Charles A. Pillsbury is a mediator, lawyer, and community activist in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is the co-director of the Center on Dispute Resolution at Quinnipiac University School of Law.
In October 2015, he publicly disclosed through a Hartford Courant op-ed that he was sexually abused as a student there.
[8] Pillsbury became actively involved in politics when he worked on the presidential campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy in 1968 in New Hampshire.
Pillsbury ran for United States Congress as a Green Party candidate in Connecticut's 3rd congressional district in 2002.
[9] Pillsbury challenged Democratic incumbent Rosa DeLauro in Connecticut's 3rd congressional district.