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Nina MacLaughlin is the author of _Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung_, a re-telling of Ovid's Metamorphoses told from the perspective of the female figures transformed, published by FSG/FSG Originals in November, 2019. Her first book was the acclaimed memoir _Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter._ Formerly an editor at the _Boston Phoenix_, MacLaughlin then worked for nine years as a carpenter, and is now a books columnist for _The Boston Globe_. Her work has appeared on or in _The Paris Review Daily,_ _The Believer, American Short Fiction,_ the _Los Angeles Review of Books,_ _The Wall Street Journal, Meatpaper,_ and elsewhere. She carves spoons and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Melissa started as the associate digital/health editor at Boston Magazine in September 2012. But this is her second time around the office. She first started her magazine career here as a fact-checker in 2005. She also worked as a reporter/fact-checker at \_ESPN The Magazine\_ and her writing has appeared in \_Marie Claire, Miami New Times\_, CBSSports.com, and more. Melissa is a Massachusetts native but spent half her life in South Florida. She loves all things Boston and the Florida Gators, and has an argument about how she can love both the Red Sox and the Marlins that will knock your socks off. Melissa is also certified to teach Pilates.

Jeff is a Senior Product Manager of Performance Apparel at New Balance, where he's been for 6 years. Prior to that, Jeff was a Buyer Filene’s Dept Stores, Macy’s, Modell’s Sporting Goods, and TJX. Jeff is a multi-sport athlete and still actively plays soccer in a Boston based league, has completed multiple Tough Mudders, and has a regular workout engaging in a variety of different workout methods and techniques.

An expert on all things sports, Matt uses his knowledge and passion to head SBS's sports department. Matt fell in love with sports through the purity of competition at an early age. Through experience from a local sports academy, Matt excels at managing the resources and logistics of league operations. Utilizing his degree from Clark University, Matt's goal is to grow and improve the SBS sports program, as well as enhance the overall SBS Experience. Connect with Matt Rubin on Twitter @SBSCommish

Roger Everett Summons is Professor of Geobiology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a fellow of the Royal Society. Summons is particularly known for the application of organic geochemical techniques to sediments of Precambrian age and modern microbes in order to increase our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth. Currently he is also engaged as a participating scientist with the search for organics in NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. Outside academia Summons is an avid wine connoisseur and roots for the Boston Red Sox.

Burnat leads Bil'in's non-violent struggle in the occupied West Bank. He is the head of the Bil'in Popular Committee against the Wall, which has led weekly demonstrations since 2005 against the Israeli West Bank barrier. He is also head of Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil’in, a pro-Palestinian organization with the stated aims of building a "wide network of people from all over the globe who support Freedom and Justice for all."

Professor Erin E. O’Brien’s research and teaching interests focuses on the politics of poverty and social welfare policy, voting access policymaking in the United States, and gender in political participation/representation. Her work employs a variety of methods and approaches to social science in order to examine the connections among social policy, political thought and action, inequality, and patterns of stratification associated with social groups. Follow Erin on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/Prof\_EOB "Prof. O'Brien on Twitter").

Susanna Rankin Bohme is a lecturer at Harvard University and the author of "Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle." She earned a Ph.D in American Civilization from Brown University in 2008.

Justice Salim Joubran is the first Arab Israeli to serve a permanent appointment to the Supreme Court of Israel. He serves as Chairperson of the Central Elections Committee to the 20th Knesset. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Joubran was a Judge of the District Court and the Magistrate Court in Haifa.

Stepping down after 25 years, Anne Hawley made preservation a priority, introduced meaningful ways for visitors to engage with the Museum's collection, oversaw the addition of a new wing, reenergized the music offering, and created an artist-in-residence program to support artists much in the same manner that the Museum's beloved namesake was known to do throughout her lifetime.

Michael Greenburg is a graduate of Pepperdine University School of Law and was a member and editor of the Pepperdine Law Review. He has been engaged in private law practice since 1984 and is licensed before the Massachusetts Bar, the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the United States Supreme Court.

Profesosor Sarah Bush's research and teaching interests include international relations, democracy promotion, non-state actors in world politics, gender and human rights policy, and Middle East politics. Her book, which is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press, explores how how and why the United States and other developed countries turned to democracy promotion at the end of the Cold War and what the impact of doing so has been. The book combines large-N analysis of new and existing data sets of democracy assistance projects with case studies that draw on field research in Jordan and Tunisia. Other ongoing projects examine the effects of American democracy promotion on public attitudes in the Middle East. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in the journals International Organization and International Studies Quarterly and has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, among others.