"I started working at MASSPIRG over 25 years ago. The very first thing
I did with MASSPIRG was canvass on a toxics right to know campaign,
when the canvass here was brand new. Canvassing completely transformed
my view of what was possible---both personally and politically. I
didn’t realize I had the courage and tenacity to go door to door, in
all different kinds of neighborhoods, to invite and inspire people to
take action, until I started canvassing. And I don’t think any of us
realized the political force that canvassing could create, but we found
out very quickly as we started winning in the Legislature and on the
ballot as a result of the citizen base we established through the
canvass. To this day, those skills and those political lessons are the
fundamentals of my activism." Janet Domenitz
Janet S. Domenitz has been Executive Director of MASSPIRG since 1989. She is responsible for coordinating policy development, research and legislative advocacy for the largest public interest organization in Massachusetts. She serves on the board of Massachusetts Common Cause and is a former member of the national governing board of Common Cause. Janet is also a board representative and executive committee member of the Consumer Federation of America, sits on the advisory board of Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing, and was a founding member of Earth Day Greater Boston. She joined staff in 1980 after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University. E-mail Janet.
