People

Alex Krieger has combined a career of teaching and practice, dedicating himself in both to improving the quality of place and life in our major urban areas. Alex is the founding Principal of Chan Krieger Sieniewicz which merged with NBBJ in 2009. He is a Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1977. During his tenure he has served as Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Director of the Urban Design Program, and Associate Chairman of the Department of Architecture. Alex is a frequent advisor to mayors and their planning staffs, and serves on a number of boards and commissions. Among these: Director of the NEA's Mayor's Institute in City Design; Boston Civic Design Commission; Providence Capital Center Commission; and the New England Holocaust Memorial committee. In September 2012, President Barack Obama appointed Alex to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.

Alex Lemon is the author of the poetry collections *Hallelujah Blackout* (Milkweed Editions), *Mosquito* (Tin House Books 2006), *At Last Unfolding Congo* (horse less press) and the memoir *Happy* (Scribner 2010). A play will be published by cinematheque press in 2010. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including *Esquire*, *Best American Poetry 2008*, *AGNI*, *BOMB*, *Gulf Coast*, *jubilat*, *Kenyon Review*, *New England Review*, *Open City*, *Pleiades* and *Tin House*. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits *LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation* with Ray Gonzalez and is a frequent contributor to *The Bloomsbury Review*.

**Alex Myers** is a writer, teacher, speaker, and activist. At Phillips Exeter Academy, Alex came out as transgender, and was the first transgender student in that Academy's history. After Exeter, Alex earned his bachelor's at Harvard University, studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and living in the Dudley Co-op. Alex was also the first openly transgender student at Harvard and worked to change the University's nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. Subsequent to earning a master's degree in religion at Brown, Alex has pursued a career in teaching English at secondary schools. He completed his Master's of Fine Arts in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he began his work on \_Revolutionary\_.

Alex Nowrasteh is the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. An economist by training, Nowrasteh has published widely in the mainstream press, including The Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury, and Richmond Times-Dispatch, as well as online for the Huffington Post.

Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland helped to create and direct the Media Lab, where he directs the Human Dynamics research group and leads the Connection Science initiative. One of the most-cited scientists in the world, Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General, and a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies including social enterprises such as the Data Transparency Lab, the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance, and the Institute for Data-Driven Design. Pentland and his students pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics (Penguin Press, 2014) and Honest Signals (MIT Press, 2008). He received his BS in computer science from the University of Michigan, and his PhD in computer science, psychology, and AI from MIT. Pentland is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a leader within the World Economic Forum, and has received numerous awards and prizes including the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.

Alex Rabe is the founder, brewer, and CMO for Portico Brewing Company based in Massachusetts. He previously worked at the marketing director for Pinck & Co., Inc. He earned an MBA from Babson's School of Business.

Alex Ross, music critic for *The New Yorker*, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, a Holtzbrinck Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for significant contributions to the field of contemporary music.

**Alex Speier** is a sports reporter for the Boston Globe. He joined the Globe in January 2015, after six years as a senior writer covering the Red Sox for WEEI.com and 13 total seasons covering the Red Sox for a variety of publications. His past professional lives included detours into academic administration at Harvard University and time spent as a writer and editor for Let's Go Travel Guides, for whom he explored such far-flung regions as Germany, South Africa, and Cleveland.

Alex Stuebler is director of strategic marketing for Siemens Energy and Automation. He graduated from the University of Erfurt in Germany, with degrees in mathematics and physics.

Alex Wang is based in NRDC's Beijing office, working with China's policy-makers, fledgling environmental groups, and legal community to strengthen environmental protection in this, the largest and fastest growing country in the world. Prior to moving to Beijing in 2004, he lived in one of the world's other most bustling cities, New York City, and worked as an associate attorney at a private law firm. He graduated from New York University School of Law, and received a B.S. in Biology from Duke University.

Originally from a small college town in Minnesota, Alex Weck moved to Somerville in 2007 hoping to pursue life without a car. After thinking that he’d take the ‘T’ regularly for his commute, he discovered that biking was simply much more effective in Greater Boston. Through working in Roxbury with numerous urban agriculture initiatives and in Lawrence with a community bike initiative Alex did his best to climb the steel ladder of understanding inequity. For the past five years Alex has lived in Springfield, approaching a broad swath of community projects including founding RadSpringfield Community Bike Project to promote access to bike repair, acquisition, and education.

Alexa Jordan is a playwright and actress based in New York City.

Dr. Alexander Altschuller practices Cardiovascular Disease Cardiology Internal Medicine in Massachusetts.

Alexander Guryanov received his Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of Moscow and began his professional career in 1975 working as a scientist in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Science. In 1993 Dr. Guryanov joined the Human Rights Center “Memorial” in Moscow. Soon thereafter he became the chief coordinator of the Polish Program within the Memorial Group and worked as a liaison for the Polish Human Rights Commission. In this capacity he authored many scholarly articles on Soviet political repressions directed at the Poles and Polish citizens of other nationalities. He co-edited a major work entitled “Repressions of the Poles and Polish citizens of other nationalities” published by the Memorial in Moscow. He also co-authored 15 volumes of the series entitled “Index of Repressed” published together with the Warsaw office of the “Karta” Center between 1997 and 2007 in Warsaw. Since 2007, Dr. Guryanov has been officially representing the Human Rights Center “Memorial” before the Russian courts in connection with numerous complaints filed by the Memorial with respect to the Russian investigation of the Katyo crime.