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Richard Boles is an Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University where he teaches about early American history and American religious histories. He received his Ph.D. from the George Washington University and BA and MA degrees from Boston College. Boles researches race relations in northeastern Protestant churches from 1730 to 1850, and his first book manuscript titled Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Racially Segregated Northern Churches is under contract with New York University Press and will be available in 2020 or early 2021. This work examines the transition from racially diverse churches during the early eighteenth century to separate American Indian and African American congregations by the early nineteenth century in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions. Boles has published articles in the Journal of Rhode Island History and the New England Quarterly.

As a sustainability advocate and educator, she joined the USGBC MA, as Executive Director, in November 2017. Before becoming ED, She was developing climate action plans, master plans, design guidelines and green buildings as President of the Elbaum Group, LLC. For almost a decade she was Director of Sustainable Design at Sasaki.

Michael Jay Walsh is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Sustainable Energy. In this role he is the technical lead for the Carbon Free Boston Initiative, which aims to inform the City of Boston’s decarbonization efforts as it works to achieve net zero/carbon-free status by 2050.

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Stanley is the author of Know How; Languages in Context; Knowledge and Practical Interests, which won the American Philosophical Association book prize; and How Propaganda Works, which won the PROSE Award for Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. He lives in New Haven with his family.

Dr. Raul Fernandez is the director of the Higher Education Administration program at Boston University's Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and chair of Wheelock’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee.. He is a well-recognized leader and accomplished speaker on issues of diversity and inclusion, with hundreds of attendees at numerous campuses and conferences having attended his workshops.

Joel Christian Gill™ is the chairman, CEO, president, director of development, majority and minority stock holder, manager , co-manager, regional manager, assistant to the regional manager, receptionist, senior black correspondent and janitor of Strange Fruit Comics. He is the author/illustrator of 2 books from Fulcrum Publishing Strange Fruit vol I Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History May 2014 and Tales of the Talented Tenth Fall 2014. In his spare time he is the Chair of Foundations at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and member of The Boston Comics Roundtable. He received his MFA from Boston University and a BA from Roanoke College. His secret lair is behind a secret panel in the kitchen of his house (sold separately) in New Boston, New Hampshire where he lives with his wife, four children a 2 talking dog and 2 psychic cats. [Wordpress.com](https://joelchristiangill.wordpress.com/about/ "Joel Christian Gill ")

Patricia Montes is the executive director of Centro Presente, one of the longest standing immigrant-led, immigrant rights organizations in Massachusetts. She worked in public relations and communications in both government agencies and non-governmental organizations in Honduras, as well as in television production for over six years. She has served as the Board Chair of the Boston Womens Fund and is currently on the Executive Board of Alianza Américas. She has also been a member of an international human rights mission to Mexico and Central America assembled by Consejería CAMEX which has documented the violations of human rights of migrants in their travels from Central America to the United States.

Nahir Torres, Program Officer, joined the Hyams Foundation in 2012 with a background in access to educational opportunities for Boston teens and positive youth development. Prior to coming to Hyams, she was a Program Officer for Education at The Boston Foundation (TBF). She is an active member of the Social Justice Funders Network and is a member of the national Communities for Just Schools Fund. In July of 2017, Nahir was sworn in as a member of Massachusetts' first-ever Latino Advisory Commission to the Governor. Image: [www.hyamsfoundation.org](http://www.hyamsfoundation.org/WhoWeAre/BoardandStaff.aspx "hyamsfoundation")

Julie C. Day has published over thirty stories in magazines such as Interzone, Podcastle, Black Static, and Split Lip Magazine. Her debut collection Uncommon Miracles is available from PS Publishing. In another exciting first, Julie also has a tabletop story game Divided Lights forthcoming from Evil Hat Productions. Julie’s fiction reflects her relish for the esoteric and scientific. She’s spent an inordinate amount of time researching such topics as the damselfly Ischnura hastate, the ancient city of Teotihuacan, quantum refrigerators, and the late-nineteenth-century Orphan Trains. Julie lives in a small town in New England with her partner, children, a menagerie of variously sized animals, and an increasing amount of clutter and dust. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine and a Masters of Science in Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts. You can find her at @thisjulieday or on her blog stillwingingit.com. Café writing and long baths with paper books are also a thing. Image: [specboston.wordpress.com/](https://specboston.wordpress.com/ "specboston")

A native Louisianan, Camille Manning-Broome is internationally recognized for her expertise in resilience and adaptation planning. Her leadership on issues of land loss, coastal community sustainability, climate change resilience and adaptation as well as resident-led community planning has contributed to the transformation of cities, towns and parishes throughout Louisiana and has created knowledge of interest to peers throughout the U.S. and the globe, from South Africa to Scotland to Denmark. As President and CEO, Camille oversees CPEX’s multidisciplinary team as they develop plans and provide technical assistance, data and research, policy guidance, communications support and thought leadership to communities seeking to make thoughtful decisions about how they develop and grow. Camille is a member of the CPEX Board of Directors and works closely with them to set the organization’s vision and advance CPEX’s mission to bring people and planning together to make great places. Image: [www.cpex.org](https://www.cpex.org/staff-list/ "cpex")

Hillary Monahan is the New York Times Bestselling author of the YA horror MARY: The Summoning through Disney-Hyperion and the acclaimed THE AWESOME under her pen name Eva Darrows. A multi-genre author, Hillary writes everything from horror and comedy to SFF and romance, for young adult and adult audiences alike. 2019 sees her twelfth novel in print Image: [specboston.wordpress.com/](https://specboston.wordpress.com/ "specboston")

Darci Schofield joined MAPC in August 2017. She works with local, state, and federal agencies and community-based organizations providing technical assistance for sustainable and equitable management of natural resources. Her work is mainly focused on climate adaptation and resilience, hazard mitigation, stormwater management, green infrastructure, environmental justice, and open space and habitat protection. In addition to that, she designs and advances the agency’s environmental public policy agenda. Prior to joining MAPC, she was an Urban Program Director at The Trust for Public Land in Boston where she implemented climate-science geospatial planning and resilience with green infrastructure and nature-based solutions in 20 cities throughout MA and RI. Darci started at The Trust for Public Land in 2008 and previously held Project Manager II, Project Manager, and Senior Project Associate before being promoted in 2015. She first began her field in 1998 as a Conservation Organization, Executive Committee, Outings Coordinator at Sierra Club in Portland, ME. Darci holds a MS in Forestry from the University of Maine Orono and a BA in Environmental Science with a minor in Geology from Boston University. She also holds a Negotiation and Leadership Certification from Harvard Law School. Image: [www.mapc.org](https://www.mapc.org/staff-member/darci-schofield/ "mapc")