*Alan Khazei is running for U.S State Senate. Along with him, Rep. Mike Capuano, Attorney General Martha Coakley, Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca are other candidates for the position..
* Alan Khazei co-founded City Year in 1988 and served as its CEO until 2006. Alan left City Year in 2006 after 19 years and is now the Founder and CEO of "Be the Change", an organization committed to building broad-based non-partisan citizen support for systemic solutions to our nation's problems that leverage the experience of social entrepreneurs, civic and community leaders, and national service alumni.Mr. Khazei has received numerous honors for his leadership in the nonprofit sector - in 2006, U.S. News & World Report recognized Mr. Khazei and Michael Brown as among America's Best Leaders, and the two leaders of City Year have also received the Reebok Human Rights Award and the Jefferson Award for Public Service. Mr. Khazei currently serves on the Board of Directors of Citizen Schools, Harvard Alumni Association, New Profit, Inc., Share Our Strength, and on the Advisory Board of America's Promise, the Partnership for Public Service, and the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. An honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Khazei currently lives in Jamaica Plain, MA with his wife and daughter.
*Alan came to our school, American International College to advertise and express what he would do to help our community out. His main concern for us was health care. He stated that "health care is a personal issue."
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