I worked with the Shan/Dai people on building democracy and reforming the Burmese budget process in anticipation of the 2015 national elections.

Reforestation and its financing

Consultant to the Iraq national Parliament on budget transparency and trainer of candidates for provincial elections.

• Twice wrote and led successful efforts to increase the minimum wage• Three times led successful efforts to raise wages for human service workers• Increased the earned income tax credit for low wage workers• Led the effort to restore the capital gains tax• Banned the sale of mercury thermometers• Author of the Energy, Climate and Economic Security Act (2007)• Founder of the Working Family Agenda, an “inside-outside” coalition of legislators and NGOs advocating for the needs of working families.• Named “Legislator of the Year” by the Environmental League of Massachusetts (2002), Massachusetts Human Services Providers Council (2004), Boston Fair Housing Center (2006), Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers (2006), and Association of Retarded Citizens (2007).

“Health Care Policy and Politics”, Boston University Graduate School of Public Health, winter semester 2006. Used eight different models for explaining and understanding health care policy and politics with a focus on Massachusetts’ landmark health care finance law.