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This is one of the ways that I keep in touch with fantastic people. From now on, unless you tell me to take you off this list, you'll receive an e-mail from me about once every two weeks. I have about 650 people on this list, and I send them my writings on politics, some of my speeches, essays, short stories, and poetry. I will never be offended if you delete my messages when you are too busy to read them. I pledge to send nothing to this posting that I wouldn’t share with my partners at Haft, Harrison, and Wolfson (www.hhwinc.com) or with Johns Hopkins (where I am obtaining my Masters in Writing). If you are new to this list, here is a description of (some of) the members of this list, because it gives me great pleasure to behave as a conduit between two people who might become friends. If someone below sounds interesting to you, let me know and I’ll connect you. A list like this is, by its nature, a little self centered, so if you are put off in any way just let me know and I'll take you off the list. I promise not to be offended! The best way to reach me is at rwolfson@hhwinc.com. All the warmest and best, Roger Wolfson ____ Just those who have given permission to be listed follow: Howard Welinsky, Senior Vice President, Warner Bros., CA Paul Miller, Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Kristy Schantz, Senior Producer, Crossfire (CNN) Chuck Quigley, President, US Center for Civic Education, Calabasis, CA Carolyn Harris, NASA, NY Robyn Cohen, Julliard, NY Marguerite Arnold, Film Producer Samantha Levine, Reporter, Congressional Quarterly Ellen Gamerman, Reporter, Baltimore Sun Julie Davis, Yale Medical school David Shaywitz, MD/PhD candidate, Harvard Jesse Decker, Lobbyist for MCI Lisa Kinard, White House, Office of National Drug Control Policy Deborah Connelly, Sen. Appropriations Committee Staff for Senator Barabara Mikulski Stephen B. Pershing, J.D., U.S. Dept of Justice, Civil Rights Division (voting rights) Alexander Russo, Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Bingaman Callie Coffman, legislative director, Congressman Dale Kildee Rebbecca Lieberman, writer, children's advocate Hadassah Lieberman, lobbyist Matt Lieberman, English Teacher Karabelle Pizzigatti, Legislative Director, Children's Welfare League Rabbi Shemtov, Lubavitcher Lobbyist, Washington Jerry Farris, Psychologist, New Haven, CT Gabrielle Tenzer, Legislative Assistant to Congressman Frank Malone Jennifer Leach, Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee (Torricelli's Subcommittee) Amy Wolfson, Professor of Psychology, UMASS Amherst Chad Gardner, National Institute of Health Ivor Heyman, international lawyer in Manhattan Barbara Harris, teacher, founder of the National Youth Leadership Council, member of the National Press Club Rebecca Cooper, chief of staff to Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy Stacy Palestrant, US Holocaust Museum Stacy Rosenberg, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Pat Reuss, Washington Director, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund Adam Perlmutter, Queens Assistant District Attorney Marla Grossman, Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee Dr. Harry Conte, Dep't of Infectious Diseases, Yale University John Aravosis, Childrens Defense Fund consultant Dawn Dingwell, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Deutsch Deborah Shane, writer/associate producer/ lawyer, FOX news (NYC) Juliet Eilperin, writer, Washington Post Shelley Senterfit, Womens Rights activist, Georgia Buffy Sheff, Social Worker, Harvard Allan Lopatin, President, Ledge Counsel, legislative drafting outfit and liberal lobbying firm Jodi Grant, J.D. Senate Democratic Leadership Deputy Director Stephen Azia, J.D., health regulatory director, Powell Goldstein Rhonda Lees, J.D., Ass't Director, Women Leader's Online Joseph Firshein, Housing specialist, White House; DC Cece Conte; New York City; lawyer; associate producer, Court TV Andy Bloch,professional gambler (founder, MIT gambling team) Harvard Law. Mark Molli, director of DC Office, US Center for Civic Education. Mike Calabrese, J.D. former exec. dir. of Ralph Nader's congressional watchdog, "Congresswatch," part of Public Citizen. Asuntha Chiang, journalist; District Staff, Sen. Mikulski Cinnamon Rogers, J.D. Legislative Director, Rep. Manton Andrew Glickman, photographer and an atty; Securities Exchange Commission Kimber Colton; J.D. legislative assistant for Rep. Patrick Kennedy. Jeff Colon, chiropractor, NJ Fie K. Budzinsky; (national award winning) high school teacher, CT Baruch Aurbach, Professor of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins Carla Bauer, American Red Cross Julie Hirshfeld; Journalist, Congressional Quarterly, Washington DC Monica Freedman; Publisher/Editor; McGraw Hill, Boston Valerie Hulford, Cap Hill Womens Political Caucus; PR; Fenton Associates, DC Randy Crowell, Minister, North Carolina Victoria Thi Nhu Pham, student; Forest of the Great Wake in North Carolina Jenny Perlman; Washington Office on Latin America Jon Modell; drummer/poet/writer/student, DC Ari, Annie, and Sasha Post (The Post Kids): Ari is 11 years old and a 6th grader at the Gesher Jewish Day School. Annie is 9 years old and a 4th grader at Gesher. Sasha is 6 and entering Gesher. Bonnie Noble; earning PhD in Art History at Northwestern, Chicago. Jennifer Hoult; Children's Advocate, Computer Scientist, Professional Harpist; Manhattan Alex Marks; journalist; MSNBC's Washington bureau on-air commentator. Rose Post; columnist for the Salisbury Post in North Carolina Phil Pedlikin; lobbyist for Viacom, father of brand-new baby Lena. Joanne Fedler; formerly of South Africa, mother of Jesse and Aidan, writer, ex-radical feminist, gypsy, self-described earth babe. Sydney Australia. Tenley Carp, in-house counsel, Wang, Inc. Debbie Daumit, lawyer, Arent Fox, DC Nurith Aizenman; special assignment producer at CNN; DC Emily Wurtz, former Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Bingaman, DC Art Coleman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education, Office for Civil Rights at the Dep't of Ed; adjunct prof. at American's Law School. Bob Blumenfield, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, CA Susan Wolfson, (mom) family law lawyer in New Haven Steven Wolfson (dad) cardiologist in New Haven; Clinical Prof. at Yale; columnist Ellen Wolfson (sister); pupeteer; worker with displaced chidren; San Francisco Lisa and Robin Cohen (cousins) social worker and elementary school teacher (in training) New York Sue and Larry Wartur (aunt and uncle) Writer, Engineer, New York. Molly Stern (cousin) publisher/editor; Penguin Publishing, in New York. Dr. Mounir Bashour Opthalmic Plastic Surgeon, Toronto. Paris Morgan, Stella McCartney Fashion, London Dr. Jon Bloch; MIT's Lincoln Labs; Cambridge MA. Maya Tolstoy; seismologist/ actress/ marine biologist; Columbia Geophysics, New York. RJ Donovan; Trade Promotion Coordination Committee, Commerce Department. Rich Pinto, lobbyist, Powell Tate, New York Susie Post; photographer; National Geographic, all over. Laura Traverse; financial anaylst; Merrin Associates, New York Meghan Fitgerald; teacher; San Francisco Nina Planck, Founder, London Farmers' Markets and author, The Farmers' Market Cookbook (Hodder, March 2001) Lori Dockser; corporate executive; IBM; Stamford, CT Robin Burnosky; art historian/olympics scholar/ costume designer; Manhattan Nadine Gabi-Botero; artist; Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC Earl Gast; economist; US Agency for International Development; Russia David Post; lawyer; economist; professor; accountant; mortgage banker; VP of a division of GMAC; adjunct prof. at American Business School. Bob Fertik, grassroots political operative/ visionary; Women Leaders Online network; Hong Kong Laureen Lazarovichi; reporter; Education Daily. Jill Dougherty, CNN White House Correspondent; Bill Dauster, White House, Deputy Director of the Budget Paul Weech, US Small Business Administration Harriet Trudell, the Feminist Majority David Leiderman, exec. dir., Children's Welfare League; Nancy Zirkin, President, American Association of University Women; Carole Grunberg, Legislative Director for Senator Wyden, Eilleen Sweeney, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Jim Jones, David Kass, Legislative Advisors for Senator John Kerry Gwen Rubenstein, Legal Action Center. Sophia Solgeuro (just finised "Capeman") Actress, Manhattan Tanya Gingerich, (just finished Sam Shepard's "Eyes for Consuela") Actress, Manhattan. Welcome and enjoy! To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Kinship Archives. The current archive is only available to the list members.

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