Tim Geller
Tim Geller is Executive Director of the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire (CDCSB), a non-profit development organization that creates affordable housing and economic opportunity for low- and moderate-income households. The CDCSB has leveraged over $16 million in public and private investment for southern Berkshire County and created over sixty affordable housing units. It has over 140 housing units in their development pipeline, and 30,000 square feet of commercial space. Tim first came to the Berkshires in 1984 as a Composition Fellow at Tanglewood. Before joining CDCSB in 2002, he was Portfolio Manager of the Western Massachusetts Enterprise Fund, and was founder and President of the Berkshire Interfaith Community Investment Fund. He has a Master’s Degree in Community Economic Development from the University of Southern New Hampshire, as well as degrees in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Southern Methodist University and Princeton University. Tim serves on the Board of Directors for BerkShares, Inc., the Stockbridge Land Trust, the Great Barrington Land Conservancy, and HousingUs, a tristate affordable housing advocacy and development organization.
Tim Lovett
Tim Lovett is co-founder and agent with Berkshire Property Agents in Great Barrington. According to the Berkshire County Board of Realtors®, Berkshire Property Agents and Tim Lovett held the number one spot for total value of property sales in 2016. He is a resident of Monterey.
Tobias Bernecker
Tobias Bernecker is a Designer at Clark & Green Architecture Design. Born and raised in East Germany with an urge to see the big wide world, Tobias lived, worked, and studied in Israel, France, England and Berlin. He logged way too many miles in the air than he wants to admit, before landing in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2011 where Tobias now lives with his wife and two children. As architectural creations, Tobias is most fascinated by airports, hospitals and parking garages. In his practice Tobias enjoys dedicating his time and talent to public projects. After receiving his Master of Architecture from UMass Amherst in 2009, Tobias worked for several architecture firms and in the building materials industry in Western Massachusetts. Before joining Clark & Green in September of 2021, Tobias worked as project architect on a €25MM project at agn architekten in Halle, Germany.
Tom Hartman
Tom Hartman, AIA, is a principal and owner of C&H Architects in Amherst, Mass., a practice he established with Bruce Coldham in 1999. The firm focuses exclusively on the creation of high performance, environmentally intelligent buildings and communities. Trained at the University of Southern California and at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Tom specializes in construction trailer etiquette and making things happen, and is most often responsible for the preparation of contracts, schedules, construction documentation and site observation. Throughout his career, working on site directly with the trades has been a particularly gratifying facet of his architectural practice. Tom takes pleasure in the human aspect of a project, and always aims to find opportunities for humor while ensuring that tasks are completed to the highest standard. Tom was raised primarily in Mystic, Conn. His father was a submarine captain and his mother co-owned a residential construction company where Tom worked as a laborer and carpenter during summers. He lives in Pelham, Mass., with his wife, daughter, son and dog.
Tony Blair
Tony Blair is an Associate Broker in the Commercial-Industrial Division of Stone House Properties, LLC, licensed in MA and NY. He has also served as a Great Barrington Selectman and Planning Board member. His further experience as a former municipal lawyer and town administrator provides his clients with easy and immediate access to his extensive, in-depth, practical knowledge about permitting, zoning, land-use, building and other issues that confront commercial buyers and sellers.
Trevor Forbes
Trevor M. Forbes is President and Chief Investment Officer of Renaissance Investment Group in Lenox, Mass. He has served as the Chief Investment Officer at Standard Life Wealth, ABN Amro, Julius Baer, and Credit Suisse Private Bank. In the 1990s, as Head of Global Securities for Citibank Global Asset Management, Trevor coordinated the organization’s investment strategy worldwide. He has investment experience across all asset classes and has managed portfolios for pension funds, government agencies, religious and secular foundations as well as private wealth management. Trevor is a board member of Close Encounters of Music, a Berkshires-based chamber music organization, and an affiliate member of the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute (CFA).
Trina Porte
Trina Porte has been reading her poetry, writing, and exhibiting her artwork for more than thirty years. A few favorite venues include Cornelia Street Café, Bluestocking Books, and Brecht Forum in New York, Patrick’s Cabaret in Minneapolis, Bet Gavriel Arts Center in Israel, and many public libraries. She lives in the woods with her wife and makes a fine genoise.
Tristan Alston
Tristan Alston, a summer volunteer at the Berkshire Center for Justice, is a rising sophomore at Swarthmore College, where his focus has been Peace and Conflict Studies, Environmental Studies, and Spanish. He is a peer mentor in the Writing Associates Program and, in addition to his wildlife photography and photojournalism, works as a photographer on campus. He is also a member of the Varsity Track & Field team. He aspires to continue on to a graduate degree program, and is considering law school. Tristan hopes to address matters of environmental justice, structural and racial violence, and to contribute to both domestic and international peace building efforts.
Ursula Setlow Pearson
Ursula Pearson graduated from Smith College in the class of 1932, with a major in French. In 1934, she earned a Masters Degree in Romance Languages from Yale University. She began writing poetry ten years ago, and is the chairperson of her local group of writers, poets and memoirists.
Varoujan Froundjian
Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 from Armenian ancestry. Varoujan Froundjian moved to this country in 1979 and is a citizen of the USA. He is an abstract and experimental filmmaker. Experimental and Non-Narrative genre of filmmaking provides a vast spectrum of creative tools to express social, emotional, psychological and perhaps philosophical viewpoints of the artist without presenting any particular story or a theme. He has been influenced by several artists, such as; Jackson Pollock, Andy WarhoI and digital artists and filmmakers like Bunūel, Stan Brakhage, Norman McLaren. Many of his films have won awards from international film festivals and cultural institutions. Currently he lives in Canaan, Conn., and spends his time studying art, creating films and video installations, and providing audio visual presentations on various subjects such as the history of experimental cinema and Alice in Wonderland.
Vickie Shufton
Vickie Shufton has worked in public education for 35 years--first in Nevada as a teacher of emotionally disabled adolescents, then in Kern county where she trained teachers to work with the same population, and finally, now, in Massachusetts as a school psychologist. In 2001, her post-graduate work focused on student-perpetrated acts of lethal violence, and how to prevent such acts from occurring. This work continues to the present day. I intend to retire a year from now, leaving this critical work to others who have the youth and energy to carry it forward.
Victor Feldman
Victor Feldman studies political science at Brandeis University, and is the features editor of the Brandeis student newspaper, The Justice. He lives in Spencertown, New York.
Virginia Bradley
Virginia Bradley is a contemporary abstract painter who resides in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Alchemy and the performative aspects of painting are the basis of Bradley’s practice. Environmental issues surrounding climate change have also been formative in the development of her work. Virginia has received several fellowships, including the 2023 Martha Boschen Taconic Foundation, 2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, the McKnight Foundation Fellowship, an Arts Midwest NEA Fellowship and two Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships. She has been a fellow at Acme Studios in East London, Zoological Society of London, Yaddo, Sanskriti Kendra, Fundacion Valparaiso, Ragdale and the Virginia Center of Creative Arts. Bradley’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the world. Virginia bases her studio practice in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Previously she was a Professor of Art at the University of Delaware.
W.E.B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Waldorf High School Senior Class
The senior class of the Berkshire Waldorf High School. Top (L-R) Sarah Stosiek,Raphaela Seward-Mayer, Kosta Koufis, Sergei Carty bottom (L-R) Takoda Nordoff, William Churchill The Berkshire Waldorf High School provides an education for adolescents that seeks truth, develops imagination, nurtures growth, fosters responsibility, and honors inner freedom in an atmosphere of academic excellence, artistic fulfillment, openness, and mutual respect.
Wendy Tarlow Kaplan
Wendy Tarlow Kaplan is a graduate of Smith College (B.A.) and Boston University (Master of Fine Arts) and trained at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Harvard Art Museum (formerly the Fogg Art Museum). Wendy has curated over thirty exhibitions and served as Curator at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass.; organized and curated a major Triennial Exhibition at the Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, Mass.; and served as the Curator at the Women’s Studies Research Center of Brandeis University. More recently Wendy organized and curated three major traveling exhibitions of international artists: “Tiger by the Tail", art of women artists of India; “"From the Kilns of Denmark, ceramics of 30 Danish artists; and “Body & Soul", figurative ceramics of 24 international artists addressing social issues. Wendy resides in Lenox and Manhattan.
Werner Georg Kunz-Cho
Werner G. Kunz-Cho is the Vice Chairman of Fareportal, the travel technology company powering seven global travel brands including CheapOair.com and OneTravel.com. Kunz-Cho is responsible for managing the vision and continued growth of Fareportal and its brands. He has over 35 years of experience in the travel industry including serving as the CEO of OneTravel.com prior to its acquisition by Fareportal. Prior to joining Fareportal, he was also Head of Operations at Travac Charters, General Manager North America at Swissair’s charter division Balair/CTA, Director North America at City Bird Airlines and Vice President of Business Development North America at Lufthansa Systems.
William "Smitty" Pignatelli
State Representative Wm. Smitty Pignatelli is a lifelong resident of Lenox, Massachusetts, and a graduate of the Lenox Public Schools. Smitty, as he prefers to be called, was named after his father’s best friend, William Smith, who was killed during World War II. After graduating from Lenox Memorial High School in 1977, Smitty became a licensed Master Electrician and worked in his family’s electrical contracting business for twenty years. Smitty took over the full operation of the business at the time of his father’s retirement in 1991. Smitty left the family business to his brother Scott, in 1998, when he was offered a position as the Business Development Manager for Lee Bank. While at the bank, he attended Babson College School for Financial Studies, graduating in 2001. Longing to serve the people of his beloved Berkshire District, he decided to leave the bank to pursue his dream of public service and run for higher office. Smitty won the seat of State Representative for the 4th Berkshire District and has been proudly representing his constituents for over 12 years. Smitty was first elected to the Lenox Planning Board in 1987 and served on that board for five years. In 1992, he was elected to the Board of Selectmen, and was elected Chairman on four different occasions, serving until May of 2003. Smitty also served from 1995-1999 as a Berkshire County Commissioner including two years as Chairman of the board. Representative Pignatelli serves on the Laurel Lake Preservation Association and previously served six years on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross. With over 37 years of public service experience, Smitty has also been involved in many local associations. He is a member of the Berkshire County Deputy Sheriff’s Association, a past member of the Berkshire Association of Retarded Citizens, the Board of Directors of the Berkshire Visitors Bureau and is a former President of the Lenox Historical Society. As State Representative, Smitty represents twenty communities in Berkshire and Hampden Counties. At the State House, Representative Pignatelli serves on three appointed committees: the Committee of Ways & Means, Committee on Higher Education, and the Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development. He is currently the House Chair of the Cultural Caucus.
William Caligari
William Caligari is a Berkshire native and Sheffield resident who studied interior design at the New York School of Design, worked in the city's design world for eight years and returned to the Berkshires to set up his own design business -- one in a line of businesses owned by the Caligari family since the late 1800s. Along with William Caligari Interior Design, Bill owns Linen, an importer and retailer of linens manufactured from Belgian flax. Bill's work over nearly three decades includes commercial and residential work for customers in the Berkshire region, New England, New York, across the U.S. and abroad. With his particular expertise in spa and resort design, he was the interior designer of record for the Canyon Ranch spas in Lenox and Tuscon, and for other destination resorts. Recently, he completed the design for Berkshire Roots, Pittsfield's first medical marijuana dispensary. His spirited portfolio of residential work includes year-round and vacation homes grand and modest, urban and rural. When he's not transforming the surroundings of clients' homes and workspaces, Bill is a nationally-ranked cycling competitor with more than 20 races completed so far in 2018. His cycling team is aptly named Linen.
William Cruz
William Cruz is a certified enrollment counselor at Community Health Programs, a countywide network of health centers serving 34,000 Berkshire area residents.
William Merelle
William Merelle lived his formative years in the heart of three picturesque provinces of the Pyrénées: Le Béarn, Basque country and the Bigorre, a region whose reputation has been built on its cuisine. Nowhere is the art of the table as diversified and honored as it is there. William attended ”Les Quatre Septembre” culinary school at the age of 14. Upon graduation he worked among the best chefs in Bordeaux, Paris and Provence. When he came to the United States, he and his then-wife Maggie invented a unique style of restaurant. Maggie Merelle's infectious enthusiasm, along with her attention to detail, complemented Williamʼs personal vision of epicurean delight and his dedication to raising the bar on his extraordinary cuisine. “Rouge! Cʼest la couleur dʼamour,” draws people from all over the country. William Merelle is no longer associated with Rouge, but Maggie continues to offer the same high quality.
William P. Densmore
Bill Densmore, a consultant and researcher on the future and sustainability of journalism, is an expert on Internet information technologies and business models with financial-budget experience for conferences, grant-funded university projects, and entrepreneurial businesses. He is a consulting fellow to the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is author of the white paper, “From Paper to Persona.” In a career spanning news writing, journalism, publishing, entrepreneurship, fund-raising and event management, branding and outreach, Densmore has founded and lead two technology companies and a regional newspaper publisher. Amherst, Mass.-basedClickshare Service Corp. provides user registration, authentication, content access control and transaction services to Internet web content sites and publishers. CircLabs Inc. is a development-stage startup incubated as part of Densmore’s Information Valet Project at RJI. It’s testing service concepts for news personalization and customization, including the InfoValet Circulate Discovery Service. He also co-owned and published the Advocate newsweeklies for the Berkshires/southwestern Vermont, from 1983-1992. Densmore he has taught and guest lectured, and has been principal organizer of more than a dozen regional and national conferences and symposia on the future of journalism and the intersections among journalists and librarians, technologists and media-literacy educators. Densmore also serves as director/editor of the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the New England News Forum. He’s a founding member and director of Journalism That Matters, Inc. and also serves on the boards of the New England Newspaper & Press Association and Shires Media Partnership, Inc. He served a three-year term on the board of the Action Coalition for Media Education. The Media Giraffe Project, launched in March, 2005, is an ongoing effort to find and spotlight individuals making sustainable, innovative use of media (old and new) to foster participatory democracy and community. A career journalist, Densmore has been an editor/writer for The Associated Press in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco and for trade publications in business, law, insurance and information-technology in Boston, Chicago and New York. He freelanced for general circulation dailies including The Boston Globe and, while in Chicago, for National Public Radio and worked for public-radio stations in Worcester and Amherst while a college student. He has written for ComputerWorld Magazine. Since 1995, he has been quoted and cited in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications on Internet topics and has lectured on journalism issues at the University of Massachusetts, Williams College, Brandeis University, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the Missouri School of Journalism and at numerous conferences. Densmore has also served as advertising director for a small, group-owned daily, editorial director for a chain of central Massachusetts weeklies; and as interim executive director of the not-for-profit Hancock Shaker Village, a living-history museum. Densmore holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in environmental policy and communications. Densmore Associates provides project and event management services, writing research and market intelligence to companies, universities and individuals concerned with the changing media ecosystem.
William P. Perry
William P. Perry is a composer and producer. Born in Elmira, NY he attended Harvard University and studied music with Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston and Randall Thompson and literature with George Sherburn and Walter Jackson Bate. After a stint in the military, he joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency as a composer, script writer and television producer, working with such entertainment icons as Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason. The next career move, somewhat unexpected, took him to the Museum of Modern Art where he became music director and composed and performed more than two hundred scores for the Museum’s silent film collection. His subsequent PBS television series, “The Silent Years” hosted by Orson Welles and Lillian Gish, won an Emmy Award. Perry is often credited with having played a major role in the revival of interest in classic silent films. Continuing his association with PBS, he created and produced the “Anyone for Tennyson?” poetry series and thereafter produced and scored the Peabody-Award winning Mark Twain Series of six feature films for Great Performances. His stage work has included a musical biography of Mark Twain that ran for ten summers in Elmira and Hartford and a Broadway musical version of “Wind in the Willows” starring Nathan Lane. In recent years Perry, a long-time Berkshires resident, has concentrated on a Naxos series of CDs of his orchestral works.
Winston Smith
Winston Smith is a retired clerk who covers the Global Police State for The Edge.
Zazu Galdos-Shapiro
Currently a resident of the Berkshires, Zazu Galdós-Shapiro grew up traveling between her native Mexico and northern New Jersey, a habit that fostered her love of language and reading books long enough to last a whole plane ride. She is a graduate of Bard College at Simon's Rock, where she studied linguistics and German studies. She works as a book buyer and manager at the local independent bookstore, The Bookloft.
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