Kathryn Blume is Co-Founder of the Lysistrata Project, the first worldwide theatrical event for peace. She has toured The Accidental Activist - her critically acclaimed one-woman show about Lysistrata Project - to over 30 cities in the US and Canada, receiving an Austin Critics Table Award nomination. She is an Artistic Associate at Vermont Stage Company in Burlington, where her play Vanya/Vermont - a modern adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya - premiered in the spring of 2005. Kathryn's new solo show, The Boycott, premiered at VSC in January, 2007.
Her Off-Broadway credits include The Seagull, Mirandolina, and The Country Wife. Her Regional theater credits include Two Rooms, She Stoops to Conquer, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Sylvia, Waiting for Godot, A Streetcar Named Desire, Amadeus, June Moon, Antigone, Much Ado About Nothing, The Baby Dance, and Our Country's Good. Her Film credits include Deception, My Mother's Early Lovers, The Apartment, and Maybe It's Me.
In amongst her theatrical activities, Blume has had essays published in the books MoveOn.org's 50 Ways To Love Your Country, Code Pink's Stop the Next War Now, Outcry - American Voices of Conscience Post 9/11, and 365 Ways to Change the World. She has also had essays published in the weekly Seven Days and in Yes Magazine. Blume has worked for organizations such as the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and Forest Watch. She founded Earth on the Air, a nationally-syndicated, award-winning environmental and social justice radio program, and was a company member of Living Voices, touring one-woman shows about the Holocaust and immigration to communities nationwide.
Blume co-founded The Hill Actor's Retreat Center and New Paradigms Personal Coaching Services, and has taught yoga, acting, Shakespeare, stress-reduction, and public speaking in venues across the country.
Kathryn Blume received her BA from Yale with a self-designed degree in environmental studies and theater.
Lynn Book is an innovative educator, internationally recognized performance artist, entrepreneur and creativity specialist who relocated from New York City to Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the fall of 2005 to accept a unique position as Faculty Fellow in Creativity at Wake Forest University.
For over twenty years Book has inspired students, professionals, businesses and institutions in a broad range of settings to create new models of innovation for individuals, workplaces and cultural domains. She has contributed to the development of groundbreaking programs that foster innovations in performance and new media in Chicago: The School of the Art Institute (1985-95), in New York City: The Sidney Kahn Kitchen Summer Institute (2000-05) and in Austria at the Transart Institute, Europe's first low-residency MFA program for new media, where she continues as an associate since it's inception in 2005.
Her 20 year teaching career in higher education has included institutions such as Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, Barnard College and Columbia College in Chicago, among others.
Her performance career has included citations, fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts and MacArthur Foundation funding for the production of a radio drama based upon her original one-woman theater show, Gorgeous Fever.
Lynn Book holds a BFA in sculpture from Memphis College of Art and an MFA in performance art and media studies from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Harry and Kevin Booth are the creators of Booth's Blend compost. Various amendments (hay, straw, sawdust, or wood chips) are added to cow manure to create an ecologically beneficial substance that helps build a foundation for plantings.
Six generations of Booths have run a dairy farm along the Hudson River in New York State. The growth of the dairy business raised concerns for the surroundings, especially the beautiful Hudson River. This led the Booth family to begin experimenting with composting to better manage the animal waste.
Harry and Kevin Booth are the creators of Booth's Blend compost. Various amendments (hay, straw, sawdust, or wood chips) are added to cow manure to create an ecologically beneficial substance that helps build a foundation for plantings.
Six generations of Booths have run a dairy farm along the Hudson River in New York State. The growth of the dairy business raised concerns for the surroundings, especially the beautiful Hudson River. This led the Booth family to begin experimenting with composting to better manage the animal waste.
David Bornstein is the author of "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas". In this book, Bornstein tells the stories of people around the globe who are solving many of the world's most intractable problems. Full of hope and energy, exciting solutions and compelling characters, he shows how a growing wave of "social entrepreneurs" - individuals with initiative, creativity, savvy and determination - are reshaping the world for the better. These individuals - from doctors to lawyers, from engineers to journalists - are successfully demonstrating that one person with a powerful idea and a passionate drive to succeed can bring positive changes to the lives of thousands or even millions.
Bornstein is also the author of "The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank", which chronicles the worldwide growth of the anti-poverty strategy "micro-credit." The Price of a Dream, which drew on ten months of research in villages in Bangladesh, won second prize in the Harry Chapin Media Awards, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein New York Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best business books of 1996.
Bornstein's articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, New York Newsday, Il Mundo (Italy), Defis Sud (Belgium) and other publications. He co-wrote the two-hour PBS documentary series "To Our Credit," which focuses on "micro-credit" programs in five countries.
David Bornstein received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters of Arts from New York University.
Joseph H. Bourdow is the prior President of Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, Inc. Bourdow's career began as a broadcaster and radio station owner, joined Valpak Direct Marketing Systems in 1978 as a sales representative, then became a successful franchisee before joining the franchisor in 1991 and becoming president in 1996. Bourdow has been responsible for the sales development of the franchise network, encompassing more than 200 offices in the United States and Canada. He also serves as executive vice president of Cox Target Media, which acquired Valpak in 1991. He stepped down as president of ValPak at the end of 2009 and will serve as a senior advisor to the company.
Janice Bourque is Senior Vice President and Group Head-Life Sciences for Comerica Bank. Formerly, Ms. Bourque was President/CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MBC) where she led the organization for 12 years. Under her leadership, the MBC membership grew from 80 to over 400 organizations with revenue increasing from $500,000 to over $4.1 million. Ms. Bourque created multiple services, policy initiatives and the Education Foundation (MassBioEd) that focused on science education, workforce training and public awareness. Under Ms. Bourque's tenure, the MassBiotech 2010 was released which provided a blueprint for Massachusetts to remain at the forefront of the biotechnology revolution.
Ms. Bourque has held several previous senior managerial positions, including CFO of Cambridge Medical Technology Corporation, senior public accountant for Coopers & Lybrand Emerging and Middle Market Group, and as a NASA Space Science grant project manager for the first satellite payloads to be repaired by the space shuttle missions.
Ms. Bourque was a member of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's Transition Team. She is currently a Board of Director of the Boston History Collaborative and Chair of the Board of the Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology (WEST). In 2004, she was awarded the Woman of Valor Award by the American Diabetes Association and the 2004 Distinguished Leadership Award by the Huntington Disease Society for her work in public policy and public health. In 2003, Boston Magazine named her one of Boston's 100 most influential women and the Cambridge Chamber Commerce awarded her Business Person of the Year. Ms. Bourque received her MBA degree in finance and accounting and her BS degree in veterinary science from the University of New Hampshire.
Lindsay Boyajian is the Founder/CEO of WeareverYouGo, a resource for travelers to figure out what to wear when they're going abroad. Lindsay Boyajian is pursuing an undergraduate degree at Cornell University.
Adam Boyko is an assistant professor in Biomedical Sciences at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
<p>Bill Bradley was a three-time, All-American basketball player at Princeton University and graduated with honors in 1965 with a degree in American History. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he earned a graduate degree after studying politics, philosophy and economics. Bradley's remarkable tenure at Princeton was the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee's first book, A Sense of Where You Are.</p> <p>Bradley went on to become a star professional basketball player for the New York Knicks from 1967 to 1977. During that time, the Knicks won two National Basketball Association championships in 1970 and 1973. In recognition of his contribution to the sport, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982.</p> <p>In the fall of 1998, his book of basketball-inspired essays, Values of the Game, was published and became a New York Times best-seller. His 1976 book about being a professional basketball player on the road in America, Life on the Run, became a sports classic. In 1977, Bradley was elected to the first of three six-year terms as a U.S. senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 2000.</p>
Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez is the Founder of Jonelle Bradshaw and Associates. Founded in 2002, Jonelle Bradshaw and Associates is an organizational consulting company that diagnoses organizational issues and provides successful and proven solutions.
Jonelle was recruited to work with the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies as a Property and Casualty Underwriter where she managed a 5 million dollar Book of Business underwriting for many Fortune 500 Companies. In 1999 she left Chubb and partnered with 2 business associates to create Insite Consulting, a management consulting company for small to medium sized businesses.
Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez graduated from Cornell University College of Human Ecology with a Bachelor of Science in Human Service Studies concentrating in Social Policy and Community Development. She received her Masters in Arts in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University Teachers College.
Erica Brandler has been involved with the Ernest & Julio Gallo Company for the past 11 years.
Erica Bradler recieved her undergraduate degree from Cornell University.