WAND Women Speakers' Bureau
Speaker: Marie Rietmann

Region Washington, DC Honorarium None Expenses to be covered None. Topics of focus How to lobby, federal budget priorities, nuclear weapons, and nuclear non-proliferation Preferred audience Informal and small

Marie has served as WAND’s Public Policy Director since early 2003. Prior to joining WAND, she worked for Oregon elected officials for a dozen years, including Sen. Mark Hatfield, Rep. Elizabeth Furse, and Rep. Earl Blumenauer where she was responsible for defense and foreign policy issues.

Marie’s legislative accomplishments included staff work on the 1993 Spratt-Furse ban on low-yield nuclear weapons. Her efforts enabled Rep. Blumenauer to become the national leader on cleanup of unexploded ordnance, the bombs and shells that did not go off as intended and subsequently litter the landscape.

Marie’s partner, Keo Cavalcanti, is head of the sociology and anthropology department at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Her parents and her brother and his family farm their family wheat and cattle ranch she grew up on in north central Oregon. She is a lifelong member of the United Church of Christ.