F L CocozzelliF. L. Cocozzelli is an attorney in private practice who lives in New York City. He served as executive director of the Committee for the Advancement of Stem Cell Research (2002-2006), a political action committee which advocated for political candidaes and policies that supported embryonic stem cell research. From 2006 through 2008, he served as an advisor to the 527 organization StemPAC.The author also served as an Associate Director (2006-2010) for the think tank Institute for Progressive Christianity (IPC). During this time he co-authored two IPC White Papers: Reclaiming Capitalism Through Principles of Distributive Justice and How Neoconservatives and theReligious Right Have Joined Forces to Fight Stem Cell Research (co-authored with Eve Herold).His published articles include How Roman Catholic Neocons Peddle Natural Law into Debates about Life and Death, in The Public Eye Magazine, summer 2008, Volume 23, Number 2; and Saving Monsignor Ryan: Refuting the Myths of Neoconservative Roman Catholic Economics in The Public Eye Magazine, Winter 2008, Volume 23, Number 4.Frank contributed a chapter (Take It from a Stem Cell Catholic) to the book Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America (edited by Frederick Clarkson, 2008). His work has been cited as source material for several books, including The Neo-Catholics: Implementing Christian Nationalism in America (author, Betty Clermont, 2009); The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control (author, Steven Hassan, 2019); and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (author, Craig Unger, 2021).Mr. Cocozzelli was also a featured writer at the website Talk2Action (2006-2017) where he regularly wrote about religious freedom, the Christian Right (particularly Catholicism), neoconservatism, and economics. Several of his posts have been printed and reprinted on websites including AlterNet, the Roosevelt Institute, and Religious Dispatches. Read More Read Less
