Marc Stier 2009 Pennsylvania Faculty Member   Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Marc Stier is the Pennsylvania State Director of Health Care For America Now (HCAN), a nationwide campaign for health care reform. Before joining HCAN, Marc was the Health Care Campaign Manager of SEIU PA State Council.

He is also a member of One Philadelphia and a founder of Neighborhood Networks, a Philadelphia progressive political organization for which he has lead successful campaigns for ethics reform in Philadelphia and for raising the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. Marc was member of the steering committee and a staff member of the Pennsylvania Transit Coalition. He served three terms as President of West Mt. Airy Neighbors.

He has run for City Council at Large and State Representative and worked on many political campaigns as an internet coordinator and field organizer.

Prior to taking his position with SEIU, Marc was an academic for twenty five years. He has a B.A. from Wesleyan University and Ph.D. from Harvard University, both in political science and has taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, City College of New York, UNC Charlotte, and Temple University where he was associate director and internet coordinator of a Great Books Program. Marc is the author of many papers in political philosophy, the history of political thought, and American Politics and is co-editor of Ambiguity in the Western Tradition. He graduated from the CPL Political Leaders Fellowship inaugural class.

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