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In his over 40 years as an educator, Bernie Schein, author of If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom has “gotten personal” with countless students, bucking the conventional wisdom that education must be impersonal, formal, and objective. In countless talks and workshops, he has shared his views on everything from the shortcomings of the SAT and No Child Left Behind to the need for students to be emotionally open and aware before true learning can take place. Schein was the principal of three different schools in Mississippi and South Carolina before he taught full time at the Paideia School in Atlanta, which he helped to start. The subjects he taught included creative and expository writing, literature, drama, and social studies, where his approach was distinguished by its group dynamics and his unique class government and court system. He has been an educational consultant throughout his career and continues to teach creative writing to both adolescents and adults. He was chosen District Teacher of the Year in the Atlanta, Georgia area in 1978. Schein holds a Master of Education degree from Harvard University, with an emphasis in educational psychology. His stories and essays have been published in Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Weekly, Creative Loafing, and the Mississippi Educational Advance. His previous book (co-authored with his wife, Martha Schein), Open Classrooms in the Middle School, was a featured selection of the Educators’ Book Club. Bernie Schein lives in Beaufort, SC, near Charleston.

Bernie Swain, the founder and Chairman of Washington Speakers Bureau, is today's foremost authority on the lecture industry. [@Swain\_Bernie, BernieSwain.com, & amzn.to/1x0bz8g] Over the past 35 years, Bernie has represented 3 of last 4 US Presidents, the last 4 prime ministers of Great Britain, 5 Secretaries of State and countless world and American leaders. He has also represented numerous business executives, public figures, media leaders, and sports legends. Bernie considers himself among the fortunate few entrepreneurs who has not only started a business but developed it into the industry leader -- on the strength of handshakes. He has learned a great deal about failure, success, and personal leadership along the way. Bernie has captured it all in his pending book, \_What Made Me Who I Am\_, available everywhere in September 2016. Photo Credit: Bernieswain.com

Bert Chen is an associate of Georgia Urology, P.A. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Urology and a member of the American Urological Association. A native of Atlanta, Chen obtained his undergraduate degree from Yale University. He earned his medical degree at Medical College of Georgia, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical school honor society. He completed his general surgery internship and urology residency at the University of Michigan. He has published and presented research in the field of urologic oncology, including prostate cancer and surgical techniques. He has experience in laparoscopy and minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of benign and malignant urologic disease. Hospital affiliations include Dekalb Medical Center, Rockdale Medical Center, and Newton Medical Center. His areas of interests in addition to general urology include stone disease, female urology, and urologic oncology.

Professor Madras is a Professor of Psychobiology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Laboratory of Addiction Neurobiology at McLean Hospital, with a cross-appointment at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Her laboratory focuses on neurobiology, brain imaging, medications development, and prevention. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine Collaborative on the opioid crisis and has received numerous awards for her work. Image: [McLeanHospital.org](https://www.mcleanhospital.org/biography/bertha-madras "mcleanhospital.org")

Bertha Merrill Holt is a former North Carolina state representative.

Beth Daley took the lead as Editor and General Manager at The Conversation in March 2019. Prior to that, Daley covered the environment, science and education at NECIR and Inside Climte. For almost two decades Daley covered the environment for The Boston Globe and won numerous awards for her work including being named a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Beth Decker is where creativity meets accessibility.

Beth manages all aspects of the OutPost’s daily operation and takes care of client scheduling.

As director at the Massachusetts Voter Table, Beth Huang works with over 25 community organizations to increase voter turnout and civic leadership in communities of color and working-class people in Massachusetts. Beth serves on the Steering Committees of Raise Up Massachusetts and the Election Modernization Coalition and convenes MassCounts, a coalition that works with nonprofits to achieve a complete count in the 2020 Census. Prior to joining MVT as the Field Coordinator in 2016, Beth worked at Jobs With Justice as the National Coordinator of the Student Labor Action Project. Beth is a senior trainer with the Midwest Academy. She hails from Wisconsin, where she became politicized through fights for workers' rights and racial justice, and holds a bachelors of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Beth Lambert is the Director of the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration (DER), part of the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game. She oversees a 30-person agency whose mission is to restore and protect rivers, wetlands, and watersheds for the benefit of people and the environment. DER staff work in partnership with communities, landowners, non-profit organizations, and state and federal agencies on projects that restore habitat and help people and nature adapt to climate change. Over the last 15 years, the Division has removed 60 dams in partnership with federal, state, municipal, and NGO organizations. Beth has 20 years of experience with river and watershed restoration in Oregon, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

**Beth Orcutt, Ph.D.** is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, where she leads a team specialized in the study of deep-sea microbial life and the impact of microbial activity on chemical cycles. Recently she has been leading efforts to understand the ecosystem services that microbes provide in some of the deep-sea ecosystems that may be targeted for deep-sea mining and subseafloor carbon sequestration.

Beth is the Director of Transportation for America. She was previously at the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy since 2009. At DOT, Beth managed the TIGER Discretionary Grant program, the Secretary’s livability initiative, the development of the Administration’s surface transportation authorization proposal, and the implementation of MAP-21. Before joining DOT, Beth worked for Sen. Tom Carper (DE) as an advisor for transportation, trade and labor policy, as the policy director for Smart Growth America and as legislative director for environmental policy at the Southern Governors’ Association. She began her career in Washington, DC, in the House of Representatives working as a legislative assistant for Rep. Ron Klink (PA-04) and as legislative director for Rep. Brian Baird (WA-03).

Beth is an experienced program and project manager with experience in the financial, federal government, insurance, and retail industries. She is a creative team leader with a successful track record in project delivery and systems process redesign. Additionally, Beth has experience in executing system development lifecycle activities including requirements gathering, business analysis, solution testing, and end user training.

Beth Teitell is a features writer at the Boston Globe. She aims to capture the zeitgeist of modern culture by writing on the intersection of technology, the economy, sports and politics with everyday life. Her on-air commentaries run on public radio’s popular Marketplace program and she appears regularly on local radio and TV.