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  • **Ana Vaquerano**, a native of El Salvador, is a long-term resident of Chelsea who has worked tirelessly for the community for over twenty-five years. Ana has worn many hats in her work with Suffolk University Law School; program coordinator, administrative assistant, secretary-receptionist, paralegal and intake worker among other responsibilities. She has been honored for her outstanding client service by the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and also by many other organizations. Her fluent Spanish has made her an invaluable resource for clinical students, colleagues and clients. And she has volunteered for several years to accompany undergraduate students in a program of work and learning in a rural village in El Salvador. Her dedication to public service is an example and an inspiration to her colleagues and the students at Suffolk University Law School. Ana is married and has three children and two grandchildren.
  • Born and educated in India (NID), with an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, Anab founded Superflux in 2009, leading the Consultancy's client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab's self-initiated conceptual projects. She has lead multidisciplinary design, strategy and foresight projects for businesses, think-tanks and research organisations such as Sony, BBC, Nokia, NHS, Design Council, Forum for the Future, Qatar Foundation and Govt. of UAE.
  • Anamarija Frankić is is the founding director of the Green Harbors Project, and the Biomimicry LivingLabs, professor at the University of Zadar, and an adjunct professor at the University of Split, Croatia. She is a Biomimicry, Fulbright, and Sea Grant Knauss fellow. In 2014 she co-founded Biomimicry New England. Her interdisciplinary work is grounded in biology, ecology, limnology and marine science. She has focused on applying science in coastal ecosystems conservation and management nationally and internationally. Professor Frankić helped initiate and develop major conservation projects in Croatia and the Adriatic region funded through the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Bank, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the European Union.
  • Ananda Lee Tan is the Just Transition Campaign Director of the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), a national alliance of 60+ community-based organizations, networks, and movement support groups working together to replace the “dig, burn, dump” economy with local, living solutions that serve the needs of healthy communities and ecosystems. Ananda has been organizing grassroots movements around the world since 1986, building activist coalitions, networks, and alliances for land defense, worker rights, environmental justice, energy democracy, ecological forestry and food sovereignty.
  • Anastacia Marx de Salcedo is the author of Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat (Penguin 2015), which received wide attention in the national and international press. In the past, she's worked as a public health consultant, news magazine publisher, and public policy researcher. She's currently working on a contribution to a British series on provocative issues in food, the title of which will remain nameless.
  • Anastassia Makarieva graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Physics and Mechanics, in 1996 and obtained her PhD in atmospheric physics from St. Petersburg State University in 2000. Since 1996, she has been working in the Theoretical Physics Division of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute investigating the life-environment interactions in the framework of the biotic regulation concept founded by Prof. Victor Gorshkov. In co-authorship with V.G. Gorshkov, Anastassia formulated the concept of the biotic pump of atmospheric moisture highlighting key ecological feedbacks on atmospheric moisture transport (2007) and, in cooperation with an international team of colleagues, demonstrated the existence of life’s metabolic optimum (broadly universal rate of energy consumption across life’s kingdoms) (2008). Combining theoretical work with field observations, Anastassia spent over sixty months doing forest research in the Russian wilderness. Her current research interests focus on deepening the physical understanding of ecosystem feedbacks on the water cycle and moisture transport.
  • Anatol Lieven is Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King's College London, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Lieven, a former senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, previously covered Central Europe for *The Financial Times*; Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia for *The Times* (London), and India as a freelance journalist. He has served as an editor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he also worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC.
  • Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of *Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture*, which began in 1996 as an all-volunteer zine with a circulation of three hundred and is now an internationally distributed quarterly magazine with a circulation of more than fifty thousand. Andi's writing on feminism, popular culture, and politics has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including *Ms.*, *Mother Jones*, *Utne*, *BUST*, *the Washington Post*, *the San Francisco Chronicle*, *the Women's Review of Books*, and *Hues*. Andi speaks on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities around the country, and is a frequent guest on radio talk shows. Along with Bitch co-founder Lisa Jervis, she edited *BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine*. A New Yorker by birth and temperament, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and dog.
  • Andras Borgula, born in Hungary, a veteran of the Israeli army and graduate of the University of Tel Aviv, founder and director of the GOLEM (Hungarian Jewish) Theatre in Budapest, chair of Limmud Hungary and host of his own radio show.
  • Andre Dubus III has worked as a private investigator, corrections counselor and bounty hunter. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous stage plays and three independent films. He is also a general contractor and carpenter. Andre teaches writing at Tufts University and Emerson College in the Boston area and is the author of one story collection, The Cage Keeper and other Stories, and two novels, Bluesman and most recently, House of Sand and Fog (which was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award). Dubus has garnered other distinctions, including a Push Cart Prize and a 1985 National Magazine Award for Fiction. He has also been published in Best American Essays 1994, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times Book Review and numerous literary reviews. Andre Dubus III is the son of the acclaimed and recently deceased writer Andre Dubus.
  • Born of French and Scottish parents, a US citizen since 1988, Teissier-duCros obtained his degree in material sciences from the Advanced Institute for Industrial & Mechanical Materials. Teissier- duCros has worked on issues such as tax policies and innovation with state and local governments and agencies in France, Italy, Belgium, India and Quebec. From 1988 to 1999, he was president of the US southeast chapter of the French Foreign Trade Advisors. He is an adjunct professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Management.
  • On January 18, 2023, Andrea Joy Campbell was sworn in to be the 45th Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pledging to build economic prosperity and stability for all residents, prioritize the mental health and well-being of children, stop cycles of incarceration and violence and ensure the people across the state have access to the AG's Office regardless of their zip code, language or ability.
  • Andrea Asuaje is a producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and co-host of WBUR’s radio series and podcast, Kind World.