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Catherine Carr Kelly (Executive Director, Central Square Theater) was Managing Director of Underground Railway Theater for eleven years and served as Campaign Manager for the Campaign for Central Square Theater for the two years prior to becoming the CST Executive Director. Ms. Carr Kelly is also the Founding Managing Director of the Women on Top Theater Festival of New Works, running from 2000 to 2007. She co-founded the award-winning I Was There Project, an interdisciplinary arts-based oral history residency for elementary schools created in partnership with the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown University. Ms. Carr Kelly is on the Central Square Cultural District Advisory Committee, The MassCreative Leadership Council and a Co-Chair of Development Committee for the Providence Children’s Film Festival. Past board involvement includes the Somerville Arts Council, StageSource, and the Arts/Boston Advisory Board. She served on the inaugural co-hort for the Theater Communications Group’s national Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiative. Ms. Carr Kelly has consulted for theaters, restaurants, communications firms, and statewide arts councils in public relations, small business management, marketing and EDI. She speaks often on the power of collaboration for non-profits at conferences, public forums and universities. Ms. Carr Kelly has also stage managed, assistant directed, and produced original theater in Prague, Czech Republic

Since 1995, The Greater Boston Food Bank has operated under the leadership of Catherine D'Amato, a seasoned food banker and impassioned advocate for the hungry. D'Amato has a solid background in non-profit management as well as experience serving on the board of America's Second Harvest, the national network for domestic food distribution. During her tenure at The Food Bank, D'Amato has demonstrated a consistent commitment not only to increasing the amount of food made available to the hungry, but also to insuring that the food they receive is nutritious and of the highest quality. The Greater Boston Food Bank is a non-profit clearinghouse for donated food, which is distributed to a network of 750 food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, daycare centers for children at risk, and other charitable feeding agencies throughout nine counties in eastern Massachusetts. The Greater Boston Food Bank is one of New England's largest hunger relief organizations, annually distributing 18 million pounds of food, which is the equivalent of almost 14 million meals.

Catherine D’Amato has been in the food industry since the age of 8 when her Italian-immigrant father opened a restaurant in Redding, California. A tireless advocate for the hungry for more than 38 years, D’Amato assumed the leadership of The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) in 1995. Under her guidance, GBFB’s food distribution has increased from the equivalent of 7.5 million meals to more than 50 million healthy meals annually. Today, GBFB is a $95 million charitable business with a network of 526 member food pantries, meal programs and shelters across Eastern Massachusetts, serving more than 140,000 people every month.

Catherine Filloux is an award-winning playwright who has been writing plays about human rights and social justice for over twenty-five years.

Catherine Hurley is a digital producer at GBH News.

Catherine J. Ross teaches as a Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School and, in 2015-2016, a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard School of Education. She is the author of \_Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students' First Amendment Rights\_ (2015). Ross specializes in constitutional law, particularly the First Amendment, family law, and legal issues concerning children. She has been a litigator in New York and has served on a variety of legal committees, including positions as chair of the American Bar Association's Steering Committee on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children and the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Law and Communitarianism.

**Catherine LaRaia** is a Clinical Fellow in the Suffolk Law School’s Housing Discrimination Testing Program (HDTP). Attorney LaRaia develops and implements testing to detect housing discrimination. She works with enforcement and legal service agencies to investigate discrimination complaints. In addition, Attorney LaRaia coordinates testing related to systemic audits and larger research initiatives. Attorney LaRaia also provides trainings on state and federal fair housing laws to communities, real estate professionals and first time home buyers. Prior to joining HDTP, Attorney LaRaia served as a public defender with Committee of Public Counsel Services for six years in District and Superior Courts throughout the Commonwealth. Attorney LaRaia received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Catherine Oglesby is a history professor at Valdosta State University. Her PhD in modern US history comes from Michigan State University. She won the 2004 E. Merton Coulter Award for best paper published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly.

Dr. Catherine M. Parisian has spent the past two years as Project Bibliographer and Scholar in Residence at the Library of Congress, where she researched, compiled a catalogue for, and wrote the history of the first White House Library. Catherine Parisian completed her PhD in 2005 at the University of Virginia, where her research focused on the eighteenth-century English novelist Frances Burney. She regularly reviews books for *The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography* and has published articles in *the Bibliographical Society of Australia*, *New Zealand Bulletin*, and *Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America*. She also has an essay forthcoming in a collection from the twentieth annual De Bartolo Conference.

Catherine Price is a health and science journalist, founder of Screen/Life Balance and the author of How to Break Up with Your Phone and The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.

Freelance writer and cast member of Milk Street TV.

Catherine Snow is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from McGill and worked for several years in the linguistics department of the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include children's language development as influenced by interaction with adults in home and preschool settings, literacy development as related to language skills and as influenced by home and school factors, and issues related to the acquisition of English oral and literacy skills by language minority children. She has co-authored books on language development (e.g., *Pragmatic Development* with Anat Ninio) and on literacy development (e.g., *Unfulfilled Expectations: Home and School Influences on Literacy*, with W. Barnes, J. Chandler, I. Goodman & L. Hemphill), and published widely on these topics in referred journals and edited volumes. Snow's contributions to the field include membership on several journal editorial boards, co-directorship for several years of the Child Language Data Exchange System, and editorship of Applied Psycholinguistics. She served as a board member at the Center for Applied Linguistics and a member of the National Research Council Committee on Establishing a Research Agenda on Schooling for Language Minority Children. She chaired the National Research Council Committee on Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, which produced a report that has been widely adopted as a basis for reform of reading instruction and professional development. She currently serves on the NRC's Council for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and as president of the American Educational Research Association.

Project Co-director Catherine Stifter is a Peabody award-winning freelance editor and independent training/production consultant for community media projects and public radio stations around the US. She's worked in a wide variety of station-based, network and independent jobs in public radio for more than 25 years. Recent editing projects include *Crossing East: First Asians in America*, the first public radio series on Asian American history, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, airing on more than 160 PRI stations during May Asian American History Month, 2006; *Dude, Wheres My River?*, an award-winning student film on California water politics and dam removal; and *The DNA Files*, two award-winning series on genetics, ethics and politics produced by SoundVision and distributed by NPR.