Member, Board of Education, State of Rhode Island, 2014-present

Former Deputy Majority Leader, Rhode Island State Senate

Candidate, Rhode Island State Senate, District 26, 2002, 2004

Senator, Rhode Island State Senate, 1988-2002

Former Member, Committee on Finance, Rhode Island State Senate

Former Chair, Committee on Health, Education and Welfare, Rhode Island State Senate

Former Chair, Permanent Legislative Oversight Commission on the Department of Children, Youth and Families, Rhode Island State Senate

Former Co-Chair, Special Commission on Health Care Reform and the Rhode Island System of Care Task Force, Rhode Island State Senate

Former Assistant Principal for Student Services, Hugh B. Bain Middle School

Member, Board of Directors, Healthcentric Advisors, present

Community Chair, Rhode Island Global Waiver Implementation Task Force, present

Member, Advisory Committee, Coastal Medical Accountable Care Organizations

Member, Alliance for the Mentally III

Member, American Cancer Society

Member, American Heart Association

Former Member, Board, Adoption Rhode Island

Former Member, Board, Alzheimer Center

Former Member, Board, Childhood Lead Action Project

Former Member, Board, Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence

Former Member, Board, Rhode Island Kids Count

Chair, Children's Code Commission

Former Chair, Committee on Academic and Student Affairs, Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education

Member, Cranston Association of School Administration

Former Board Member, Hope

Member, National Association of Secondary School Principals

Member, Rhode Island Chapter National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse

Member, Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless and Life Span

Member, Rhode Island Department of Health

Member, The Louis Feinstien Alzheimer's Center

Member, United Way of Rhode Island

Vice-President, Volunteers in Cranston Schools