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Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People’s Choice award for best fiction in the same year.

Dr. Tatiana Cruz is a Boston native and an Assistant Professor and Director of Africana Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Simmons University. She is also the Founding Co-Director of the North Star Collective, a regional consortium of colleges and universities committed to racial equity and uplifting BIPOC faculty.

Natalie Dykstra, professor emerita of English at Hope College in Michigan, is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and has served as a board member of the Biographers International Organization since 2020.

Margaret Talcott joined American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society in 2019, taking up the mission to educate, inspire, and connect people through inspiring events and author talks.

Susan Eisenhower is the granddaughter of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower and the CEO and Chairman of The Eisenhower Group, Inc., a Washington D.C. based consulting company founded in 1986.

Brock Dolman is a co-founder of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (www.oaec.org), where he co-directs the Permaculture Program, Wildlands Program and the WATER Institute in Sonoma County, California. He is a wildlife biologist, permaculture designer and watershed ecologist and has been active in promoting the idea of Bringing Back the Beaver in California since the late 1990’s.

Kate Lundquist co-directs the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s WATER Institute and the Bring Back the Beaver Campaign. Kate collaborates with landowners, communities, tribes, conservation organizations and resource agencies across the arid west to uncover obstacles and identify strategic solutions to conserve watersheds, recover listed species, increase water security and build resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Joseph M. Adelman is an associate professor of history at Framingham State University and an associate editor of The New England Quarterly. He is the author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789.

Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Plaza, a New York Times’ Editor’s Choice and NPR Favorite Book of 2019. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor at The Atlantic.

Petra Slinkard is the Director of Curatorial Affairs and The Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. She oversees the museum’s Fashion and Design collection and gallery and stewards PEM’s award-winning curatorial program.

Patrick Griffin teaches history at Notre Dame. He also directs the Keough-Naughton Institute. He has written a number of books on eighteenth-century Atlantic history, empire, and the era of the American Revolution. His most recent is: The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World, which came out with Yale University Press.