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...after holding numerous non-elected positions, Pitkin is now a serious contender in a field of 19 candidates vying for nine City Council seats...
Born in New York, Pitkin graduated from Columbia University with a degree in economics, and then briefly studied and lived in Europe during the 1960s. He currently works as a demographer out of an office in Harvard Square...
Unlike many of his generation who were moved to political activism by the turbulent events in the United States in the ’60s, Pitkin found a different inspiration: the Soviet takeover of the former Czeckoslovakia in 1968, which he witnessed while living in Prague...
...That gave me a very deep appreciation for how important democracy is,” Pitkin says. “Not just in the sense of there being a system of elections, but it [being] a way of life...
...when Pitkin and his wife settled in Cambridge in the early 1970s, he immediately became active in his community...