Interviews
Read first hand accounts from:
Cindy Parry
The Ozarks, rural Missouri
Currently: Clinical Resource Manager for Air Evac Life Team, an emergency helicopter service for rural America with 68 bases.
Previously: Paramedic; nurse (emergency room, post-anesthesia care, and flight); childbirth educator; community activist.
Zaid Hassan
London, England
Currently: Facilitator and writer based in London. Founder of Reos Partners, where he is continuing and extending the theory and practice of working with diverse groups to create systemic change.
Formerly: Worked with Generon Consulting on long term projects which bring together business, civil society, government and communities to innovate within devolving social situations. Worked on projects involving sustainable food supply chains in North America and Europe, child malnutrition in India, and aboriginal relations in Canada.
Anna Bradford
Vienna, Virginia
Currently: Rebuild coordinator, Inova Regional Trauma Center
Formerly: Student, dance teacher, animal-hospital clinician
Donna Lewen, Vicky Stifter, and Jonathan Moore
The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Seattle, Washington
Helen Howell
Seattle, Washington
Currently: Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Seattle University’s School of Law.
Formerly: Legal counsel to United States Senator Patty Murray; special assistant and deputy staff secretary to President Clinton; vice president for public policy at Planned Parenthood Federation of America; deputy chief of staff for Washington State governor Gary Locke.
Cheri Maples
Madison, Wisconsin
Currently: Outgoing Assistant Attorney General for Wisconsin; criminal justice consultant.
Formerly: Head of Probation and Parole for WI; administrator for the Division of Community Corrections; police officer; student; director of the WI Coalition of Domestic Violence; community education specialist for a domestic violence shelter; Federal Neighborhood Housing Project community organizer; advocate for the first deferred prosecution program in Wisconsin for women charged with prostitution.
Deadria Boyland
Seattle, Washington
Currently: Shelter program manager at a domestic violence agency
Previously: Domestic violence advocate
Heather Andersen
Seattle, Washington
Currently: Author of a dissertation on humor and leadership; founder, HumanSource consulting; Named plaintiff for marriage equality lawsuit (Andersen v Washington State, 2006)
Previously: Clinical Director, Hospice of Seattle
Harry Spence
Boston, Massachusetts
Currently: Outgoing Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services.
Formerly: Deputy chancellor for operations for the New York City Public Schools; a governor-appointed receiver for the bankrupt city of Chelsea, Massachusetts; a court-appointed receiver for the Boston Housing Authority.
Polly Halfkenny
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Currently: General Counsel for the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America
Formerly: social worker in the Office for Children in Massachusetts;
antiwar, civil rights, and anti-repression movements activist;
Communist Party member and then Committees of Correspondence for
Democracy and Socialism member
Warren Brown
Washington, D.C.
Currently: Founder and owner of CakeLove Bakery
Formerly: reproductive health educator; attorney for the Department of
Health and Human Services
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