As executive director of MASSPIRG, Ms. Domenitz is responsible for
coordinating policy development, research, and legislative advocacy for the
largest public interest organization in Massachusetts.
She has served in that position since 1989. Ms. Domenitz has overseen
several successful statewide initiative and referendum campaigns in Massachusetts, and has
been lobbying in the state’s legislature for more than 20 years. She
currently serves on the board of Massachusetts Common Cause, which gave her the
2005 Distinguished Citizen Award, and she is a former member of the national
governing board of Common Cause. Ms. Domenitz is also a board
representative and executive committee member of the Consumer Federation of
America, and was a founding member of Earth Day Greater Boston. She has
appeared on local radio and TV outlets many times, and has testified before the
state legislature on environmental, consumer and good government issues. She
joined the MASSPIRG staff in 1980 after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University. Janet lives in Cambridge with her husband
and two sons, and serves on the school committee of her synagogue.
