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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.

With over 15+ years of special event planning and community engagement, Boston native, Catherine T. Morris, has decided to combine both of her passions to start Boston Art & Music Soul (BAMS) Fest. This is a nonprofit organization that strives to breakdown racial and social barriers to arts, music and culture for marginalized communities of color across Greater Boston. Since 2015, the organization has produced and curated a traveling live arts and music series called “The Prelude.” This program entertains and helps audiences of color experience the arts in underutilized spaces across local neighborhoods. As a result, the organization has presented over 100+ local and independent musicians and artists, curated in (10) local venues and has attracted over 2,700+ attendees. It is Catherine’s hope that BAMS Fest becomes a pipeline to Boston’s arts and culture ecosystems in a way that revitalizes the streets of where we live, and can positively impact the livelihoods of our youth, families, and future generations.

Professor Scott's interests include U.S. foreign policy, development theory, gender politics, feminist theory, and U.S. foreign policy in the post-Vietnam era.