Kitty Dukakis

writer

Kitty Dukakis, the wife of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, is a founding member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, an advocate for programs to battle homelessness and promote refugee rights, and an overseer at the New England Conservatory of Music. She revealed her ongoing struggle to overcome depression and her accompanying addictions to alcohol and diet pills in her 1990 memoir, Now You Know.