I just got word this afternoon that I got my DREAM, DREAM job at an organization in New York called the Center for Constitutional Rights. Looks like we’ll be spending the summer in Manhattan!

I first heard about the Center when Maher Arar’s attorney spoke about how he (a Canadian citizen) was kidnapped in the U.S. and extraordinarily rendition-ed to Syria and tortured. CCR represents him and all of the Guantanamo detainees. This radio story literally brought me to tears. I wept for our country, and I wept with joy that there are attorneys working to restore its integrity.

They do amazing work & I’m proud to be aligned with any organization that right-wingers call “The Terrorists’ Legal Team” and writes a book entitled “The Case Against Donald Rumsfeld.”

I couldn’t be more excited.

(in case you couldn’t tell…I’ll show you with my face how I feel about this job).

11 Responses to “I am the greatest human alive!”

1. The 'Chard says:

   19 February 2009 at 8:33 pm

   You are too humble. You are the greatest human who has ever lived (excluding those who founded major religions)!
2. amy says:

   19 February 2009 at 8:38 pm

   AWESOME!! GO TEAM!!! CONGRATS!!!!

   Ash will wet her little ash-pants.
3. Kate says:

   19 February 2009 at 8:42 pm

   Luckily founders of the major religions are not alive… Mohamed, Buddha, and Joseph Smith would really have me beat.
4. Anne says:

   19 February 2009 at 8:59 pm

   Awww, man! I wish I were still 2 hours away from there (or still living there, period!). But you will have the time of your life. MORE congratulations!
5. Ann Marie Peck Whittaker says:

   19 February 2009 at 9:18 pm

   Hip, hip, hooray!!!!! I’m so excited for you!!!!!!!!!!
6. Amy jane says:

   19 February 2009 at 9:24 pm

   Holy smokes! That is the awesomest news I’ve heard all day! If we go to PA we’d only be 2-3ish hrs away… woo woooo.
7. Kate says:

   19 February 2009 at 10:19 pm

   Thanks guys. If you are ever accused of being terrorists, I will be your lawyer.
8. susan f says:

   20 February 2009 at 2:15 pm

   woo hoo!
9. momalicious kelly says:

   20 February 2009 at 4:27 pm

   If Martin Luther King, Jr. were here, he’d be high-fivin’ you!!!!

   Does this mean we get to visit Manhattan? Get this air matresses fired up!
10. english says:

    22 February 2009 at 12:53 am

    congrats! give ‘em hell.
11. heidi says:

    22 February 2009 at 3:51 pm

    Way to go Kate!!! I bet the center has already had countless parties to celebrate receiving the best human alive to come work for them. So excited for you! You deserve it.