[3] When Ben Shuldiner attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, he became involved in labor activism and was selected to join the inaugural class of the AFL–CIO's Union Summer, where he worked organizing day care workers in urban Chicago.
[4] In addition to his primary study of History of Science, he took graduate-level education courses to earn his teaching credentials and graduated magna cum laude in 1999.
[6] Shuldiner was one of six Democratic candidates in the 2006 election to defeat incumbent Republican Sue Kelly for the 19th Congressional District of New York.
His campaign was focused on ending No Child Left Behind and creating a single payer national health care program.
Shuldiner lost the nomination to fellow Democrat John Hall, who went on to beat Kelly in a close election.