I’m a political activist, teacher and writer who lives in the West Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
I became the Director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, an organization that does strategic policy research and analysis, advocacy and organizing December 2015.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining PBPC I worked as the Grassroots Coordinator of the Allyson Schwartz for Governor campaign; as the Executive Director of Penn ACTION, where I worked to protect funding for education and women\u2019s health care and expand Social Security; the Pennsylvania Director of Health Care for American Now, which led the largest issue advocacy campaign in Pennsylvania history in support of what became the Affordable Care Act; and the Health Care Campaign Manager for SEIU Pennsylvania State Council.<\/p>\n
I was an academic for 25 years before becoming a full-time activist and organizer in 2007. I have a bachelor\u2019s degree from Wesleyan University and a doctorate from Harvard University, both in political science. I taught at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks; City College of New York; the University of North Carolina, Charlotte; and Temple University, where I was the associate director and internet coordinator of the Intellectual Heritage Program.<\/p>\n
I’ve written papers on political philosophy, the history of political thought, American politics, and politics and film. I’m the author of the book Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform: the Health Care for American Now Campaign in Pennsylvania<\/em>, published in 2013. I recently finished two new books, Liberalism and Communitarianism Revisited<\/em> and Civilization and Its Contents: Reflections on Sex and the Culture Wars<\/em>. I’m also the co-editor of Ambiguity in the Western Tradition<\/em>.<\/p>\n I was a political and community activist while an academic as \u00a0a member of One Philadelphia and a founder of Neighborhood Networks, a Philadelphia progressive political organization for which I lead successful campaigns for ethics reform in Philadelphia and for raising the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. I was member of the steering committee and a staff member of the Pennsylvania Transit Coalition which advocated successfully for new transit funding statewide. I also served three terms as President of West Mt. Airy Neighbors, a Philadelphia community organization, where I helped save historic buildings from destruction, block unwanted development, and bring a new supermarket and neighborhood \/ school playground to the community. I ran for City Council at Large in 2007 and State Representative in 2004 and have worked on many political campaigns as an internet coordinator and field organizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a political activist, teacher and writer who lives in the West Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia. I became the Director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, an organization that does strategic policy research and analysis, advocacy and organizing December 2015. Prior to joining PBPC I worked as the Grassroots Coordinator of the Allyson Schwartz for Governor campaign; as the Executive Director of Penn ACTION, where I worked to protect funding for education and women\u2019s health care and expand Social Security; the Pennsylvania Director of Health Care for American Now, which led the largest issue advocacy campaign in Pennsylvania history in support of what became the Affordable Care Act; and the Health Care Campaign Manager for SEIU Pennsylvania State Council. I was an academic for 25 years before becoming a full-time activist and organizer in 2007. I have a bachelor\u2019s degree from Wesleyan University and a doctorate from Harvard\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P35YuU-7n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7757,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/457\/revisions\/7757"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}