Authors

DemLawyer is a practicing corporate attorney working in the areas of environmental law and natural resources. He has worked for major firms in California and New York, but he now lives in conservative Utah and is a faithful member of the LDS church, currently serving as a Sunday School instructor. He has three lovely children and a slightly-more-conservative wife.  He started MormonDemocrats.com as a way to express his liberal leanings. “Sometimes it just isn’t easy being green or, in this case blue, in a culture and environment so deeply red.” The idea of Mormon Democrats was and is simple: Empower the politically progressive within the LDS community via respectful discussion in a safe environment.

 

 ERIC BROWAN is a freelance writer of very little consequence whose passions lead him to write on topics including politics, the arts and popular culture. He grew up in a politically extraverted LDS household in a small town. Browan later traveled America as a performing artist and now does community work related to the field in the beautiful Northwest. He is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

Browan’s Politics: Democratic with a strong interest in racial and class equity.
Browan’s Hope: That Americans can re-claim nurturing compassion as a national virtue and sincerely consider “the others” among us.

 

BRAIN SCIENTIST lives the sleep deprived life in a Northern Virginia Suburb of Washington, D.C.  He is a research psychologist specializing in traumatic brain injury in a government agency that is very sensitive to its political neutrality.  Following their graduation from BYU, he and his first wife spent 14 years in graduate school with up to three children.  Until her death, they were faculty members at a large Midwestern university.  He has been a full or part-time professor of psychology, research methodology, management, statistics and/or economics at five universities.  He converted to the Democratic Party after his assistantship was cut as a direct result of the Reagan tax cuts of 1981 leaving his small family including his pregnant wife destitute.

He is a direct descendent of early Mormon stock including a member of the Willy and Martin Handcart Companies’ rescue party.  The tradition of service through sometimes difficult times has continued on through multiple generations.  Elder Brain Scientist was one of the missionaries that kept the Chilean Mission open during Pinochet’s overthrow of Salvador Allende in 1973.   He sent his son off on his mission six weeks after burying his mother.

When he is not working his brains out, teaching a course, serving as a temple ordinance worker or battling the D.C. commute, he enjoys reading, writing, and a quiet evening with his second wife and youngest daughter.  But the most joyful part of his life is holding his first newborn grandchild.

 

DALE DUNKIN is a successful owner of a specialty service based business, primarily targeting baby boomers and those with discretionary income.  He is an avid outdoorsman and has traveled Japan, Canada (western and north western provinces), Mexico, and Italy (“best time of my life”).

Dale’s Politics: “I’m close to being a card carrying Democrat, I consider myself a social progressive, moral centrist, fiscal realist and political junkie.”  

Dale’s Hope: “That we can eliminate the national debt, restore America’s international reputation, end the Iraq war, create a health system that people can use and afford,  as well as bring Americans together to work toward building a green economy.  Go Obama!”

 

Other bios coming soon. In the mean time please read up on the next President of the United States.