BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20190329T120000Z DTEND:20190329T133000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Government Affairs Breakfast - Senate President Spilka DESCRIPTION:Government Affairs Breakfast Forum with Massachusetts Senate President Karen E. Spilka (D - Ashland). Sponsored by Winter Hill Bank \n\n\n\nBefore being voted in as president by her Senate colleagues\, she served as the Chair of the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways & Means beginning in January 2015. Prior to that\, she served as the Senate Majority Whip (2013-2015)\, Assistant Majority Whip (2012-2013)\, Chair of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies (2009-2012)\, and Chair of the Joint Committee on Children\, Families and Persons with Disabilities (2005-2009)\, a committee she helped originate. She began her legislative career as a State Representative for the Seventh Middlesex district in 2001.\n\nPrior to becoming a legislator\, Senate President Spilka was in private practice as an arbitrator and mediator\, specializing in labor and employment law and community and court mediation. In addition\, she has been a facilitator and fact finder in disputes in the public and private sectors\, as well as a trainer of adult mediation and school-based peer mediation programs\, collaborative-based collective bargaining and conflict resolution strategies. She has also previously worked as a labor and employment attorney on behalf of employees\, unions\, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and the Commonwealth.\n\nSenate President Spilka is a graduate of Northeastern Law School and holds a B.S. in Social Work from Cornell University. She has been married for over thirty five years to Joel S. Loitherstein\, an environmental engineer\, and has one adult step-daughter two adult sons Heather\, Scott and Jake and a rescue dog named Lincoln. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Government Affairs Breakfast Forum with Massachusetts Senate President Karen E. Spilka (D - Ashland). \; Sponsored by Winter Hill Bank \;
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\nBefore being voted in as president by her Senate colleagues\, she served as the Chair of the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways &\; Means beginning in January 2015.  \;Prior to that\, she served as the Senate Majority Whip (2013-2015)\, Assistant Majority Whip (2012-2013)\, Chair of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies (2009-2012)\, and Chair of the Joint Committee on Children\, Families and Persons with Disabilities (2005-2009)\, a committee she helped originate.  \;She began her legislative career as a State Representative for the Seventh Middlesex district in 2001.
\nPrior to becoming a legislator\, Senate President Spilka was in private practice as an arbitrator and mediator\, specializing in labor and employment law and community and court mediation. In addition\, she has been a facilitator and fact finder in disputes in the public and private sectors\, as well as a trainer of adult mediation and school-based peer mediation programs\, collaborative-based collective bargaining and conflict resolution strategies. She has also previously worked as a labor and employment attorney on behalf of employees\, unions\, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and the Commonwealth.
\nSenate President Spilka is a graduate of Northeastern Law School and holds a B.S. in Social Work from Cornell University. She has been married for over thirty five years to Joel S. Loitherstein\, an environmental engineer\, and has one adult step-daughter two adult sons&mdash\;Heather\, Scott and Jake&mdash\;and a rescue dog named Lincoln.
\n \; LOCATION:Holiday Inn 30 Washngton Street Somerville MA 02145 UID:e.3113.1275 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260407T143056Z URL:https://business.somervillechamber.org/events/details/government-affairs-breakfast-senate-president-spilka-1275 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR