The Reverend Marcia L. Dyson is a native of Chicago, where she attended high school, the University of Illinois and Chicago State University. She served as the first chief of staff for Operation Push’s International Trade Bureau. In 1992, she was appointed by Mayor Richard Daley to serve as the Public Information Officer for the Mayor's Office of Special Events for the City of Chicago. Today, Dyson is the national spokesperson for the Congressional Black Caucus’ universal healthcare bill, HR676, and an affiliate with the Center for Social Justice, Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. President William J. Clinton selected her to be on his 2008 Clinton Global Initiative delegation team, which traveled to Africa and Mexico. In 2007, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright selected Dyson to be on the Women’s Global Summit Leadership. Rev. Dyson serves on many advisory boards whose missions include providing housing to single mothers, education, and combating child trafficking. She is also the Ambassador at Large for the Middle East Peace Civic Forum, an Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution organization. Dyson is working on several books, including Don't Call Me Angel, a novel that explores the spiritual development of an African-American woman and the cultural and racial elements of the sixties and seventies; The Women Who Would Be King: Female Socio-Civic Activists; and a memoir of her travels as a surrogate for Senator Clinton for President, The Rough Side of the Mountain: Trials on the 2008 Presidential Primary Trail.

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