Featured Storytellers:

 Jeff Clements serves as CEO of American Promise. He has practiced law for three decades in public service and private practice, and is the author of Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money & Global Corporations. He is also the founder of Whaleback Partners LLC, which provides sustainable financing to businesses in the local agriculture economy. Previously, Jeff has been a partner in a major Boston law firm and served as Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the public law enforcement bureau in the Attorney General’s Office in Massachusetts. Jeff has helped to start and been a board member of many non-profit organizations and businesses.

 Harold Cox is professor at Boston University School of Public Health. Storytelling is his latest passion to go along with camping, knitting, and skydiving. Harold has told stories on “Risk,“ “Stories From the Stage,” and “Riot Theater.”  He was a recent Moth Grandslam and MainStage participant. Harold likes to tells stories about simple and goofy things that have happened in his life. His life is full of simple and goofy things.

 Ryan Hanley is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love’s Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Cambridge, 2017), and Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton, 2019).

Steven Ng is an Architect and Associate Vice President at Northstar Project & Real Estate Services. Steve has served over ten years on Boards and Committees in the Town of Concord and was appointed the role of “Town Crier” during his final elected term as a member of the Select Board.

Tammy Rose is an artist, historian, and award-winning playwright. She runs transcendentalconcord.org, an international online platform for history nerds and those who love the Concord authors. Her upcoming book, The Concord Parade: Past is Present, is coming out in Summer 2026 from Mercer University Press. She is pursuing her PhD in Experience Design at Bentley University.

Rose Saia is a co-founder of Fugitive Stories as well as Executive Director of the Centre Street Food Pantry. She is on the board of directors and head cook at Mt Calvary Community Supper in Acton and is the former Pantry Director for Open Table in Maynard, where combined she has prepared over 10,000 meals. Her storytelling career paused due to the pandemic, but prior to this she was a regular competitor and winner at Moth storyslams and appeared on GBH’s television series “Stories from the Stage” and in the International Institute’s “Suitcase Stories” series. She recently was featured on the Moth Radio Hour with her story “Paint it Black.” She lives in Acton and is trying to keep an empty nest after raising five children in their blended family. It’s a work in process.

Alexandra Sheldon is an artist from Cambridge, MA. She specializes in making painterly collages and teaching mixed media. She is represented by the Bromfield Gallery in Boston.

 Mandy Young is a retired art educator and freelance calligrapher. She is currently a member of Concord Art’s Board of Directors and a MacGyver grandparent.