2002 Fall Newsletter - Harvard University Institute of Politics

Institute of PoliticsFall 2002 FellowsTheresa AmatoStuart ButlerJeffrey DavidowGil GarcettiTheresa Amato is the president of Citizen Works, a Washington, DC-based,Ralph Nader-founded, nonprofit organization that advances justice by strengtheningpublic participation in power. Amato is also the founder and presidentof the Citizen Advocacy Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicatedto building democracy throughout the western suburbs of Chicago.From 1991‒1993, Amato was a litigator at Public Citizen in Washington, DC,a nonprofit, public-interest, health, safety, consumer, and environmentaladvocacy organization. In March 2000, Amato was hired as the nationalcampaign manager for Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential campaign. Her studygroup focuses on mobilizing for social, economic, and political justice.Stuart Butler is Vice-President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studiesat The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. He plans and oversees theFoundation’s research and publications on all domestic issues and is anexpert on health, welfare and Social Security policy. During the ReaganAdministration, he was included in the National Journal’s list of the 150individuals outside government who have the greatest influence on decisionsin Washington. Most recently, Butler has played a prominent role inthe debate over health care and Social Security reform, arguing for solutionsbased on individual choice and market competition. His study groupfocuses on American health care policy.Jeffrey Davidow has been a member of the State Department’s ForeignService since 1969 and has served in numerous overseas assignments and inWashington. He has held four presidential appointments, as Assistant Secretaryof State for the Western Hemisphere (1996‒98) and as Ambassadorto Zambia (1988‒90), Venezuela (1993‒96), and Mexico (1998‒2002). AsAmbassador to Mexico, he was responsible for managing relations with acountry of vital interest to the United States and with which the US sharesnumerous unresolved problems—migration, narcotics, trade disputes, etc.His study group focuses on US-Mexican relations in the 21st century.Gil Garcetti served as the District Attorney for Los Angeles County, the leaderof the country’s largest non-federal prosecutorial agency, from 1992 to2000. In eight years as the District Attorney, an office with more than aquarter million cases filed every year, Mr. Garcetti’s office achieved a 92%conviction rate. In 1972, he helped found the nation’s first prosecutorialagency to have a division devoted to consumer and environmental protec-