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Alán Aspuru-Guzik is a professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. The Aspuru-Guzik Research Group focuses on a wide range of modern needs, including computation, information, energy, and other fields where scientists are exploiting the power of quantum mechanics.

Amadou L. Ba earned his undergraduate degree and his doctorate in biology from Ohio State University. Ba hopes to spearhead student exchanges between America and Senegal. Ba was previously an associate professor at Bunker Hill Community College.

Amala Mahadevan is a leading researcher in the fields of physical oceanography and climate, the oceanic carbon cycle, and biogeochemical distributions. Dr. Mahadevan and members of her WHOI lab have developed advanced models and analytics to investigate physical ocean processes and their implications for the productivity and distribution of phytoplankton, and the transport and mixing of properties. She has developed a non-hydrostatic ocean model suited to modeling limited domains in order to capture meso- and sub-mesoscale phenomena.

Amalie M. Kass is a lecturer on the History of Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is co-author of *Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Hodgkin*, and author of numerous journal articles and encyclopedic entries.

Amanda is a marketing consultant and food journalist based in Boston. She recently received her M.A. in gastronomy from Boston University, where she focused on food history, culture & communications. She has a background in radio and podcasting and loves to dj, even if it's just for the benefit of her cats and neighbors.

Amanda Beland was the lead producer of WGBH News' In It Together, and an associate producer with WGBH News' All Things Considered until 2021.

Amanda Figueroa is the Co-founder and Managing Curator of Brown Art Ink. She is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. Her dissertation focuses on the role of exhibition design in audience engagements with art by Latina artists. She believes that public art education is the future of civic education, and the fastest path for community development. Image: Linkedin

Amanda Hesser is the former editor of *T Living* and the former food editor at *The New York Times Magazine*. She joined *The New York Times* as a "Dining In/Dining Out" reporter in July 1997 and has covered topics from manzanilla sherry in Spain to the cranberry industry to the use of salt as a seasoning in desserts. In 2001 she wrote "Food Diary," a column in *The New York Times Magazine*. Amanda is the author of *Cooking For Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes* and *The Cook and the Gardener*. Both books won the Literary Food Writing award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Amanda lives in Brooklyn Heights with her husband, Tad Friend.

Amanda manages web, email, social media, multimedia, and print communications for GLAD's Public Affairs and Education department. Prior to joining GLAD in March 2007, Amanda served for six years as the Managing Director of The Boston Jewish Film Festival, where she oversaw all print and electronic communications, as well as all festival logistics. She first discovered the power of the Internet in the mid-90s through her work with the Austin, Texas-based grassroots media training center Women's Access to Electronic Resources, and through her work designing the first website for the Feminist Bookstore Network. Amanda is a former performer and Board Member with the dance company Big Moves Boston, a former Board Member of Women in Film & Video/New England, and served as the Programmer/Coordinator for the Boston LGBT Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts from 2005-2009. She holds a Masters Degree in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Amanda Lange serves as the curatorial department chair and curator of historic interiors at Historic Deerfield, Inc. Her most recent exhibition, "The Canton Connection: Art and Commerce of the China Trade, 1784-1860," focused on trade relations between America and China in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as well as highlighting Historic Deerfield's remarkable collection of Chinese export art. As a Mars Fellow, Amanda has been researching the history of chocolate in early America for the last four years. She is a member of the Colonial Chocolate Society, a scholarly group of museum professionals, academics, and historians underwritten by the Mars Foundation.

Amanda McGowan is a producer for Boston Public Radio.

Amanda Palmer is a best-selling author, songwriter, mother, feminist, community leader, pianist and ukulele-enthusiast who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre, and art. She has taught at both Wesleyan and Bard Universities, written for The Guardian and The New Statesman and other press outlets of note, and she is a long-time affiliate of the Berkman Klein Institute for Internet and Society at Harvard University.