Charlie Baker, NCAA president, former governor of Massachusetts, and co-author of Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done. Barbara Kellerman, fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
John F. Kennedy Library
Carl Sferrazza Anthony, historian and author of Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy. Eileen McNamara, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Boston Globe columnist and Brandeis professor emerita of the practice of journalism.
John F. Kennedy Library
Sharron Wilkins Conrad, professor of history at Tarrant County College and Senior Fellow at Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History. Kellie Carter Jackson, professor of African Studies at Wellesley College.
John F. Kennedy Library
Fintan O'Toole
Boston College - Gasson 100
Leading white shark expert Dr. Greg Skomal and science writer Ret Talbot
New England Aquarium
Rev. Dr. Ted Smith
Boston University School of Theology Community Center
Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College and author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic.
John F. Kennedy Library
Emmanuel Akyeampong is the Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, as well as the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. He joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He received his master's degree at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1989, where he concentrated on English labor history, and his bachelor's degree in History and Religions from the University of Ghana at Legon in 1984. Scott Taylor is Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of International Relations. Dr. Taylor’s research and teaching interests lie in the areas of African politics and political economy, with a particular emphasis on business-state relations, private sector development, governance, and political and economic reform. He is the author of Politics in Southern Africa: Transition and Transformation (Lynne Rienner, 2011)(with Gretchen Bauer); Culture and Customs of Zambia (Greenwood Press, 2006); Business and the State in Southern Africa: The Politics of Economic Reform (Lynne Rienner, 2007); and Globalization and the Cultures of Business in Africa: From Patrimonialism to Profit (Indiana University Press, 2012), as well as of articles in numerous political science and area studies journals.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Kate Brown
Boston College - Gasson 100
Stephen Puleo, Author and Historian
Suffolk University Law School
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