Before joining the Kennedy School in 1998, Anne was the Assistant Dean and Chief Technology Officer at the Sloan School of Management at MIT where she was responsible for systems support and distance-learning initiatives. Drazen was a member of the MIT President’s Council on Educational Technology. She worked at Data General Corporation, Wang Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM in a variety of technical, marketing, and management positions.

She received her BS in mathematics from Syracuse University and her MS in computer science from Ohio State University.

Lesly Adkins-Shellie has been at the Kennedy School of Government since 1993 and with the Case Program since 1997. As the Case Program’s Office Manager, she is responsible for publication production and quality control; handles general administration of the office, and as the Program's Information Technology Specialist, she handles the Program’s web site, computer hardware, software, and staff training. Other positions she has held at the School include coordinator for the Faculty Research Working Paper Series and Faculty Assistant. Previously, she was employed by Women in Business Connection, Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and The Westin William Penn Hotel.

Ms. Adkins-Shellie is an active member of the Kennedy School community having served on numerous working groups and committees including the Dean’s Staff Engagement Initiative. In 2003, as a member of the Faculty and Staff Relations Committee, she was awarded the Dean’s Award for Innovation. She has conducted Internet training seminars for staff and faculty and holds a Master's Certification from Clark University and a BA from Tufts University.

Patricia Garcia-Rios is a film & video writer and producer with fifteen years’ experience in documentaries for PBS. She worked for ten years at WGBH-Boston, developing a broad range of skills in the areas of visual and written storytelling. She has acted as producer and co-producer on the series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (PBS, 2008), They Made America (PBS, 2004), Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS, 2004), and Chicago: City of the Century (PBS, 2003). In 2005 she was nominated for a Writers Guild award for Reconstruction.

Ms. Garcia-Rios was a print journalist in her native Spain.  She began her career in documentaries in the early 1990s at the legendary production company Blackside, Inc. of Eyes on the Prize fame.  Her work on the landmark series Africans in America: America’s Journey through Slavery (PBS, 1998) earned her an Emmy in the category of research. 

Recently, she has acted as writing and story consultant on several documentaries for film and television, among them Our Disappeared (PBS, forthcoming), Traces of the Trade (Sundance Film Festival/POV, 2008), The Borinqueneers (PBS, 2007), Buddy (2005), and Damrell’s Fire (PBS, 2005).

Ms. Garcia-Rios has a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University and a BA in Journalism from Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

Esther Scott is a senior casewriter and editor at the Kennedy School of Government Case Program, and has written cases on a wide variety of issues in public policy and public management. Her case on “Managing a Press ‘Feeding Frenzy’“ was awarded the Hitchner Case Prize. She has also worked as an editor and researcher for the Project on Regulation at the Kennedy School and for a project on Women in Business at the Harvard Business School. Ms. Scott graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Ms. Scott’s published cases include: “Going Against the Grain: A "Conservative" Think Tank in Massachusetts”; “Corruption in La Paz: A Mayor Fights City Hall”; “Ethics in International Research: The Debate over Clinical Trials of AZT to Prevent Mother-to-Infant”; “Reporting in the 'Fog of War”; “The West Nile Virus Outbreak in NYC: On the Trail of a Killer Virus”; “Mayor Anthony Williams and Performance Management in Washington, DC”;“Aung San Suu Kyi: "Icon of Hope" in Burma.”

Pamela Varley has spent the last 25 years as a researcher, writer and editor, focusing on topics of general public interest. In the early 1980s, she worked for three years as a reporter for the Cambridge Chronicle—covering city politics, housing policy, and the public school system—and for an additional year as a Boston freelance writer. Since 1985, she has worked as a casewriter at the Kennedy School of Government (with an 18-month hiatus between 1996 and 1997).

Ms. Varley’s published cases include: “The Urban League Adjusts to a Post-Civil Rights Landscape”; “Tradition Transformation and a Divided Spirit: A 21st Century Quandary for the American Red Cross”; “Command Peformance: County firefighters take charge of the 9/11 Pentagon Emergency”; “The City of Chicago and the 1995 Heat Wave”; “Battling for Rule of Law in Mexico City: Crime, Corruption, and Criminal Justice.”

In 1991, she won the Stephen Ballinger Hitchner Case Prize for the case study, “Jesse Helms v. Harvey Gantt: Race, Culture and Campaign Strategy in the 1990 Senate Battle,” and again in 1993 for the case study “Responding to Disaster: The Story of the Guadalajara Sewer Explosion.” In 1996-1997, Varley directed a major research project for the Investor Responsibility Research Center. As part of that project, she edited a four-part, 594-page book, called The Sweatshop Quandary: Corporate Responsibility on the Global Frontier, which was praised for its clarity and accessibility. Varley received a BA in English Literature from Oberlin College in 1979.