Emerge Blog

I have been coming to this place of political candidacy for a very long time.

For so many reasons, 2012 looks to be a year filled with excitement, possibilities, and great potential for myself and for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

As 2011 drew to a close, newspapers, magazines, and blogs scrambled to compile the traditional "year-end" lists, ranking the events and milestones of the previous year.

My holiday season has filled with the usual series of long family dinners, and the long family conversations that accompany them.

America saw its first female vice presidential nominee the year I was born.  I knew Geraldine Ferraro as the name on a campaign button in my dad's collection of political memorabilia

Eagerly sitting in front of my computer anticipating the start of my first blog, I cannot help but marvel at the realization that I AM a participant of Emerge California Class of 2012, and recogniz

Your candidacy begins today . . . with these words on a sheet of paper from Emerge I started my Emerge fellowship!

It was 2 am and as the last guest was leaving, he asked "are you sure that you don't want me to stay with you guys?" They said "No, but thanks and we'll let you know when we hear." It had been a lo

Several weeks ago, while listening to a lecture by one of my favorite contemporary intellectuals, journalist Christopher Hitchens, I was struck by a comment he made regarding the most compelling an