the past twenty-nine years. She just completed her twelfth year as principal of the Joseph P. Manning Elementary School. Ms. Walker is currently the Cluster 6 Leader. Over the years, she served as a Speech and Language Therapist, a Substantially Separate Classroom Teacher in Special Education, a Reading Specialist, and an Assistant Principal. Ms. Walker holds a Bachelor's Degree from Northeastern University and a Master's Degree in Education from Curry College.

Born in Hall County, a seventh generation resident, Casey Cagle was raised by a single mom. Times were sometimes lean growing up without a father, but Casey was always blessed with the love of a mother and learned early on the values of faith and hard work and a love for God, values which sustain him to this day. A standout football player, he graduated from Johnson High School and attended Gainesville College and Georgia Southern University.

Casey Choung is the GBH News and Radio intern for summer 2023.

**Casey Davis** is project manager of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. She manages the daily activities of the AAPB, such as outreach, access, overseeing web development, coordinating with the Library of Congress on policy and strategy, and assisting with sustainability. She established the Association of Moving Image Archivists' (AMIA) PBCore Advisory Committee to support and improve the Public Broadcasting Core metadata standard. She is the Co-Chair of the New England Archivists Roundtable for Early Professionals and Students (REPS), serves on the NEA Membership Committee, and is Founder of ProjectARCC. As an archivist, Casey is passionate about access and use of audiovisual archival collections and advocacy. Before working on the AAPB, Casey worked for the PBS history documentary series American Experience and earned her MLIS with a concentration in Archives Management from Louisiana State University.

Casey Davis-Kaufman is the Associate Director of GBH Archives and Project Manager for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Casey Grant is the Program Director for the Fire Protection Research Foundation, an affiliate of the National Fire Protection Association. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a Master’s degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, both in Fire Protection Engineering, and he is a Registered Professional Engineer in the states of California and Tennessee. Casey is a Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, and has one fire protection related U.S. patent. Prior to joining the Research Foundation in 2007, Casey was the Secretary of the NFPA Standards Council and Assistant Chief Engineer, where his responsibilities include oversight for the approximate 300 NFPA codes and standards.

Casey McDermott is a senior news editor at New Hampshire Public Radio.

Casey Recupero is the Executive Director of Year Up, a one year, intensive training program that provides urban young adults 18 to 24, with a unique combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate apprenticeship.

Cass R. Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. For 27 years, Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School.[3] Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor[4] and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, and then he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. He was a faculty member at the Law School from 1981 to 2008. Mr. Sunstein is author of many articles and a number of books, including *Republic.com* (2001), *Risk and Reason* (2002), *Why Societies Need Dissent *(2003), *The Second Bill of Rights* (2004), *Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle* (2005), *Worst-Case Scenarios *(2001), and *Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness* (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008). He is now working on various projects involving the relationship between law and human behavior.