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Cassandra Pybus is an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Sydney, and is the founder of the Australian Humanities Review. Pybus has published extensively on Australian, American and Transatlantic history. Her interests span as broadly as Australian social history, colonial history in North America, South East Asia, Africa and Australia, slavery and the history of labor, and the history of Tasmanian Aborigines. She has won numerous awards, most recently the Adelaide Festival Prize for Non Fiction in 2001 for her controversial book The Devil and James McAuley.

Cassandra Burke Robertson is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, and International Civil Litigation. She received a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as joint master's degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Public Affairs. Professor Robertson's scholarship focuses on organizational theory and institutional choice within a globalizing practice of law.

Cassandria Campbell is the co-founder of Fresh Food Generation, a farm-to-plate food truck that serves healthy affordable prepared foods in low-income neighborhoods. Cassandria, a Roxbury native, became a food justice advocate while working at The Food Project, a nationally recognized model for youth development and sustainable agriculture. Upon graduating from Swarthmore College, she returned to the organization to be the Youth Development Coordinator in which role she led a 60-youth summer program and coordinated a one-year leadership program. In 2011, she received a Masters degree in City Planning from MIT and continues to work in the field of community and economic development. Cassandria developed the idea for Fresh Food Generation because she wanted to find healthier food options without having to travel outside of her neighborhood.

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\_Castle of our Skins\_ celebrates Black artistry through music. From classrooms to concert halls, \_Castle of our Skins\_ invites exploration into Black heritage and culture, spotlighting both unsung and celebrated figures of past and present while seeking to empower organizations as social change agents through the power of dialogue and culturally diverse programming.

Cate Oswald, Chief Policy and Partnership Officer, Partners In Health (PIH) In this role Cate leads a team with a mandate to drive global strategy for PIH’s policy, advocacy, government accompaniment, and institutional partnerships efforts, working hand-in-hand with global leaders on how the work of PIH strengthens the efforts of local, district and national governments and how that work translates into redefining how high quality health care is delivered globally. Cate is a passionate advocate for universal health care, for social justice and global health equity which her previous years of working and living in Haiti and Liberia with PIH have informed. Cate has extensive experience working on issues of social justice locally in Rhode Island and Massachusetts through homeless rights initiatives, especially in access to nutrition, housing, and health care. Internationally, Cate has worked in Sub Saharan Africa, South America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific on initiatives aimed at understanding the social context of disease while working hand-in-hand with communities and governments to improve health outcomes and fight for structural change. She earned her MPH in Epidemiology and Program Design and a BA in International Development and Community Health from Brown University and for the past 15 years has served as a course leader and instructor in Brown University’s Leadership Institute Global Health program.

The president of the Massachusetts Historical Society and is a noted historian, non-profit leader, and public history innovator.

Catherine Ayoub is a developmental and licensed counseling psychologist with research and practice interests in the impact of childhood trauma across the life span, and the development and implementation of prevention and intervention systems to combat risk and promote resilience with emphasis on young children. Ayoub also holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School and is senior staff at the Law and Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she serves as a forensic mental health expert for children and adults involved with the legal system.

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.