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Patrick Whelan MD PhD, director Mary Beth Saffo PhD, treasurer Catholic
Democrats of Massachusetts
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Catholic Democrats of Massachusetts
Speaking out on matters
of conscience Patrick Whelan (Director, Catholic Democrats), chair, framing the debate on religion and politics Steffie Woolhander (Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School) on growing healthcare disparities in Massachusetts and across America Charles Glick (Principal, Charles Group Consulting) on the use of religion during the 2004 presidential campaign Mushtaque Mirza (Vice President, Massachusetts Electoral College) on the Patriot Act and our contracting civil liberties Elizabeth Stanley (Assistant Professor, Georgetown University) the connection between "culture of life" and a federal budget that promotes military solutions
Patrick Whelan (Director, Catholic Democrats), chair, on the Republican Catholic Outreach strategy Jarrett Barrios (State Senator, D-Cambridge) summarizing testimony taken around Massachusetts regarding priorities for Democratic voters Richard Parker (Lecturer, Kennedy School of Goverment) on the growing role of religion in American politics Ed Collins (Vice-President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO) discussing the antagonism of government policy toward workers and the changing immigration landscape Victoria Reggie Kennedy (President, Common Sense About Kids and Guns) on legislative indifference to gun violence in the United States Ed Collins is a US Navy veteran and the Executive Vice Present of the Massachusetts AFL/CIO. He is an International Representative for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), and is a Democratic State Committee Member, serving on the Executive, Platform, Charter Amendment, Credentials and JFK Scholarship committees. Charles Glick is principal of Charles Group Consulting (CGC), a government and issues management firm he founded in October 2001. CGC is an outgrowth of his nearly eight years of work as the director of government affairs for the JCRC in Boston, with which he retains a working relationship as their chief lobbyist and government affairs consultant. In the Fall of 2004, Charles served as John Kerry's director of Jewish outreach in South Florida-helping to win a larger percentage of the Jewish vote for Democrats than the national average. He holds a master's degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a master’s in Jewish Communal Service from Brandeis University. Victoria Reggie Kennedy is the founding President of Common Sense about Kids and Guns, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to reduce gun deaths and injuries to children in the United States. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, where she is the chair of the National Advisory Committee and past chair of the Board's Program and Strategic Planning Committee. In May 2004, her OpEd piece on the threatened denial of Communion to Catholic politicians, "The Altar Is Not a Battlefield," was published in the Washington Post. She received a BA, magna cum laude, from Newcomb College in 1976 and a JD, summa cum laude, from the Tulane Law School in 1979. Mushtaque Alikhan Mirza Born in India, of Persian ancestry, to a middle class Muslim family, Mushtaque immigrated to the United States in order to pursue graduate studies in Environmental Engineering. Having made his home in Massachusetts over 30 years ago, Mushtaque participates actively in Massachusetts political, religious and civic leadership. He has participated in numerous campaigns, including Kerry for President, and is the first Muslim to be elected Vice President of the Massachusetts Electoral College (in 2004). Richard Parker is Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow of the Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government. An economist by training, he is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Oxford University. He has worked as an economist for the UNDP, as cofounder of Mother Jones Magazine, and as head of his own consulting firm, serving congressional clients, including Senators Kennedy, Glenn, Cranston, and McGovern, among others. Parker has held Marshall, Rockefeller, Danforth, Goldsmith, and Bank of America Fellowships. The author of numerous books and articles, he is currently teaching a course at the Kennedy School of Government on the subject of "Religion, Politics, and Public Policy." Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanley is Assistant Professor in the M.A. in Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She has served in Bosnia, Germany, Macedonia, Italy and Korea as a US Army military intelligence officer, leaving service with the rank of Captain. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the domestic politics of ending war, and is co-editing a volume on military effectiveness. She is a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Sandia National Laboratories, the US Army Science Board, and the executive board of Women in International Security (WIIS). She holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, a MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management, and a BA from Yale University. Patrick Whelan MD PhD is on the pediatrics faculty at Harvard Medical School and is a pediatric rheumatology specialist at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston. His research focuses on the lymphoid system and the interface between cancer and rheumatic disease. He has been active in Democratic Party politics, helping coordinate activities nationally for the Catholics for Kerry during last year's presidential campaign. Dr. Whelan is currently director of the national organization Catholic Democrats, which seeks to advance the dialog between religious communities and their elected representatives. Steffie Woolhandler MD MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care physician in Cambridge Massachusetts. She is an advocate of national health insurance, and has written extensively on issues of health care justice and health care finance. Her most recent study, which found that half of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are due, at least in part, to medical illness or medical bills was widely publicized and cited during the recent Congressional debates. She is co-founder of Physicians for a National Health program, a group of more than 10,000 U.S. physicians who advocate national health insurance for the United States. The organizers offer special thanks to the following individuals
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