Member, Boston Ward 4 Democratic Committee, 1983-present

Former Second Assistant Majority Leader, Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives

Former Assistant Majority Leader, Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives

Representative, Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives, District Ninth Suffolk, 1982-2019

Former Division Chair, Commonwealth of Massachusetts House or Representatives

Member, Congressional Redistricting

Former Member, Ethics Committee, Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on Rules, Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives

Member, Legislative Redistricting

Former Member, Rules Committee, Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives

Adjunct faculty, 1990-present

Museum Director, 1972-1984

Civil Rights and Community Organizing, 1964-1972

Member, Bostonian Society

Advisory Board, Calvert Social Investment Fund

Member, Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

Member, Environmental Diversity Forum

Member, Episcopal Network for Economic Justice

Member, Grassroots International

Member, Roxbury Historical Society

Member, Saint James Educational Center

Member, Shirley Eustis House Association

Member, Southend/Lower Roxbury Healthy Boston Coalition

Member, The Episcopal Church Archives

Member, Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry