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Bright Lights of Brookline Faculty
Liz Walker, host
Jody Adams | Joe Bergantino | Leslie Epstein
Arthur Golden | Cam Kerry | Colette Phillips
Carl Sapers | Elaine Ullian | Dr. Craig van Horne
Liz Walker, host
Jody Adams | Joe Bergantino | Leslie Epstein
Arthur Golden | Cam Kerry | Colette Phillips
Carl Sapers | Elaine Ullian | Dr. Craig van Horne
Journalist
Host of Bright Lights of Brookline 2005
Award-winning journalist Liz Walker is Host and Executive Producer of Sunday with Liz Walker, a half hour newsmagazine airing Sundays at 11 a.m. presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Walker joined the station in April 1980 and went on to anchor the station's evening newscasts for almost 20 years before moving to the dayshift in June 2000 to spend more quality time with her family.
Read more about Liz Walker here.
Chef/Partner - Rialto, Cambridge, MA
Bright Lights Seminar: Cooking Demonstration: Potato Gnocchi and Spring Vegetable Gratin
After deciding on a career in the restaurant business, Jody worked her way through the ranks of Boston's best restaurants, working with Lydia Shire at Seasons restaurant in the famed Bostonian Hotel at Hamersley's Bistro as sous chef and as executive chef at Michela's in Cambridge. While at Michela's, Jody developed her reputation for carefully-researched regional menus that combined New England ingredients with Italian culinary traditions.
In September 1994, Adams opened Rialto with restaurateurs Michela Larson and Karen Haskell, forming the Sapphire Restaurant Group partnership. At Rialto, Jody's focus broadened to include French, Spanish and Eastern Mediterranean cuisine. Four months after the new restaurant's opening, The Boston Globe awarded Rialto four stars, the newspaper's highest rating, proclaiming that, "eating Jody Adams' food at the stunning new Rialto is like stepping into a winter greenhouse just at the moment a spectacular hothouse orchid bursts into bloom, filling the senses."
In addition to running Rialto, Adams published her first cookbook, In the Hands of a Chef: Cooking with Jody Adams of Rialto Restaurant (HarperCollinsPublishers; January 2002). She co-wrote the book with her husband, Ken Rivard. It is a collection of recipes that follows her passions and palate as she cooks for family and friends and encourages cooks to spend time in the kitchen.
Jody Adams and Ken Rivard live in Brookline, MA with their children, Oliver and Roxanne.
Investigative Report, CBS 4, Boston, MA
Bright Lights Seminar: The Future of TV News
Joe Bergantino is the investigative reporter for CBS 4 New's I-Team on Channel 4. His ground-breaking work on Clergy Sexual Abuse, specifically a series of reports that triggered a criminal investigation of James Porter attracted national attention. His most recent work includes a series on wasteful government spending including exposes on Massport and the Massachusetts Country government system.
He has been an investigative reporter for 17 years and has been honored with numerous awards for his work, including live Emmy awards and the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award. Bergantino holds two masters' degrees, one in foreign policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and another in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri.
Bergantino and his wife, Candy Altman, live in Brookline with their daughter Cara.
Author
Bright Lights Seminar #1: A Discussion of Memory and Imagination
Bright Lights Seminar #2: Fiction Writing
Leslie Epstein was born in Los Angeles. His father and uncle were, respectively, Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein, legendary wits and the writers of dozens of films, including Casablanca, for which they received an Academy Award.
Leslie studied at Yale and then attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has published eight previous books of fiction, most notably King of the Jews, which has become a classic of Holocaust literature, Pinto and Sons, Pandaemonium, and two volumes on the adventures of Leib Goldkorn.
Author
Bright Lights Seminar: The Writer's Mind: Chekhov's 'Anyuta'
Arthur Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at Harvard College, where he received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an Masters degree in Japanese history from Columbia University, where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. Following a summer at Beijing University, he worked in Tokyo, and, after returning to the United States, earned a second Masters degree in English from Boston University. Memoirs of a Geisha is his first novel.
Golden lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.
Lawyer
Bright Lights Seminar: OK, What Now?
Cam Kerry is a member in the Litigation Section of the firm's Boston and Washington offices, where his practice focuses on litigation involving regulatory law.
Cam has represented cable industry and other communications clients before the Federal Communications Commission, federal and state courts, state regulatory bodies, and municipalities in litigation under the Federal Communications Act and other laws; rate regulation proceedings; franchising and renewal proceedings; FCC rulemakings and licensing; regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions; counseling regarding regulatory and legal developments; and state common carrier proceedings. He also has represented clients in non-media-related litigation such as commercial, corporate, and antitrust cases.
Cam has been an Adjunct Professor of Telecommunications Law at Suffolk Law School, has published articles on cable television issues in the Federal Communications Law Journal and Television & News Media Law & Finance and edits chapters on franchising and First Amendment issues in the treatise Cable Television Law, Ferris, Lloyd & Casey, (1983). He has litigated and counseled on First Amendment matters including libel defense, civil rights and trademark and copyright infringement issues.
He is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College (1972), and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School (1978).
President & CEO, Colette Phillips Communications, Inc.
Bright Lights Seminar: Marketing and Communications in a Diverse Consumer Marketplace
President and CEO of Colette Phillips Communications, Inc. (CPC), Boston's first successful public relations and marketing communications firm owned by a person of color, Colette Phillips has succeeded by building business alliances that help her clients grow their market share and bottom line among the region's fastest growing consumer groups -- Women, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. Colette and her staff have managed public relations and diversity marketing projects for such distinguished institutions as Fleet Financial Group, Major League Baseball, The Boston Red Sox, State Street Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Listed in Who's Who among Black Americans, Colette has been frequently recognized for her personal and professional accomplishments and was named by Boston Magazine as one of Boston's "Most Powerful Women." Colette has earned awards from Emerson College, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the New England Council, the Patriots' Trail Girl Scout Council, the Publicity Club of Boston, the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, WILD Radio, the YWCA of Boston, the Ad Club Foundation of Greater Boston, Black & White Boston Coming Together and National Council of Negro Women.
In 1990 she earned national recognition for coordinating media relations for Nelson Mandela's historic Boston visit. Her firm has run events featuring such renowned celebrities as Bill Cosby, Roger Moore, Judy Collins, Gloria Steinem, Harry Belafonte, Camelia Anwar Sadat and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
She attended Emerson College in Boston, graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. in Communications and received a Masters Degree in Business Communications.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Bright Lights Seminar: The Degradation of Professional Life In America
Carl M. Sapers is of counsel at the Cambridge law firm of Noble & Wickersham, and a former partner at the law firm of Hill & Barlow for forty years. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor of Studies in Professional Practice in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
He is an expert on the legal aspects of design practice. His clients included the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and more than 50 architecture and engineering firms. Sapers served as acting general counsel to the American Institute of Architects, of which he is an honorary member. He is the author of chapters in several books on legal aspects of the construction process. In 1975, he was awarded the Allied Professions Medal of the AIA. In 1991, he was awarded the Whitney North Seymour Medal of the American Arbitration Association.
Sapers was the vice chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and served two terms as a member of the Council of the Boston Bar Association. He was a member of the board of the American Arbitration Association and of the National Building Museum. Sapers was the 1993-94 president of the American College of Construction Lawyers, and for nine years he was moderator of the Town of Brookline. He received a AB from Harvard College and a JD from Harvard Law School.
President and CEO, Boston Medical Center
Bright Lights Seminar: Health Care in 2005
Elaine Ullian is President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Medical Center, a private, not-for-profit, 550-bed, academic medical center with a community- based focus. Established in July 1996, Boston Medical Center, the country's first full asset merger of two public hospitals with a private academic medical center, is the merged entity of Boston City Hospital, Boston Specialty Rehabilitation Hospital and Boston University Medical Center Hospital. BMC also operates the Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan a Medicaid expansion HMO with over 120,000 members. Boston Medical Center has nearly 5,000 employees, 1,400 physicians and an annual operating budget of $1.4 billion.
Mrs. Ullian had previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston University Medical Center Hospital and President and Chief Executive Officer of Faulkner Hospital, as well as held leadership positions at New England Medical Center Hospital and with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Mrs. Ullian is active in many professional and service organizations. She is Chairperson of the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals. She is one of seven members of the Boston Public Health Commission, and serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Hospital Association. She also serves on the boards of Vertex Pharmaceuticals; Thermo Electron; and, Citizens Bank of Massachusetts. Mrs. Ullian served on the Transition Teams for former Governors Paul Cellucci and William Weld and for Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
Chief of Neurosurgery, Caritas St. Elizabeth Hospital
Bright Lights Seminar: Complexity, The Brain, and a New Surgical Treatment for Parkinson's Disease
Craig van Horne, MD, PhD, has recently been appointed as Chief of Neurosurgery at Caritas St. Elizabeth Hospital. He graduated from Williams College in 1983 and received his Medical and Graduate degree from the University of Colorado in 1992. His thesis work focused on the transplantation of neural tissues for Parkinson's disease. He completed his neurosurgical training at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1998. He was then hired on staff at Brigham and Women's hospital and became the director of the Neurosurgical Movement Disorders program.
Dr. van Horne's clinical focus is directed toward deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease, brain tumors, malformations, and spine disorders. He is the principle investigator on an NIH funded clinical trial investigating the effects of deep brain stimulation on speech in patients with Parkinson's disease. His basic science research is aimed at the development of new strategies for restoring damaged networks within the brain. He is also a member of the New England Complex Systems Institute and has a deep interest in the study of complexity theory and how it applies to the brain, creativity, art and music. In addition to being a dedicated father of two children, he creates music, sculpture, digital photographs, and paints with oils and acrylics.
