[Njabs-talk] Working For Obama

[Mary Jo Partyka]

I don't know anybody who would be qualified enough but it sounds like a 
great opportunity.

Mary Jo Partyka
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Quintina M. Singleton" <qmsingleton at comcast.net>
To: "New Jersey Association of Blind Students" <njabs-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:05 PM
Subject: [Njabs-talk] Working For Obama


> For Your Information! Great opportunity!
>
> Tina
>
>
>
> In 5 days, the President-Elect will begin in earnest the process of 
> selecting the
>
> people who will staff the next Presidential Administration. The team of 
> people who
>
> serve in the Administration will automatically comprise much of the formal 
> and informal
>
> political leadership of the country for the next two decades. If history 
> is any guide,
>
> the enormity of the challenges of putting together an administration and 
> addressing
>
> the pressing problems of the day will not allow much time for the kinds of 
> outreach
>
> and recruitment that are necessary to find the best talent within 
> underrepresented
>
> communities.
>
> To address this problem, I am happy to announce that I am working with UC 
> Berkeley's
>
> Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity and Diversity 
> (Warren Institute)
>
> on a project to identify a diverse pool of talented candidates for public 
> service
>
> in the next Presidential Administration.
>
> The objective of the "Diversity in Democracy Project" is to develop a list 
> of 300
>
> highly qualified, experienced professionals and provide these names to key 
> officials
>
> to help in the very difficult job of staffing a new Administration. I'm 
> chairing
>
> the advisory board of this project, and working closely with Maria 
> Echaveste, former
>
> Deputy Chief of Staff to President Clinton, to connect our list of diverse 
> candidates
>
> to the official Presidential Transition efforts underway now.
>
> I'm reaching out to you and others who may know talented people who would 
> be interested
>
> in serving the next Administration (yourself included!). We're seeking 
> resumes of
>
> diverse, talented and experienced individuals with an interest in public 
> sector service
>
> and a demonstrated interest in and commitment to issues of social and 
> economic justice.
>
> We are especially seeking people of color, women, LGBTQ individuals, and 
> people with
>
> disabilities, as those are the groups most often overlooked in these kinds 
> of processes.
>
> Please forward or have resumes sent to
>
> talent at Steve
>
> llips.com
>
> If you would like to nominate people and don't have their resumes, please 
> send names,
>
> email addresses and phone numbers to the same address,
>
> talent at Steve
>
> llips.com
>
> and we can follow up with them. Feel free to circulate this message and 
> the instructions
>
> for submittal to your own networks, but please let us know who you are 
> forwarding
>
> to so we can try to avoid duplicative messages.
>
> To be fully considered, resumes must be received no later than November 
> 20, 2008.
>
> We will ensure all resumes get into the Warren Institute process.
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and your help in achieving this 
> critical goal.
>
> If you have any questions, please email me or call (408 ) 540-6073.
>
> In Solidarity and Hope,
>
> Steve Phillips
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