A Policy Forum Hosted by the Massachusetts Democratic Party Public Policy Committee
March 10th, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Framingham State University
Dwight Performing Arts Center
100 State Street, Framingham
To RSVP, please email pol...@massdems.org or call 617-939=0800
Panelists (with still more to come) will include: -
Barry Bluestone is the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, founding Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and the founding Dean of the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. Mr. Bluestone has worked extensively in the field of Political Economics and local economic development. Prior to working at Northeastern, Mr. Bluestone spent 12 years as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, as well as has taught economics at Boston College, where he served as director of the University’s Social Welfare Research Institute position. Through his research, Bluestone has become a leading figure in the field of political economy focusing his publications in the area of income distribution, business and industrial policy, labor-management relations, higher education finance, and urban and regional economic development.
- Jay Gonzales serves as Secretary of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance for the Patrick Administration as well as chairs the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority Board. Some of Gonzales’s accomplishments since his appointment include successfully managing the Commonwealth’s budget despite the economic downturn, as well as his work with municipal health reform, transportation reform, and pension reform.
- Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of Law and Public Policy at Northeastern specializing in urban economic development, urban sustainability planning, workforce development, green economic development. Fitzgerald has authored the book Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development which examines how cities in the United States as well as Western European cities are responding to issues of global warming, energy dependency, and the potential for green economic development.
- Steven Tolman is the president of AFL-CIO and was elected into office on October 6, 2011. Prior to this, Tolman has served as an American labor union leader, as well as an state legislator representing the 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex district from 1999-2011 in the State Senate, and in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1994-1998.
- Jim Roosevelt has served as the President and CEO of the Tufts Health Plan since 2005, and has been involved in Tufts Health Plan since 1999 when he was hired as senior vice president and general counsel. In addition, Mr. Roosevelt serves as the co-chair of the Rules and By-laws Committee of the Democratic National Committee, and has served as chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party.
The March 10 Public Policy Forum at Framingham State will post both video and print summaries of the discussions on a web site after the event. Attentance at the event will be beneficial, but apparently a record will be available.
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