POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

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2020 Endorsements

ABOUT THE MWPC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (PAC)

The purpose of the MWPC PAC is to recruit, endorse, and support the candidacy of pro-choice women for local, state, and national offices. The MWPC PAC may endorse and support only those women who support its feminist and other goals (which are reevaluated by the PAC annually). The MWPC PAC consists of women of varied personal and professional backgrounds, experiences, and political affiliations who work with the MWPC staff and the regional committees to endorse, support, and elect qualified women in the MWPC’s goal to achieve gender political parity in the Commonwealth.

PAC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

AMY F. DIAMOND

Amy F. Diamond is a senior executive with extensive knowledge and management experience in three key business sectors – finance, energy development and strategic advisory, both domestic and international. She has worked for more than thirty years within a corporate environment as well as managing her own private business enterprises.

She has a successful track record of identifying early energy market trends, creating an investment vehicle to capture this “first mover” advantage and affording its targeted investors the ability to secure additional investment premium.

Earlier in her career, she held senior positions at Triumph Securities, Lazard Freres and ABC News among others. Ms. Diamond serves on the board of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, is Co-Chairman of the MWPC Political Action Committee and founded the Western Massachusetts MWPC (MWPC Berkshires) in 2017. She has a BA in Psychology from New York University and an MBA in Finance from New York University Graduate School of Business.

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CAITLYN CLARKE

Caitlyn Aerial Clarke works in the Risk Assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC (“PwC”) focusing on delivering internal audit, compliance, and risk management solutions for clients in various sectors (e.g. financial services, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, technology, etc.).

Prior to PwC, Caitlyn spent 7 years in financial services. Caitlyn worked as an Operational Risk Manager with the Enterprise Risk Management team at State Street Global Advisors, where she focused on executing risk consulting projects to help mitigate operational risk and solve business problems. Prior to that, she worked in Internal Audit and was in the Professional Development Program, a high-potential, leadership development and rotational program, at State Street Global Markets. In those roles, Caitlyn analyzed financial statements and consulted on business processes, led analysis and research efforts on prospective clients and competitors, implemented training, tracking, sales pipelines, and marketing materials for various products, as well as managed workstreams which led to successfully integrating a company that had been recently acquired.

Caitlyn additionally has worked for the law firm of Leefe, Gibbs, Sullivan, Dupre, and Aldous, Scholastic Publishing’s International Rights Department, the Children’s Defense Fund, and the LEAD Business Institute at Duke.

As far as community involvement, Caitlyn was a 2017 Emerge Massachusetts Fellow, is a member of the MWPC Political Action Committee, the Victim Rights Law Center’s Shining Star Gala Committee, the Fuqua Minority Advisory Board, the Duke Boston Regional Board, the Philanthropy Connection, a women’s collective giving network, and is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Caitlyn also speaks four languages and has been volunteering with the Louisiana Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership seminar for 14 years as a Junior Counselor, Facilitator, and speaker.

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SAMANTHA KELLY

Samantha is a strategic and results-driven leader who is strongly committed to success in the public sector. She has worked in both government and nonprofits and has years of experience in policy analysis, qualitative and quantitative research, program management, grant writing and coalition building.

Samantha’s long-term goal is comprehensive food systems reform to minimize preventable chronic diseases. She envisions large-scale government investments in programs and policies that prioritize and address social determinants of health. A large portion of this success depends on electing visionary leaders who closely represent the electorate; as a result, Samantha concurrently works to help elect more women to government and elevate them to positions of power. Samantha is a Consultant at Public Consulting Group, a public sector management consulting firm that contracts with state governments to provide technical assistance with streamlining agency operations while maximizing impact.

Previously, as Legislative Director for Massachusetts State Senator Eric Lesser, Samantha oversaw the Senator’s legislative portfolio, led analysis and tracking of the state budget, ran team operations on the Senate floor, and recommended outcomes for bills in Lesser’s primary committee, the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies. Before her time in the Senate, worked as Research Director for the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure in the House. Prior to her start in state government, Samantha was Program Director for the Local Initiative for Food Education at Greensgrow Farms in Philadelphia and a Farmers Market Associate for The Food Trust. She has a BA in Political Science and Anthropology from Columbia University and an MS in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Outside of work, Samantha is a member of the Friedman School’s Executive Council, and Young Professionals Board of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, Vice Chair for the Ward 1 Democrats in Somerville, co-founder of the group Massachusetts Food Policy Innovators, and a 2019 Emerge Massachusetts Fellow. In her spare time, Samantha keeps bees and ferments mead from the honey with her husband Rob.

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