Word: eddison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groups are: "The Politics of Community Reinvestment," led by James Carras, founding executive director of the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders; "Words as Hard as Cannonballs: Speechmaking and Political Communication in 'The Information Age,'" led by Martha Eddison, a former speechwriter for Mario Cuomo; "Development, the United Nations and the 21st Century: The Need for a New Development Para-digm," led by former U.S. ambassador and U.N. representative Anne Forrester...
...addition to her work for Cuomo, Eddison also works for "Field of Dreams," a Cambridge group which turns empty lots into gardens...
Following her 25-minute talk, Eddison took questions from audience members...
...kind of like Jimmy Connors' sparring partner. I guess I must be pretty good or else he wouldn't play with me but I can't exactly take credit for his backhand," Eddison said...
After getting her degree in English from Harvard College, Eddison went to work for a corporate communications firm in Cambridge. After working for several years, she says she "took a major life gamble" and wrote to a Cuomo aide...