Co-Chair, Green Party of New York State, 2005 Green Party candidate for Brooklyn Borough President, NY

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Single-Payer Universal Health Care
Local Green Organizing
Immediate Withdrawal from Iraq
Eminent Domain
Community-Driven Development

Bio
Gloria Mattera is co-chair of the Green Party of New York State and was the Green Party candidate for Brooklyn Borough President in 2005 where she qualified for public financing by raising $50,000 in individual donations. She ran for City Council in District 39 in Brooklyn in 2001 and 2003. In 2003, she received 20% of the vote, the best three-way result for a Green in City Council history. Mattera serves on the board of directors of the Green Institute, a forward-looking center for research and policy based on the global values of the Green movement: nonviolence, grassroots democracy, social justice and sustainability.

Mattera has a master's degree in special education and for the past 20 years has worked with children and families as a child life professional in the NYC hospitals. She is a long-time activist in the single payer health care movement and serves on the Executive Board of the NY chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. Mattera is also a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She worked with Justice For Detainees to help many immigrants who were incarcerated and/or deported after 9/11 in Brooklyn without charges. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.

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