PHILIPPE BOUCHER
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Email : philippeboucher2@gmail.com
Maintenant sur blogspot
https://philippeboucher2.blogspot.com/
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Investigative cyberjournalist, advocate, writer, translator (English to French, French to English, blogger, podcaster, union organizer (Temporary Workers of America).
Advocacy strategist and communications expert. Also cultivating "l'art d'être grand père".
August 2025 protesting the abusive shut down of the Typepad platform on the blog Typepadunion.blogspot.com
December 2022 to August 2025: start of a new blog of cyberinterviews in French, Vaperendezvous, about people involved in tobacco harm reduction in France.
April 2022 to present: In April 2022, my 95 years old Mom, who lives in Britany, developed Age Macular Degeneration that deprived her suddenly of most of her eyesight. I created of a blog in French, Voyage en DMLA to collect information and develop advocacy while trying to help her manage the digital tools that could substitute for her new incapacity to read. A work still in progress, even if she befriended Alexa. She is so courageous, I wish Amazon, Audible, and all other megacorporations would develop programs centered around vocal commands easy to use for people with macular degeneration.
October 2021 to April 2022, sorting family pictures and producing a 'petit essai de généalogie familiale'. A work still in progress. Moved to blogspot https://petitessaidegenealogie.blogspot.com/
May 2020 to October 2021: blog creator/editor on and off, of Honest Feedback, Questions to/about the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World advocating in vain for transparency about the use of millions of Philip Morris dollars by FSFW.
June 18, 2018 to January 2nd, 2019: On-Line Community Manager for the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. Resigned to protest bullying by incompetent 'supervisor' after criticizing inept performance by costly advertising agency.
October 2017 to January 2019: THR-Rendez-vous, off and on blog editor of 28 cyber-interviews with advocates about Tobacco Harm Reduction issues and tobacco control in general. Editor of MyTHRjourney
July 2017: author of En souvenir de Louis Boucher, a small memory book about my father, recycling the content of the blog I created after his death in 2005.
https://ensouvenirdelouisboucher.blogspot.com/
January 2017: author of My little book of French songs: A presentation and selection of favorite French songs. Still a work in progress
January 2017: French Tutor for Varsity Tutors
July 2016: author of The Other Microsoft -Second Edition, update of The Other Microsoft after the signature of the first collective bargaining agreement.
May 2015: blog Images for Paid leave
April 2015: author of L'autre moitié de Microsoft, French version of The Other Microsoft.
April 2015: blog Notes about homelessness and affordable housing in Seattle and Puget Sound
March 2015: creation of the blog Paid Time Off Matters after Microsoft announced it was changing its paid time off requirements for the employees of its contractors. Article in the Washington Post
January 2015: articles in the Boston Globe and the Seattle Times about Temporary Workers of America and our demands for paid time off
October 2014: author of The Other Microsoft, self-published book (blurb and Amazon/Kindle) about the creation of Temporary Workers of America
June 2014: creation of the blog Lionbridge Union devoted to the information about the union drive and the collective bargaining process for Temporary Workers of America
March 2014: start organizing the employees of the lab toward the creation of a new independent union Temporary Workers of America
December 2011 to July 2016: Content certification specialist for the apps destined to Microsoft's Windows Store (Redmond and Bellevue) via Lionbridge Technologies
November 2011: Blog for the Senegalese League Against Tobacco
October 2011: Honest Feedback, Advocating for Transparency (2007-2011)
September 2011: Blog for the Alliance Antitabac de RCA
January 2011: Bonjour Bainbridge, a collection of 125 vignettes in a book format, available as print on demand via Blurb.com.
December 2010: Blog for Mauritius and the FCTC
November 2010: Conference Blog for COP4
September 2010: Blog for Vers une Afrique Sans Tabac
August 2010: Blogs for the African antitobacco comic strip Sigareth in English and in French
May 2010: Special blog for World No-Tobacco Day, Tribute to Women in Tobacco Control
March 2010: On the Green Front is back with Progressive Radio Network
November 2009: Blogs about the AORTIC 09 conference in English and in French
August-September 2009: Blog La chanson du jour - French songs 101, how to incorporate songs in the French class curriculum using new internet tools and services
July 2009: Consulting for IMPACT for their answer to the Gates Foundation's LOI about promoting tobacco control in Africa.
March/May 2009 : Blog for the internet based radio show On The Green Front.
February 2009: Blog for Génération Sans Tabac (Guinea Conakry)
September/December 2008 : Series of blogs for IDRC’s program about tobacco control in Africa : blog for the COP3 World Conference , thematic blogs about Tobacco Prevalence in Africa, Tobacco Taxes in Africa, INB2 conference
July 2008: Conference blog for the tobacco control sessions of the World Cancer Congress UICC 08
February-May 2008: 123 Soleil blog about solar houses and publication of La maison écologique for Multimedia Press.
January 2008: Publication of the book 100 motivations pour arrêter de fumer.
2007-2005: Web 2.0 consultant and blogger for the Electronic Network of the International Union Against Cancer UICC-Globalink: blogs for conferences in Bangkok, Basel, for tobacco control videos, images, graphic warnings, cyberinterviews with advocates, 397 audio podcasts etc.
Creation of multiple blogs for African tobacco control advocates.
2004-2007: Blog for the talkshow EcoTalk aired on Air America Radio
2003: Publication of the book People and Issues in Tobacco Control.
2002-2000: Work for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (cyberinterviews with US based advocates, report about web activities in tobacco control)
2000-1999: Web-Editor for Globalink (180 cyber-interviews, press-reviews).
1997-1991: Executive Director of the French National Committee for Tobacco Control, Paris, France
Initiated and supervised more than 200 lawsuits to enforce the Tobacco Control Act.
Obtained more than $2 million in punitive damages and out of court settlements.
Initiated aggressive TV media campaigns funded by money from punitive damages and out of court settlements.
Successfully lobbied the French Health Ministry to save and implement the International Convention for Smoke-free flights.
Developed and managed the first Tobacco Quitline in France.
Developed a special stop smoking project designed to decrease smoking among pregnant mothers and their families.
Obtained grants and successfully led and organized five European projects under the auspices of the Europe Against Cancer Program.
Created the first tobacco control session within the International Congress on Anti- Cancer Treatment (inviting guest-speakers like Mitch Zeller, Greg Connolly, Stanton Glantz)
Launched the first daily tobacco control news service in French for the worldwide internet based network UICC-Globalink.
Researched and wrote briefs for senior ministry officials on a variety of public administration issues including global and strategic planning related to tobacco control.
Led a staff of eight to fifteen professionals and numerous external consultants.
Directed extensive research, writing and production of in-depth reports on tobacco control.
Edited and managed production of organizational publications including newsletters, press reviews, public policy updates, association membership directories, non smoking guides to restaurants and public places.
Participated and contributed abstracts to four World Conferences on Tobacco or Health.
Interviewed on French national television, Good Morning America, BBC, Radio-Canada and various radio programs about tobacco control issues
1991-1986: Founder and Chairman of Tabac-Environnement, Paris, France
Created and developed this small advocacy non profit that ultimately led and organized the take over of the Board of the French National Committee for Tobacco Control by non-smoker's rights activists
Produced the French version of the famous documentary Death in the West, about dying cow-boys who smoked and Philip Morris
Led to the end of the distribution by SEITA of the Chevignon cigarettes brand that was targeting French youth including with schoolnotebooks of this brand by Clairefontaine.
Created the first survey of smoking habits of French elected officials and business leaders.
Produced and aired for the first time in France a TV clip on passive smoking and new borns.
Organized in partnership with the oil company ELF (as part of a settlement for illegal promotional practice of cigarette brands) a campaign to raise awareness about smoking in a car with children on board.
1986-1978: Founder and Chairman, Association pour la Promotion du Papier Recylé, Paris, France
Created and developed a line of recycled paper stationery products.
Created a recycling center and successfully lobbied the Telecommunications Ministry to provide a national program for the recycling of all phone books.
Organized two international conferences on paper recycling.
Author of the award winning book L’Espoir des Arbres on forestry issues, paper waste and recycling. (Best Environmental Book of the Year in 1983)
Author of the official brochures and leaflets devoted to recycled paper for the French Environment Ministry.
Created a consumer cooperative and successful mail order catalog for recycled paper products.
Recipient of a grant from The U.S. German Marshall Fund to study recycling programs in the US.
1977-1976: Intern then Assistant with the European Environment Bureau, Brussels, Belgium
1976: Intern, Environment Service of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
1975-1974 : Assistant French Professor, Loretto Heights College, Denver, Colorado
1973: Assistant Law School University of Cameroon, Yaoundé
EDUCATION
1974: M.A. Political Science, University of Paris I- Sorbonne
1973: B.A. French Modern Literature, University of Cameroon
1972: M.A. Communications, CELSA, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
1971: J.D. Law, University of Paris X - Nanterre
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