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Halsey works as a musician and sound artist living outside of Boston. Both his installations and musical performances make extensive use of spoken human voice recordings as musical elements, alongside traditional and electronic instruments. He collects these voices from otherwise uninvolved individuals whom he records in various locations, from museums to street corners to rock clubs. Halsey's most recent sound art installation, *Scapes*, was on exhibit at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, through November 2010. This piece is a location-sensitive evolving musical composition that allows participants to augment the physical landscape of the museum's sculpture park by leaving audio commentary in locations of their choosing for future participants to hear.

Julie Burba grew up in Manlius, Illinois, a small farm town (pop. 450) surrounded by corn and soybean fields and hog farms. Although not from a farming family herself, she spent high school summers detasseling seed corn and walking soybean fields to remove ‘rogue’ corn stalks. Julie attended and graduated from Western Illinois University, earning a BA in Mass Communications and Journalism. Her first job out of college was with the Bureau County Farm Bureau, working to promote USDA and IDA (Illinois Dept. of Agriculture) policies and programs to area farmers. She moved to Boston in 1990 and worked for the American Meteorological Society and Harvard University in their respective public affairs departments. Meanwhile, Julie also worked at the Essex Sea Grille and the Women’s City Club of Boston as a prep cook and catering staff. In 2001 Julie decided to pursue her passion for cooking and baking at The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts (CSCA). She enrolled in the School's Professional Chef's Program and earned her culinary arts diploma in 2002. After graduating, Julie joined the staff of Formaggio Kitchen as its Sous Chef/Catering Manager. During this time she also started teaching cooking classes in the CSCA’s Recreational Program and catering private parties. Julie also worked as a rounds cook at Tomasso Trattoria and Enoteca in Southborough, MA. She earned the Certified Culinary Professional certificate from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) in March 2003. Through her responsibilities at the CSCA, she is able to advise, lead, and educate students on not only the technical aspects of cooking but also the social responsibilities of the culinary industry. She is a member of Chef's Collaborative, the American Corn Growers Association, the Kansas City Barbecue Society, and Slow Food and volunteers at Pete & Jen's Backyard Birds processing chickens. She is currently the Director of Marketing & Communications and a chef instructor at The CSCA.

Julie Burba grew up in Manlius, Illinois, a small farm town (pop. 450) surrounded by corn and soybean fields and hog farms. Although not from a farming family herself, she spent high school summers detasseling seed corn and walking soybean fields to remove ‘rogue’ corn stalks. Julie attended and graduated from Western Illinois University, earning a BA in Mass Communications and Journalism. Her first job out of college was with the Bureau County Farm Bureau, working to promote USDA and IDA (Illinois Dept. of Agriculture) policies and programs to area farmers. She moved to Boston in 1990 and worked for the American Meteorological Society and Harvard University in their respective public affairs departments. Meanwhile, Julie also worked at the Essex Sea Grille and the Women’s City Club of Boston as a prep cook and catering staff. In 2001 Julie decided to pursue her passion for cooking and baking at The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts (CSCA). She enrolled in the School's Professional Chef's Program and earned her culinary arts diploma in 2002. After graduating, Julie joined the staff of Formaggio Kitchen as its Sous Chef/Catering Manager. During this time she also started teaching cooking classes in the CSCA’s Recreational Program and catering private parties. Julie also worked as a rounds cook at Tomasso Trattoria and Enoteca in Southborough, MA. She earned the Certified Culinary Professional certificate from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) in March 2003. Through her responsibilities at the CSCA, she is able to advise, lead, and educate students on not only the technical aspects of cooking but also the social responsibilities of the culinary industry. She is a member of Chef's Collaborative, the American Corn Growers Association, the Kansas City Barbecue Society, and Slow Food and volunteers at Pete & Jen's Backyard Birds processing chickens. She is currently the Director of Marketing & Communications and a chef instructor at The CSCA.

JJ Gonson is a mom and self-trained personal chef with over 25 years of experience in kitchens of all kinds, in a lot of places. She is a strong advocate of real food and endeavors to use locally sourced and grown ingredients in her cooking. With her team, Cuisine en Locale, she supports the farm to table movement by working directly with farmers to put the freshest, most healthy and most delicious food on her party tables. Cuisine en Locale has been named Best Personal Chef by Boston Magazine.

Stephen Reucroft is Emeritus Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Northeastern University. He received his PhD in particle physics from Liverpool University. The first 20 years of Reucroft's career were devoted to precision determinations of challenging quantities using specially designed, high-resolution bubble chambers. These include resonance properties, hyperon magnetic moments, and charm particle production and decay characteristics. The latter is particularly noteworthy since the CERN bubble chamber LEBC was specially designed to investigate charm particle properties, and Reucroft was one of the inventors and prime motivators of the LEBC technique. He was leader of both CERN and Fermilab experiments. Since leaving CERN and joining Northeastern University, he has devoted his efforts to experiments at the highest energy colliders. He spent significant time developing the scintillating fiber technique and successfully tested it with the tracking system in L3. He is also part of research teams that have studied QCD (quantum chromodynamics) and QED (Quantum electrodynamics), discovered and studied the t-quark, and confirmed that there are three and only three generations of light neutrinos. Reucroft is presently an active participant in the CMS experiment at CERN. He has a wide range of experience in international collaboration and has been a spokesman for major international experiments. He is coauthor (with John Swain) of the syndicated column "Science Briefs," published in *The Boston Globe*.

Hannah T. Freedberg has served as Development and Outreach Director for the Federation of Mass Farmers Markets (www.massfarmersmarkets.org) since 2004, and she is passionate about the power of farmers markets to build healthier communities. Hannah is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Studies from Antioch University, with a specific focus on Food System Education. She has worked with farmers and at farmers markets since 1993. While Hannah has mucked cow barns, weeded row after row of vegetables, and harvested and sold local produce galore, her particular passion is facilitating conversations among people of all ages about the impact our food choices have on the health of our planet, on the health of our economies, and on our health as individuals. From 1996 through 2003, she ran farm learning programs and camps for children ages 5 – 18. For over 15 years Hannah has had a front row seat for the explosion of interest in local and sustainable agriculture. She is proud that her current work allows her to educate consumers about sustainable options for growing, buying, preparing, and eating the food that sustains them. She blogs about her perspective on the food movement, and about what she’s eating, at www.strawberriesandtomatoes.blogspot.com

Marty Nolan covered politics for *The Boston Globe* beginning in 1961. In 1969, he became the *Globe's *Washington bureau chief and in 1981, editor of the *Globe's* editorial page. After retiring from the *Globe* in 2001, he now writes frequently for *The Huffington Post*.

Jeffrey Toobin covers legal affairs for *The New Yorker* and is senior analyst for CNN Worldwide. He is the author of *The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court*, which won the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Prize for Nonfiction from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

“Energetic”, “Positive”, “Insightful”, “An Entertainer”, “A True Educator”, “Just Plain Fun”. These are just a few of the ways Emmy Award winning Peachtree TV Executive Director of “Community Interest Content” Jeff Johnson or “JJ” has been described in the entertainment, film/television, radio, promotional and sport marketing industries. In his current role, “Jeff” is charged with serving as the public face of Peachtree TV, hosting a Sunday morning “Community Interest” show called, “JJ on Atlanta” and creating outreach initiatives geared to the Atlanta community.

Liz Diamond is a Resident Director at Yale Rep and chairs the Directing Department at Yale School of Drama. Her world premiere production of Jordan Harrison's FUTURA is currently running at NAATCO in New York. Other productions include Lucinda Coxon's HAPPY NOW? at Primary Stages and Yale Rep; Catherine Treischmann's CROOKED at the Women's Project; Marcus Gardley's DANCE OF THE HOLY GHOSTS, Strindberg's MISS JULIE, Sunil Kuruvilla's FIGHTING WORDS and RICE BOY, Seamus Heaney's THE CURE AT TROY, Brecht's ST JOAN OF THE STOCKYARDS at Yale Rep; Lisa Loomer's DISTRACTED, Octavio Solis' GIBRALTAR and Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Racine's PHEDRE at the American Repertory Theatre; and Suzan-Lori Parks' THE AMERICA PLAY and THE DEATH OF THE LAST BLACK MAN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD at the Public and Yale Rep. Liz has been awarded the OBIE and the Connecticut Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Direction. She has enjoyed collaborating with Anna Deavere Smith on many occasions, including projects at the Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard, the Juilliard School, and the Yale School of Medicine.

Fab 5 Freddy is a pioneer, a cultural legend and one of the key architects who brought hip-hop culture worldwide and mainstream. Born in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Fab 5 Freddy began his journey as a young visual artist, executing graffiti pieces throughout New York City. His 1980 homage to Andy Warhol, a subway car covered in Campbell's soup cans is considered one of the all-time classics of subway graffiti. Fab then begins to exhibit his paintings on canvas in major galleries here and abroad. At that time he became the liaison between New York's downtown film, music and art scenes and the new hip-hop scene developing in Harlem and the Bronx. He was affiliated with close friends and art world titans Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and appeared along with Basquiat in Blondie's ground breaking 1981 music video, "Rapture", in which lead singer Debbie Harry immortalized him in that song with the lyrics, "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly..." He's also featured in Basquiat's film, "Downtown 81. Fab soon brought his vision to the big screen and produced, composed all the original instrumental music, and starred in the 1981 cinematic classic, Wild Style. Wild Style is the first hip-hop feature film, recently recognized by Rolling Stone magazine as number 7 on their list of the top 25 Music DVDs of All Time. His 1982 single, "Change The Beat", is a hip-hop classic that has been sampled and scratched by producers and DJ's countless times. In 1988, MTV tapped Fab 5 Freddy to be the first host of Yo! MTV Raps, which quickly becomes the highest rated show on the channel. It was his idea to be the first VJ to take a show out of MTV's studios onto the streets, across the country and then over seas. He brought MTV instant credibility along with his intelligent, engaging and insightful forays into the depths of hip hop culture and it's major players. Fab 5 Freddy is also a prolific film director having lensed dozens of ground breaking music videos and commercials for artists like Queen Latifah, KRS-One, Nas, Snoop Doggy Dog and many more. In addition, Fab has published numerous articles and essays on pop cultural topics for publications like Vibe, XXL, Interview and The New York Times Magazine and he penned the first dictionary of Hip Hop slang titled, "Fresh Fly flavor". Beyond the page and the small screen, Fab 5 Freddy was an associate Producer of the classic New Jack City and a consultant on and appeared in 2007's block buster hit, American Gangster. Fab also recently guest stared on Law And Order: Criminal Intent where he played the gunned down rapper, "Fulla-T". And in 2007 Fab 5 Freddy, as well as being an executive producer for the show was awarded with a VH1 Hip-Hop Honor award for his involvement in Hip Hop's first feature film, Wild Style.

Judith Miller is Collegiate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in The Department of French at NYU. Her areas of research include French theatre (text and production) and French-language theatre from outside of "the hexagon." She is widely published in these fields and has translated some twenty plays from the French. Her last book focused on French director Ariane Mnouchkine and Le Théâtre du Soleil (Ariane Mnouchkine, Routledge, 2007). Her edition of Israeli writer Michal Govrin's stories and essays, Hold On To The Sun, has just been published by The Feminist Press. She is currently working on two anthologies of plays by African Francophone writers.