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Before taking on the leadership of Project Bread, Ms. Parker was Vice President of Programs at Crittenton Hastings House, Boston; Regional Director of Catholic Charities, Boston; and Senior Policy Advisor for Human Services to Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn. She holds two masters degrees from Boston University, one in social work and one in business administration and public management. In 2001, Ms. Parker was awarded the New England Womens Leadership Award for outstanding leadership in human services and, in 2003, the Hubie Jones Award for Urban Service, issued by Boston University's School of Social Work. In 2004, as a result of Ms. Parker's leadership, Project Bread was recognized by the Washington, D.C.-based Congressional Hunger Center for its work in effectively fighting hunger in Massachusetts. In 2007, Ellen Parker was granted the Heroes Among Us award by the Boston Celtics for her overwhelming impact on the lives of others. In 2008, she was selected by the Boston Municipal Research Bureau to receive the prestigious Shattuck City Champion Award for her significant contribution to the Boston community. And in 2009, she was selected by the Greater Boston Federal Executive Board to receive the Speaker Thomas P. ONeill, Jr. Award for Exemplary Public Service at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.

David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1987 for *Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land*. He is an alumnus of Dartmouth College and served on the College's Board of Trustees from 1993 to 2003.

As a Senior Policy Advocate at MLRI, Pat works on a range of legislative, administrative, and policy matters that affect low-income families, elders and persons with disabilities. Prior to joining MLRI, Pat was a paralegal in Western Massachusetts Legal Services from 1977 to 1983 where she focused on disability, unemployment, and public benefits cases. Since 2002, under her leadership as chair of the Massachusetts Food Stamp Improvement Coalition, the Coalition has negotiated extensive policy changes to restore significant federal nutrition benefits to the Commonwealth. She has been a contributing author and edited numerous publications, including *the Food Stamp Advocacy Guide*, *EAEDC Advocacy Guide*, and *TAFDC and EA Advocacy Guide*; as well as the original *Down and Out Advocacy Guide* and the benefits section of *Legal Tactics*, 4th and 5th Editions.

**Thomas M. McGee** is the current major of Lynn, MA. He formerly served the Third Essex District, which includes the communities of Lynn, Lynnfield, Marblehead, Nahant, Saugus, and Swampscott. Before his election to the Senate in 2002, McGee served four terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he represented West Lynn and Nahant. Before running for public office, McGee was a lawyer.

Peter Galison is the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University and the author of *How Experiments End; Image and Logic*; as well as the newly published *Einstein's Clocks and Poincar*.

Dr. Baldwin was born in South Carolina and developed an early love for the ocean while living near the seashore and exploring along the beaches. She studied at James Madison University (B.S. biology), the College of Charleston (M.S. Marine Biology), and the College of William and Mary (Ph.D. Marine Science). She has published over three dozen scientific papers, including descriptions of new fish species from Belize, Tobago, Cook Islands, and Australia. She is on the editorial board for *Copeia* - the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Steering Committee for the Caribbean Coral Reefs Ecosystems Program of the National Museum of Natural History. She has recently developed presentations entitled "Fishes!, Bizarre Beginnings Beneath the Sea: A Little Fish Story", and "Galapagos: Way Beyond Darwin". Dr. Baldwin has been featured in *Smithsonian*, *Rodale Scuba Diving*, *More Magazine*, *The Washington Post*, *The Los Angeles Times*, *The International Herald Tribune*, *The Miami Herald*, and on the ABC television special *Planet Earth 2000*.

Jesse Levey has a long history as an innovator and entrepreneur. As the founder and CEO of United Leaders, Levey led the path towards innovation in civic leadership. In 2000, he served as a youth coordinator for John McCain's President Campaign where he harnessed the power of the web meeting media by developing a creative strategy that enabled Senator McCain to reach millions. He was the producer and host of the #1 rated Tufts University television program, "Jumbo Love Match," where he created new ways to use technology to build social interaction. Levey served as an account director for the Corporate Executive Board managing relationships with Fortune 200 members including Microsoft, Merrill Lynch, and Google. Levey is the recipient of numerous awards including the San Francisco City Club Board of Governor's Leadership Award, USA Today All-USA College Academic Second Team, and even being named by the Improper Bostonian & Boston Magazine as one of Boston's most eligible bachelors. Levey graduated from Tufts University Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Political Science and Communications and Media Studies. He is currently pursuing an MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeffrey Sánchez is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Sánchez represents the Fifteenth Suffolk/Norfolk district, which is made up of the Boston communities Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, and Roslindale, as well as the Precinct 5 of the Town of Brookline, MA. Sánchez was born in the Washington Heights area of New York City and raised in the Boston neighborhood of Mission Hill. He went to the University of Massachusetts Boston where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Legal Education. Later, Sánchez attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he received a Master in Public Administration (MPA) in 2011 and was a Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Rappaport Urban Scholar. Rep. Sánchez became Chair of the MA House Ways and Means Committee in July 2017.

Helen Lemoine has served as the executive director of Leadership MetroWest since 2000. Helen is a 1993 alumna of the organization's highly acclaimed flagship program, The Leadership Academy, to which she credits her involvement in community and civic affairs. Helen serves the community in many volunteer capacities and is on the Board of Directors of the MetroWest YMCA, the Framingham History Center, and the Massachusetts Citizens Housing and Planning Association. She is on the steering committee of the MetroWest Nonprofit Network, The START Partnership and the SuAsCo Watershed Community Council. She is a recipient of the Athena Award, a national award, given regionally through the MetroWest Chamber, honoring women leaders who achieve excellence in their profession, inspire women to achieve their full potential, and give back to the community in a meaningful way.