NH Book Festival welcomes two new board members
This spring, NHBF welcomed two new members to its Board of Directors. Both bring a wealth of experience, an abiding interest in literature, and significant connections in their New Hampshire communities.
BOB BUDERI
A native of California, Bob Buderi received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis in 1977. In 1978, he earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Arizona. He was later a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, as well as a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies.
A longtime journalist and editor, Buderi served as technology editor of Business Week and editor-in-chief of MIT's Technology Review. In 2007, he founded Xconomy, a national business and technology news and media website, for which he served as CEO and editor-in-chief. He then served as chairman of LeadingBiotech, another Informa company, until October 2020. He also served as president of the nonprofit World Frontiers Forum.
Buderi has written five books of nonfiction, including Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub (2022, MIT Press). He is currently working on a mystery book. He lives with his wife in NH’s Lakes Region.
MICHAEL HALEY GOLDMAN
Michael Haley Goldman is the executive director of NH Humanities. He holds a masters in computing and education from Columbia University Teachers College in New York City and a BA in philosophy from Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
Prior to arriving in New Hampshire, Haley Goldman was director of Future Projects at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where he led a digital innovation team that explored the impact of emerging technologies on history education, informal learning, and digital humanities. At the USHMM, he also served as the director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors, and the director of Global Classroom and Evaluation.
Haley Goldman has served as a grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute for Museum and Library Services; as well as on many advisory groups, including the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History; the Digital Advisory Group for the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project; the Advisory Committee for Courtroom 600: An Educational Virtual Reality Encounter with the History and Legacies of the Nuremberg Trials at the University of Connecticut Greenhouse Labs.
Welcome, Michael and Bob!