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**Dante Ramos** is a columnist on the Boston Globe's Op-Ed page. Ramos joined the Globe's staff in 2006 and has since served as deputy editorial page editor and written editorials on how cultural restrictions limit Boston's economic vitality that earned him a place as a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2014.

**Greg Nojeim** directs the Freedom, Security, and Technology Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C. Nojeim specializes in protecting privacy against government intrusion in the digital age, and he is the lead strategist for the Center for Democracy and Technology's cybersecurity work. He authored an article titled "Cybersecurity and Freedom on the Internet," published in the \_Journal of National Security Law and Policy\_.

**Dianne Glave** is the Coordinator of Diversity Development with the Western Pennsylvania United Methodist Church Conference Center, where she has also served as a pastor. Dr. Glave earned her Ph.D. in History with an emphasis on African American and environmental history. She has published a book titled \_Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage\_ and co-edited another, titled \_To Love the Wind and the Rain: African American Environmental History\_.

**Rev. Dr. Kapya John Kaoma** graduated from Boston University School of Theology in 2010. Rev. Dr. Kaoma is a scholar, pastor, and activist for international human rights.

Howard Axelrod is the author of the memoir \_The Point of Vanishing\_. Axelrod currently teaches writing at GrubStreet in Boston and has previously taught at Harvard University, the University of Arizona, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Hans Abrahamsen is a Danish composer who has published works since the age of sixteen. He is known for his "snow music," pieces focusing on snow and winter scenes. In 2013, he wrote \_let me tell you\_ for soprano and orchestra, which the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed in 2016.

Paul Griffiths is a Welsh writer and music critic. He wrote the libretto for Hans Abrahamsen's \_let me tell you\_ for soprano and orchestra, which the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed in 2016.

Brock Clarke is the author of six novels, his latest work being \_The Happiest People in the World\_ (2014). He currently lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College and in University of Tampa's low residency MFA program.

Andris Nelsons, originally from Latvia, debuted as the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in March 2011. In January 2016, he recorded Hans Abrahamsen's \_let me tell you\_ with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and soprano Barbara Hannigan, and in February 2016 he conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of George Tsontakis's concerto, \_Sonnets\_.

Robert Sheena was named the principal English horn player for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra in 1994. In 2016, he performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of George Tsontakis's concerto for English horn and orchestra, \_Sonnets\_.

Gordon Teskey is a Professor of English at Harvard University. Dr. Teskey is particularly interested in English Renaissance poetry.

Kristopher Jansma is an American author, currently living in Brooklyn. He is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY New Paltz College and has written two books: \_The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards\_ (2013) and \_Why We Came to the City\_ (2016).