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**Natalya St. Clair** is an artist, mathematician, and educator. She has combined these passions to create a series of successful TED-Ed lessons on the intersection of art and mathematics. Her art is featured in mental math books with Dr. Arthur Benjamin at Harvey Mudd College. Her speaking tours highlight the use of art education to further math education on a national level. Natalya earned her BA in art and mathematics at Scripps and is currently pursuing her masters degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education. You can follow Natalya on Twitter @natalyastclair or her blog mathartist.wordpress.com.

Kim Lewis is a University Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University. The focus of his research is on antimicrobial drug tolerance and drug discovery.

Jerold Kayden is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He previously served as Co-Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and as Director of the Master in Urban Planning Degree Program. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between law and the built environment and public-private urban development.

Julian Vasquez Heilig is an award-winning researcher and teacher. He has served as a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership at California State Sacramento. Follow @ProfessorJVH on Twitter

Nicholas Ashford is Professor of Technology and Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses in Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics; Law, Technology, and Public Policy; and Sustainability, Trade and Environment. He is director of the Technology and Law Program at MIT. Dr. Ashford is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development in the School of Engineering; the Institute for Work and Employment Research in the Sloan School of Management; and the Environmental Policy Group in the Urban Studies Department. He holds both a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a Law Degree from the University of Chicago, where he also received graduate education in Economics. Dr. Ashford also is visiting scientist in Occupational and Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and teaches intensive courses in Sustainable Development, and European & International Environmental Law at Cambridge University, UK and at the Cyprus University of Technology.

Tim Love is the current president of the BSA and the founding principal of Utile. Love’s primary focus is the relationship between individual works of architecture and the larger city – both through his work as an architect and urban designer.

**Brian Skerry** is the Aquarium's Explorer in Residence and an award-winning \_National Geographic Magazine\_ photographer who specializes in marine wildlife subjects and stories about the underwater world. For 30 years he has explored the world’s oceans in an effort to produce images of elusive animals and rarely seen behavior. Brian typically spends up to 8 months each year in the field working in locations of extreme contrasts from polar climes to tropical reefs. **Recent Expeditions** See Brian's work and read his updates from the field on the Aquarium's Global Explorers Blog. Don't miss his posts from Indonesia, Antarctica the Sea of Cortez and the Phoenix Islands.

Michael Dimock is president of Pew Research Center. A survey researcher and political scientist by training, he oversees the center’s overall operations and research agenda, including research on politics, religion, demographics, media, technology and international issues. Dimock has worked at Pew Research Center for more than a decade. He was first hired by the center’s founding director, Andrew Kohut, in 2000, became associate director for research in 2004 and then succeeded Kohut as director of the center’s political polling unit in 2012. He has been the co-author of several of the center’s landmark research reports, including its studies of long-term trends in American political and social values and its polling reports from the last several presidential cycles. In 2014, as vice president of research, he oversaw the execution and analysis of the largest U.S. political survey that the Pew Research Center has conducted, an in-depth examination of the nature and scope of political polarization within the American public.

With unique interest in the intersection of tourism, well-being, local economies and biking, **Megan Ramey** founded Bikabout.com in 2014. Bikabout inspires two-wheeled tourism in North America's best biking cities with curated routes and city guides. Since moving to Boston in 2008, Ramey has seen, in real time, the amazing changes to our streets as a board member for LivableStreets Alliance and member of both the Boston Bikes Advisory Group and Cambridge Bike Committee. She received an MBA from University of Wisconsin and a degree in fashion from University of Georgia. Ramey loves playing in the water and snow, cooking at home, listening to new music and biking with her daughter. Their family blog is Pugvelo.com, where Gordo, their pug, explores the world by bike, train and bus. Follow Megan Ramey on twitter [@bikabout](https://twitter.com/bikabout "")

Peabody Essex Musuem's Head Curator **Austen Barron Bailly** leads talk on exhibition \_American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood. \_ Bailly previously worked as the Head of the American Art Department at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA). She also held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wildenstein & Co. Inc. in New York. [Photo Credit](http://www.pem.org/press/press\_release/231-pem\_appoints\_first\_curator\_of\_american\_art "")

**Cara Seiderman** is Transportation Program Manager for the City of Cambridge, overseeing the City’s bike share program (Hubway) and managing the Bicycle and Pedestrian Mobility Program. Ms. Seiderman has worked in an advisory capacity for several state and national design and technical guides, and frequently gives presentations and workshops on pedestrian and bicycle facility planning, traffic calming, and livable city design. She holds Masters Degrees in City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelors Degree in environmental policy from Harvard University. Ms. Seiderman was a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

**Tivan Amour** is an avid city cyclist, serial entrepreneur, and delighter of customers. As co-founder and CRO of Fortified Bicycle, Amour oversees the global distribution of invincible urban bike gear. Amour studied consumer psychology at UPenn and paid his way through school as a top retail sales associate for AT&T Wireless. After college, he ran product development and manufacturing for a $40M retail fashion business. Amour's entrepreneurial pursuits have taken him everywhere from Mexican shoe factories to German aircraft hangars, and so far he’s enjoyed the ride. Follow Tivan Amour on Twitter [@fortifiedbike](https://twitter.com/fortifiedbike "")