New York Democrat, working on various national and statewide campaigns, including those of President Jimmy Carter (1976), President Bill Clinton (1992, 1996), Charles Schumer for the US Senate (1998) and Edward M. Kennedy's re-election campaign (1994). 1996-97, President and current Member of the Advisory Board, The Creative Coalition, an arts advocacy group, New York City. Member of the Board of Directors, People for the American Way, involved in its Hostile Climate campaign since 1996 and writing the foreword to the Hostile Climate publication in 1996 and 1997. Active throughout the US on behalf of campaign finance reform, the environment, arts advocacy, freedom of expression and the achievement of a nuclear-free Long Island. Current projects include raising money for the New York State Democratic Committee. Member of the Advisory Board, STAR Foundation, an alternative energy and anti-nuclear public policy group, Long Island. Member of the Board: Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, SUNY Stony Brook; Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, Long Island.