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Andy Ashton is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies at Brown University Library. He leads a group of librarians, developers, and technologists devoted to supporting and exploring the intersection of digital library technologies with teaching and research at the university. In addition to general oversight of library technology, he oversees the development of tools, services, and facilities to support emerging modes of scholarship. He has previously worked at Radio Free Asia and Skidmore College, and has degrees in Music, American History, and Information Science.

Patrick Rashleigh is the Data Visualization Coordinator at the Brown University Library, where he creates, teaches, supports, and advocates for visual scholarship. He also oversees the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, a space for experimenting with large-format imagery and collaborative processes. Patrick has an extended interest in engaging with faculty and the educational community around the use of technology in the curriculum. He was selected to participate in the NEH "One Week | One Tool" institute that yielded Anthologize (2010), which enables scholars to format and publish their academic blogs as e-books. He is a founding member and coordinated the user experience design of the TAPAS Project, a platform for publishing, archiving, and visualizing scholarly texts encoded in the TEI standard. Prior to working in higher education, Patrick was the Senior New Media coordinator for the Attorney General of Ontario, overseeing the ministry website and electronic communications. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Masters of Arts in Ethnomusicology.

Flemming Rose is an editor at the Danish newspaper that in 2005 published cartoons of the prophet Mohammad, and author of The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited A Global Debate on the Future of Free Speech.

City Archaeologist Joe Bagley has been a professional archaeologist since 2002. As City Archaeologist, Joe Bagley curates the 31 and counting archaeological collections currently housed at the City Archaeology Laboratory at 201 Rivermoor St. in West Roxbury, acts as the review and compliance agent for below-ground cultural resources in the city, educates the public in archaeology through a number of city programs, and manages Rainsford Island, one of the City’s most important historical holdings. With a decade of archaeological fieldwork on Native American and Historic archaeological sites throughout New England and years of dedicated research on the archaeology of Boston, Joe brings an expert knowledge of the entire human history of Boston to the City Archaeology Program.

Askia Muhammad Abu Bakr el Touré is one of the founding members of the black arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s. As a poet, editor, and activist, Touré helped define a new generation of black consciousness that sought to affirm through the arts the community's African heritage as a means to create an uplifting and triumphal identity for the modern black experience. Touré is the author of several books of poetry and has been published in numerous anthologies.

**Nan Levinson**, a Boston-based journalist, reports on civil liberties, politics, and culture. Her latest book, \_War Is Not a Game\_, is about the recent G.I. antiwar movement. She was the U.S. correspondent for [**Index on Censorship**](http://www.indexoncensorship.org "Index on Censorship"), and teaches journalism and fiction writing at Tufts University. [>>Follow Nan Levinson on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/nanlev "Twitter")

At Sasaki, Dennis Pieprz plays a key role in the planning and urban design practice with specific emphasis on international work. His 25 years of both national and international experience encompass diverse project types including urban districts, new communities, campus environments, waterfronts, and urban regeneration. Through his design practice, Pieprz focuses on strategic thinking and creating value for clients. He approaches his urban design work collaboratively, integrating landscape, planning, and architecture with a critical understanding of the forces that shape contemporary cities. Educated at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the University of Toronto School of Architecture, Dennis speaks regularly at conferences and academic institutions and has participated on several international design competition juries. At Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Dennis teaches in the Professional Development program and in 2010 taught a studio focused on the Boston Innovation District. Pieprz has worked on award-winning projects recognized by the AIA, ASLA, and SCUP. He was inducted as an Honorary member of ASLA—a title bestowed upon only a handful of professionals nationwide, and he served as the youngest president of Sasaki from 2004 until 2011.

Kyu Sung Woo was born in Seoul, Korea and received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Architectural Engineering at Seoul National University. He came to the United States in 1967, where he studied architecture at Columbia University receiving a Master of Architecture in 1968. Mr. Woo then received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design at Harvard University in 1970. During his architectural career Mr. Woo has built extensively, with many major design works implemented, including the 1988 Olympic Village in Seoul, Korea. Mr. Woo has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University, and won the Ho Am Prize in the Arts in 2008. Kyu Sung Woo is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Gavin started practicing over 25 years ago and worked on the design of the 1988 World's Fair and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. His particular area of expertise is transforming challenging sites into valued cultural and natural places as evidenced in cities he worked for. His award winning work has led him to projects around the globe, contributing articles in the Urban Land Institute & Earth Pledge Foundation publications, speaking on landscape & urban design issues, judging excellence in development awards and as a studio instructor at Harvard's School of Design. McMillan has won the CMAA Award for Innovation in Masonry, the P. Behan Memorial Prize for Landscape Design, and the SGAP Prize for Landscape Design. Some of the projects McMillan's has been involved with include: Sydney Olympics 2000, Sydney, Australia Sydney International Athletic & Aquatic Centers, Sydney, Australia Gold Coast Commercial Centre and Marina, Hong Kong, China BMI City, Jakarta, Indonesia World's Fair 1988, Brisbane, Australia

Pianist Wayman Chin has performed widely throughout the United States and Asia. In the United States, his concerts have included performances at Princeton University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Jordan Hall in Boston, at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and on the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco. In the Far East, Mr. Chin has appeared at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, and in the Philippines, on the Sala Foundation concert series, and at the residence of the US Ambassador in Manila. An advocate of new music, Mr. Chin has premiered a number of works by noted composers, including those of Paul Brust, Marti Epstein and Meyer Kupferman; he has also introduced several works of Aaron Jay Kernis to Boston audiences. Of Chin’s performance of Kernis’ song cycle Valentines, with soprano Karyl Ryczek, David Cleary of 21st Century Music wrote, “Wayman Chin traversed the formidable challenges of the piano part with conspicuous success. His highly demonstrative performing style excellently suited the work’s forthright nature.”

Scott McCloud is the award-winning author of Understanding Comics, Making Comics, Zot!, and many other fiction and nonfiction comics spanning thirty years. An internationally-recognized authority on comics and visual communication, technology, and the power of storytelling, McCloud has lectured at Google, Pixar, Sony, and the Smithsonian Institution. His online thoughts, stories, and inventions can be found at scottmccloud.com. The Sculptor is his most recent graphic novel.

Randy Albelda is professor of economics and senior research fellow at the Center for Social Policy at University of Massachusetts Boston. She has worked as research director of the Massachusetts State Senate’s Taxation Committee and the legislature’s Special Commission on Tax Reform. A labor economist, her research and teaching cover a broad range of economic policies affecting low-income women and families. In addition to many academic journal articles and policy reports, she is coauthor of the books, Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women’s Work, Women’s Poverty; Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Wage Discrimination; and The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual. Albelda co-led the Bridging the Gaps project bringing together researchers and advocates from nine states and Washington, DC to examine the gaps between basic needs and earnings in light of welfare reform in the 1990s. In 2012 Albelda co-authored the report, “How Youth Are Put At Risk by Parents' Low-wage Work,” exploring the impact of poverty on social mobility across generations.