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Berkshire Team
Magellan, MissMilk Inspector, Office MascotGelli was born in 1996 and takes her duties very seriously. She enjoys dealing with shipping issues, including checking boxes to make sure they're the right size by sitting in them. Top Shadowfax, MrLap Warmer, Office MascotShadow enjoys the great outdoors, and likes going out after dark to prowl. His favorite author is J. R. R. Tolkein. Top Bagg, MarySenior Editorinfo [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com University of Massachusetts at Amherst B.A. English Mary grew up in Philadelphia, studied painting, drawing, and art history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and then defected from city life to the Berkshires. Switching focus to study literature, she earned a BA in English at UMass Amherst, and then settled in the hills above the Pioneer Valley. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, when extensive arts coverage was a priority for the alternative weekly newspaper the Valley Advocate, Mary reviewed exhibitions and installations at major museums all over western Massachusetts. She wrote on dance, theater, and books, but as the paper’s associate editor she also trained interns and handled the routine editorial tasks that helped “put the paper to bed” every Tuesday night. Mary launched her freelance career with work on a Taunton “How To” publication. Since then she has written executive summaries of studies on bilingual education and English-language-immersion programs, published book reviews in the Boston Globe, and edited individual authors on a wide range of projects—from a memoir of life in France during the prewar summer of 1938, for instance, to a study on the intersection between food and art in the Italian Renaissance. With her husband Robert Bagg, a poet and translator of ancient Greek drama, she co-authored the notes and introduction to his volume The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles. Mary’s serendipitous introduction to Berkshire Publishing came about in 2004; she has worked on nearly every volume Berkshire has published since. Top Johnston, EllieProject Coordinatorellie [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com University of North Carolina Asheville B.S. Biology Ellie moved up from the mountains of western North Carolina here to western Massachusetts where she can still find comfort (and recreation) in the Appalachian Mountains. In addition to her work at Berkshire Publishing, Ellie serves as chair of SustainUS: The US Youth Network for Sustainable Development. She began at SustainUS when she was accepted to be part of their youth delegation to the 2009 UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen. As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina Asheville, Ellie found herself in leadership positions across campus working to promote campus sustainability and raise awareness about climate change. Seeing the potential to collaborate with students on other campuses on these issues, she helped found and lead the North Carolina Student Climate Coalition and chaired the steering committee of the Southern Energy Network, a Southeast youth clean energy organization. Ellie has spoken about her experiences and public engagement around climate change before conference audiences, college classes, and community groups. She has researched environmental literacy among US college students and studied the impacts of climate change on insects in Colorado and indigenous communities in Peru. Ellie is fascinated by the convergence of social and ecological systems. She tends to read books that grapple with our understanding of these systems and pathways towards sustainability. Two favorites that come to mind are Daniel Quinn's Ishmael and Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest. When not too preoccupied by our shared global challenges, Ellie enjoys biking, rock climbing, hiking, and traveling to new places near and far. TopKaiser, MarjolijnProject Coordinator - China projectsmar [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com University of Oregon M.A. Modern Chinese Literature Born and raised in the Netherlands, Marjolijn studied Chinese in Leiden, Beijing, and holds an M.A. from the University of Oregon. She finally moved to Boston for love and a career in publishing. As project coordinator for Berkshire’s China Projects, she combines her passion for China and books. Marjolijn's alternative career is being a pastry chef. Besides the food fascination, she loves to read world literature and is obsessed with metafiction. Music was her first love, and it will be her last. She has traveled around the world by train, from Amsterdam to Beijing, and from Eugene to Boston. TopSiever, BillProject Coordinatorbill [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com University of Connecticut B.A. English Bill Siever, a native of Connecticut, arrived in the Berkshires in 2008 after having lived in Northampton, Mass., Portland, Maine, and Yellowstone National Park. He and his wife live up the road from Berkshire Publishing (downhill all the way to work!), so Bill has a very nice commute. Bill enjoys the outdoors in all seasons and enjoys Great Barrington's close proximity to the Appalachian Trail and numerous other places to walk, bike, and look at other people's gardens. He is somewhat technophobic and has been known to black out at the mention of the word “metadata.” His least favorite words in the English language are "proxy server," which always spell disaster. His favorite books include John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. He enjoys attempting to do the New York Times Saturday crossword puzzles. Bill and his wife have enjoyed several long distance hikes in England, which always involve consuming beer at odd hours of the day, eating extraordinarily large breakfasts at 7 o-clock in the morning, and close encounters with livestock. They recently discovered that Scotland has amazing laws regarding camping and vagrancy and plan to return there soon for a long distance backpacking trip. In his spare time Bill is working on a hand-drawn map of the many interesting places to visit within 75 miles or so of his home: public gardens, large trees, long-distance hiking trails, caves, bike paths, scenic roads, mountain vistas, waterfalls, museums, public beaches, cross country ski centers, and local land preserves – the kinds of things that don’t appear on road atlases. TopYoung, TrevorIT Support Servicestrevor [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com British-born Trevor Young has been running his computer consulting company since the early 1980s, providing computer support to Berkshire Publishing since 1997. He developed our original database system, built our NT-based PC network and helped in our choice of software. Trevor continues to program our Intranet-based database system and its web-based extensions. When he is not being such a geek, he plays bass in a rock band. His favorite books include My Early Years by Winston Churchill, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, Flight by Chris Kraft, George Fraser's Flashman series, and anything by John Wyndham. Top Myers, AnnaGraphic Designeranna [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com Western Connecticut State University M.F.A. Illustration Anna Myers has been a Great Barrington native since the age of two (formerly hailing from Baltimore, Maryland). She inherited a love of books and the arts from her musician father and artist mother. Her sister also caught the art bug at an early age. Anna has been a freelance illustrator since 2007, and a web and graphic designer since 2001. Top Christensen, RachelProject Coordinatorrachel [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com University of Vermont B.S. Botany Rachel spent her first few years in London before moving to the Northeast in 1990. She attended college at the University of Vermont, and has been the project coordinator of This Fleeting World, This Is China and This Is Islam. In her spare time she enjoys creating websites, gardening, and reading. She especially enjoys novels, such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Top Christensen, TomAssociate Directortom [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com Grinnell College B.A. Anthropology Thomas Christensen has been working for Berkshire over the last ten years. After graduating with a degree in Anthropology, he managed the production of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, the first English-language work on such a scale in half a century. He is currently Berkshire's representative in China, based in Beijing, while using the miracles of skype to remain in touch with the home office on a day-to-day basis. He enjoys reading old classics, a hobby from when he's lived in smaller Chinese cities and they were all that were available, and watches plenty of Chinese DVD's (of which he has been carefully assured none are pirated versions) in his free time. Top Fredsall, AmyCustomer Service Coordinatoramy [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com . Top McFall, MollyMarketing and Outreach CoordinatorUniversity of Texas at Austin M.A. Music Molly McFall was born in Texas, and earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music at the University of Texas at Austin. After university, she went to England to study singing, intending to stay for 3 months. Her 3 months turned into 25 years, during which time she stopped singing professionally and began to work in libraries at Oxford University. She was able to indulge her bibliophilia by cataloging wonderful and rare antiquarian books and manuscripts. Molly is a lover of languages, speaks German, Italian, and French, makes forays into Portuguese and Spanish, and is now determined to learn Chinese. She moved to the Berkshires in 2006 with her husband and six dogs, and has succumbed to the Berkshire Mountains mania for craftsmanship by becoming a jeweler working in glass and metal. Top
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