Mark Burton
Campaign Director, Michigan Stem Cell Ballot Question Committee

Mark A. Burton is Campaign Director for the CureMichigan campaign, seeking to overturn one of the nation’s strictest policies banning embryonic stem cell research.  He was drawn to the campaign and the issue, like many of us, due to a deep personal interest in finding cures for patients and families who suffer from debilitating diseases.

Mark served as head lobbyist and political director for the Michigan Association for Justice where he worked with Michigan elected officials on advancing legislative solutions to consumer and civil justice issues.  There, he was recruited to help guide an award-winning grassroots campaign that overturned partisan control of the Michigan House of Representatives in 2006.

Prior to that, Mark served in advocacy positions with the State of Michigan, the Michigan House of Representatives and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Mark has extensive experience working on candidate and ballot campaigns at the local, state and national levels.

Born and raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Mark now resides in Lansing.  He was among fewer than 50 law students worldwide invited to participate in an international human rights program at Oxford, and received a law degree from Michigan State University College of Law and two Bachelor’s degrees from Northern Michigan University.