A. J. Kohlhepp
A.J. Kohlhepp teaches and coaches at Berkshire School. He is currently working on a history of urban squash in America.
Aaron Fernando
Aaron Fernando is the Development and Communications Director at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. He is also a freelance writer focusing on grassroots movements, economic history, and monetary reform and a regular contributor to Shareable; Green Living Magazine in Scottsdale, Arizona; and Lanka Monthly Digest (LMD) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Abigail Boyd and Lily DeMovellan
Abbey Boyd is an upcoming junior and Lily DeMovellan is an upcoming sophomore both at Monument Mountain Regional High School. Abbey lives in West Stockbridge and Lily lives in Stockbridge. They have grown up in the Berkshires and together have loved being able to help the community.
Adam Hinds
Adam Hinds is a candidate for state Senate in the Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin & Hampden district. He is currently the Executive Director of the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition and previously started an organization that works with at-risk youth in Pittsfield. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Adam spent nearly ten years working on the Middle East for the United Nations. Previously Adam worked for former U.S. Congressman John Olver and then U.S. Senator John Kerry. For more information visit adamhinds.org.
Adam Zieminski
A graduate of Monument Mountain Regional High School, Chef Adam Zieminski earned a BA in Culinary Arts from Johnson and Wales University in Providence, RI. He interned at the Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales, and apprenticed under Chef Michel Bourdin at the Connaught Hotel (**Michelin) in London. Returning to the U.S., he worked at Gourmet Catering in Boston, Sweet Peas & Petunias in Great Barrington, Bistro Zinc in Lenox, from 2003 to 2006 as Chef de Partie at Wheatleigh in Lenox. In 2006, he started Café Adam in Great Barrington. Chef Adam has been chosen by a jury of his peers to be listed in Best Chefs America in every year since its inception in 2013. Café Adam has been recommended by Fodor's, Yankee Magazine and the Boston Globe. From 2009 to 2013, Adam was the food contributor to Homestyle Magazine. Since 2014, he sits on the Board of Trustees of Berkshire Grown. In the fall of 2015, Chef Adam was invited, for the third time in his 20-year culinary career, to “perform” at the James Beard House in New York City.
Aimée Michel
Aimée K. Michel is Associate Professor of Theater at Bard College at Simon's Rock. As a free lance director she has directed at Capital Repertory Theater, Berkshire Theater Festival, The Hangar Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville and Williamstown Theater Festival as well as serving as Artistic Director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival for more than 10 years.
Alan Chartock
Alan Chartock is the president and chief executive officer of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, a National Public Radio affiliate, a position he has held since 1981. He was professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz and was a professor emeritus of communications at the State University of New York; and executive publisher and project director for the Legislative Gazette, a weekly newspaper staffed by college intern reporters covering New York state government.
Albert Stern
Albert Stern is the editor of the Berkshire Jewish Voice. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Forward, Salon, Nerve, and the Berkshire Eagle, and on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.
Alex Bloomstein
Alex Bloomstein began dancing in 1977. He studied ballet, modern, composition and choreography with many teachers over the years. Alex performed his choreography, as well as the choreography of others, at numerous venues, including the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts) in New York City. Alex has taught ballet technique and pointe, modern technique, composition and choreography, improvisation, social dancing and movement for actors in a wide variety of settings, and he still regularly teaches. From 2006 to 2021, Alex was the Artistic Director of Ballet Arts Studio, a conservatory-level ballet and dance school in Beacon, New York. Between 1986 and 1988, Alex wrote dance reviews for The Berkshire Eagle, The North Adams Transcript, and The Schenectady Gazette. Alex is also a lawyer who practices in Hillsdale, New York.
Alice Horrigan
A journalist in New Milford, Connecticut, in the foothills of the Berkshires, Alice focuses on technology and society. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, E–The Environmental Magazine, the Fairfield County Advocate, and the Pasadena Weekly, where she was a staff writer. For the New York Journal of Books, she reviewed several titles on artificial intelligence, Meta, and the digital economy. She previously worked in communications for technology companies including IBM. Alice holds a master’s degree in sociology from UCLA and is currently completing a health and wellness coaching practicum with the Mayo Clinic.
Alice Maggio
Alice Maggio is a member of the Sheffield Contra Dance Committee and the board of trustees of the Berkshire Children's Chorus. She was the former director of programs at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and former executive director of BerkShares. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in planning and policy at Tufts University.
Alison Larkin
Alison Larkin is a comedian, award-winning audiobook narrator, producer, actress and the bestselling author of “The English American,” an autobiographical novel which sprang from her first solo show about an adopted English woman who finds her birth mother in the U.S. As an actress she has appeared on Broadway with the Royal National Theatre and Off-Broadway with the Royal Shakespeare Company. As a stand-up comic, she appeared regularly at The Comic Strip in NY and The Comedy Store in L.A. Since moving to the Berkshires to raise her two children, she has narrated over two hundred and fifty audiobooks, including the “Complete Novels of Jane Austen,“ currently the #1 best-selling Austen audiobook in the world. Her audiobook company Alison Larkin Presents, based in Stockbridge, has won 15 AudioFile Earphones awards for excellence. Her new autobiographical one woman show, “Grief... A Comedy,” will embark on a world tour in 2024, starting at the Edinburgh Fringe. She has just finished writing a book of the same name. For more information visit www.alisonlarkin.com.
Alison Mengel
Alison Mengel is the program director for Berkshire Children and Families’ Healing Homes Foster Care program. She has helped hundreds of families grow through foster care and adoption.
Allen Harris
Allen Harris is the founder, CEO and CIO of Berkshire Money Management based in Dalton, Massachusetts. He is a Certified Exit Planner, Certified Value Builder and Certified Business Valuation Specialist, and specializes in working with business owners intending to accelerate their growth and/or transition. Harris is also the author of 'Build It, Sell It, Profit: Taking Care of Business Today to Get Top Dollar When You Retire,' publishes the Berkshire Business Confidence Index, and hosts the BMM Business Roundtable. He built and sold his previous business, the Navigator Newsletters Group, a financial publication with 16,000 paid subscribers (one of the five largest of its era). Beyond his professional work, Harris is passionate about the well-being of animals. He is an avid supporter of spay and neuter efforts and animal rescue. Additionally, he is a strong advocate for both economic revitalization and the arts in the Berkshires, including First Fridays Artswalk, Shakespeare in the Park, Alchemy Initiative, Tanglewood, Jacob’s Pillow and other nonprofit organizations.
Amanda Giracca
Amanda Giracca has written for various publications, including Orion Magazine, Sierra online, Aeon, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others, and her work has been selected as "notable" in the Best American series. She is the Grants & Communications Coordinator for Literacy Network.
Amanda Hamilton
Herder of dogs and cats, grower of vegetables: Recovering academic: PhD University of Chicago, 2011; resident of Tyringham countryside where she battles weeds and produces snarky political illustrations; student of the great Steve Brodner at SVA. Grew up in England; 54 years old; pronouns she / her.
Amber Chand
Amber Chand’s mission to inspire, support and encourage others to live from a place of enlivened authenticity has led her to her work as a performer, author, visionary life/business coach, and global entrepreneur. Through her signature coaching program, “The Hero/Heroine’s Journey: Creating Your Brave, New Story,” she works with individuals who are going through a time of deep transition. Through her Global Journeys initiative, she offers a guided journey for women to the foothills of the Himalayas and India. Amber’s work has been recognized in a variety of media including Marie Claire, Kosmos, Oprah and Inc. Magazine. She lives in Great Barrington.
Andrew D. Blechman
Andrew Blechman is a former Great Barrington selectman and member of the Finance Committee. He is the author of two nationally reviewed books for Grove Atlantic, and has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian magazine, The Atlantic, among other publications. His pup, Gingersnap, a wolverine-honey badger mix, is perfect in every way.
Andrew Flint
Andrew Flint has contributed as much writing to humor sites as he has to news publications. He began tagging along with his father, Charles, to antique shows, auctions, antique bottle digs, and historical society meetings as soon as he learned how to talk, which is most of what he's done since. He lives in Stockbridge, in the shadow of the former Shaggy Dog Studios.
Andrew Joffe
ANDREW JOFFE is an actor director, playwright, radio producer and award-winning poet and opera librettist. He has written and produced two radio series on NPR: Visit New Grimston, Anyway and Jazzplay. He has directed many plays and world premiere operas, and has appeared on stages throughout the region.
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster AIA, CPHC is an architect and founder of Graphite Studio located in Amherst, Mass., focusing on residential architecture in Western New England. This project’s biggest challenge was preserving the charm and character of a two-hundred-year-old building while delivering 21st century performance and comfort. Graphite Studio works on projects all over Massachusetts and western New England, including the Berkshires! Andrew previously wrote for The Edge from his position as Designer and Project Manager at Coldham & Hartman Architects in Amherst.
Ann St. Clair
Ann St. Clair was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in New York City where she constantly wore black and read Sartre on the subway. Her father did some sort of ill-defined government work, and from an early age, she was surrounded by people and ideas from around the world. As a teenager, she tripped into a summer job as receptionist at British Information Service in the RCA Building in New York, where she became fascinated by the public relations operation of a government in a foreign country. She enjoyed working in daytime TV where her most stirring line was: “The doctor will see you now.” Ann graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, where she ate, breathed and slept English literature and history, and took a year-long Bible course that changed her life. She has finished writing several books, including a coming of age novel called Marta Byrd, and she is working on a clutch of tales featuring eccentric characters in Israeli Secret Service. She likes living in the Berkshires, where she enjoys theatre and intrigue, and she loves to laugh.
Anne Dwyer
A foodie to the soul. I've been destination eating since I was seventeen (I won't tell how long that journey has been). It has taken me as far as Australia and as close as my best friend's mother's kitchen. I have a degree in Pastry Arts and operated my own bakery for more than a decade. I do love my sugar, but have my chops from kitchens in Cambridge, New York, Providence and right here in the tri-county area. Please enjoy my thoughts and may them inspire you to order a dish you've never tasted.
Anthony Ehrlich
Anthony Ehrlich lived in Pittsfield, Dalton, Lenox, and Lanesboro and worked for GE Ordnance for twenty-two years before transferring to Florida. He met and wooed his wife, then a rosy-cheeked German girl, on South Mountain. Their four children were all born in Pittsfield hospitals and learned downhill skiing there. Two of them have since moved back with their families after living all over the U.S. He ushered at Tanglewood, was a member of the Town Players of Pittsfield, and was on the Planning Board in Lanesboro. He has many friends as well as family there, maintains strong ties to the County, and visits often, most recently seeing the Winter Lights at Naumkeag and Laurie Anderson’s virtual reality exhibition at Mass MoCA. He currently works as a farm hand on another daughter’s small, commercial, organic farm in Barberville, Florida. He enjoys photography, the arts in general, and is an active environmentalist.
Anthony Scibelli
Anthony Scibelli joined Berkshire Health Systems in September 2024 as System Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Fairview Hospital. He most recently served as Vice President of Operations and Chief Administrative Officer at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass., and previously held senior leadership positions with Utica, N.Y.-based Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare. Scibelli has a Master of Business Administration from SUNY University at Albany, a Master of Science in Training and Development from Lesley University, Cambridge, Mass., and a bachelor’s degree from Worcester State University. He has been an adjunct instructor at Elms College, Chicopee, Mass., and has served as a volunteer and board member for several community organizations.
Art Ames
Art Ames was a longtime Berkshire County resident and the general manager of Berkshire Co-op Market, a natural foods cooperative in Great Barrington. An avid fan of all things cultural, Art also writes music reviews and articles for Elmore Magazine, and was a former music show host on local radio station WBCR as well as WXOJ in Northampton. An advocate for community engagement, civility, and good old-fashioned common sense, he still manages to inexplicably be a slightly fanatical Red Sox fan, and for better or worse, has an opinion on just about everything.
Barbara and Leonard Quart
Barbara Quart was a professor of English at the College of Staten Island for 35 years. She also wrote "Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema," and over a hundred articles and reviews for magazines like Ms, Film Quarterly, the Nation, and Cineaste. Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema — CUNY and COSI; Contributing Editor, Cineaste; Columnist for Berkshire Eagle; and co-author of American Film and Society Since 1945 —4th Edition (Praeger).
Barbara Bonner
Barbara Bonner held leadership positions in three New York City museums before to moving to the Berkshires and serving as Vice-President of Bennington College and Kripalu. She has also served on ten nonprofit boards and consulted and spoken widely in the field. The founder of The Denise Kaley Fund for Berkshire County Women with Cancer, Barbara is the author of three books: Inspiring Generosity, Inspiring Courage and the forthcoming Inspiring Forgiveness (March 2020).
Barbara Dean
Barbara Dean is a singer/songwriter, performer, and poet. She and her husband Graham have lived in Great Barrington for 35 years, and have raised 4 children here. She and Graham have also been folk djs for 14 years, first on the Great Barrington Community Radio station WBCR, and now on WRPI in Troy, NY. She loves writing and performing songs with her husband, playing bass while he plays guitar. She is a member of the Du Bois Educational Series Committee, committed to presenting programs designed to heighten awareness of racism, modern slavery, gender and economic inequality, and other injustices, but also to finding solutions and healing, in the spirit of W. E. B. Du Bois.
Barbara Greenbaum
Barbara Greenbaum is a retired psychotherapist living in Lenox. Since moving to the Berkshires full time she has been active in OLLI teaching classes called, "Conversations With...". For several years she and David Scribner co- hosted a TV program, "The Way We Are," where they interviewed people in the arts and politics in the Berkshires.
Barbara K. Quart
Barbara Quart was a professor of English at the College of Staten Island for 35 years. She also wrote "Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema," and over a hundred articles and reviews for magazines like Ms, Film Quarterly, the Nation, and Cineaste.
Barbara Kellogg and Pam Youngquist
Barbara Kellogg and Pam Youngquist are members of Citizens Concerned About GB Horse Racing. We are citizen’s rights advocates, animal advocates, safety advocates, environmental advocates, and anti-addiction advocates. Like the other countless concerned citizens in Great Barrington, the Berkshires and the state of Massachusetts, we felt it our moral duty to advocate on these issues as they each became apparent in the proposal for commercial horse racing at the GB fairgrounds. All of us, the concerned citizens, have worked tirelessly together for months to thoroughly research and consult about the multi layered proposal of horse racing, culminating in GB voters declaring their demand to vote yes on the Home Rule Petition regarding the question of horse racing in GB.
Barbara Wind
Barbara Wind is a poet, playwright and journalist, who lives in Stockbridge and South Carolina. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, and other newspapers, as well as literary and academic journals.
Barbara Zheutlin
Barbara Zheutlin moved from Los Angeles to Great Barrington in 1995. She is the former executive director of Berkshire Grown; she helped create Share the Bounty to strengthen local farming and provide fresh food to food pantries. She coauthored The Kindergarten Lessons We Never Learned and contributed to Enduring Inequities, part of ECHOES, Early Childhood History, Organizing, Ethos, and Strategy Project, believing that the world would be a better place if we prioritized caring for human beings from birth. She is the coauthor of Creative Differences: Profiles of Hollywood Dissidents (South End Press 1979). She tutors ESL as part of Literacy Network, and volunteers for the Southern Berkshire Ambulance Service and The Triplex Cinema.
Barney Edmonds
Barney Edmonds lives in Stockbridge and serves on the town’s Housing Authority. He’s made documentary and industrial films and written personal essays, comedy sketches and way too many speeches. Most Thursday nights you’ll find him hunkered down at his weekly poker game that began sometime in the dark ages. A native of Northampton, he grew up within a half mile of Obama and Deval Patrick in Hyde Park and lived in brownstone Brooklyn for a very long time before moving to the beautiful Berkshires.
Ben Hillman
Ben Hillman is a film maker, designer, author and illustrator who loves subatomic particles and Betty Boop. After obsessing for years about the evils of mass manipulation, Ben decided to do it himself by forming Ben Hillman & Company – realizing his boyhood dream of messing with the minds of the general public (as well as making films and writing and illustrating books). Ben lives in the beautiful Berkshire hills of Massachusetts with his wife Amy and daughter Maizy. He is a member of the Sheffield Tree Project and the Antarctican Society.
