Candidate for
Representative; Congressional District 32

Widely respected international affairs scholar and peace activist Tad Daley has lived in Representative Julian Dixon's 32nd Congressional District for the last nine years and Los Angeles for the last 14 years. His wife,KPCC radio journalist and playwright Kitty Felde, has lived in the district for 24 years and in Southern California her whole life.

Dr. Daley was born in Detroit and raised in Chicago by a mother from Brooklyn and a father from Georgia. He attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, receiving a BA Cum Laude in political science. He went on to receive an MSc from the University of Southampton in England where he was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Fellow, a JD from the University of Illinois College of Law, and a PhD from the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies. He is presently a Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.

Daley worked four summers during college for United Van Lines, and 2 1/2 years after college as a driver for United Parcel Service, during which time he was a proud member of the Teamsters Union. From 1985-1986,he served as an Associate Attorney with Thrasher and Whitley, a securities litigation firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

From 1987-1995, while a PhD candidate in the RAND Graduate School, Daley served as a Graduate Fellow of the RAND/UCLA Center for Soviet and Russian Studies and a staff member of the RAND International Policy Department. From 1996-1998 he served as Founder and President of The Campaign for a New UN Charter (CNUNC), a non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) which worked to build support among both opinion leaders and grass roots citizens for redesigning, democratizing, and empowering the United Nations.In January 1999 Dr. Daley joined the State of the World Forum as Associate Director of its Global Security Program (GSP). Later that year the GSP separated and established itself independently as the Global Security Institute (GSI), under the leadership of the late Sen. Alan Cranston, with Dr. Daley as the Vice President. GSI's mission, which Dr. Daley played a large role in conceptualizing, was to build support for 1) abolishing nuclear weapons, 2) ending crimes against humanity through human rights enforcement, and 3) redesigning, democratizing and empowering the United Nations.

Dr. Daley has published essays on nuclear weapons issues, the UN, and Soviet and Russian foreign policy in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor and many other publications. In 1994, he was one of four scholars invited to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a special hearing on the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. He has also spoken before many academic conferences, Model UN meetings, Rotary clubs, and NGO assemblies. Since 1990, he has been active in the World Federalist Association (WFA).

During this time, he and Kitty have worked intensely for neighborhood empowerment in the 32nd district. Since 1993, they have volunteered as youth mentors at the Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) Youth Center. They long been active in both St. Monica's and St. Agatha's catholic churches.

"The centerpiece of my campaign is my vow to work against the three most cataclysmic forms of violence facing America and the world today -- nuclear weapons, genocide around the world, and handgun crime here at home."