LINGK: Pick one of the many issues that ONE addresses, possibly one close to heart and
tell us about it?

ELAINE: Hard to zero in on one issue but I guess hunger is what I am most focused on. As a mother,
I cannot imagine what it would be like to be unable to feed your child. In this world of plenty, no mother
should have to watch her child die from hunger and related preventable diseases. The helplessness and
hopelessness of hunger is unbearable to me.

LINGK: What's the purpose of the ONE Vote '08 campaign, and what happens if the wrong
guy gets elected?

ELAINE: The purpose of ONE Vote 08 is to get ONE's agenda --fighting extreme poverty, hunger and
global disease -- onto the candidates’ radar screens and, ultimately, ensure they are addressed in their
foreign policy platform. Being a good neighbor, and improving America’s image abroad by making more
friends than enemies, needs to be a part of the next president’s foreign policy plan.

LINGK: As a member of the U.S. delegation that traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, for the
G8 summit in 2005, could you share with our readers what was accomplished, and
why was it significant?

ELAINE: First of all, the world started a dialog about hunger and poverty that hadn’t been addressed
much before that. People came together from all over the world – campaigners from the G-8 nations and
from the developing world came together to talk about solutions and hold our leaders’ accountable.

The most significant outcome of the G-8, as far as policy goes, was that further action was taken and
commitments made to broaden debt relief. The ONE Campaign works to hold America’s leaders accountable
for these commitments, called the Millennium Development Goals, and tracks the progress we’re making in
meeting them by the 2015 goal.

LINGK: Speaking as a “soccer dad”, I understand that being a “soccer mom” is a tremendous
responsibility. How did you find the time and motivation to volunteer as district organizer for
Bread for the World and as an activist for the ONE campaign?