- Elizabeth Kucinich
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name = Elizabeth Kucinich
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birth_date = birth date and age|1977|10|22
birth_place =North Ockendon , Havering,London ,United Kingdom
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spouse =Dennis Kucinich (2005 - present)
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religion =Elizabeth Jane Kucinich (née Harper; born
October 22 ,1977 inNorth Ockendon , Havering,London ,United Kingdom ) is the wife of American politician and former Democratic Presidential candidateDennis Kucinich . They married onAugust 21 ,2005 .Background
Born Elizabeth Harper, she was brought up in
North Ockendon in theLondon Borough of Havering . In 1996 she went toAgra, India , to volunteer at one ofMother Teresa 's homes forIndia 's poorest children.cite news |first=Evelyn |last=Theiss |title=How Kucinich Found Love |url=http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1030-04.htm |publisher=Cleveland Plain Dealer |date=2005-10-30 |accessdate=2007-05-21 ] Upon earning her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Kent at Canterbury, she spent 16 months in a ruralTanzania n village and worked as an advocate forregional development .After leaving Tanzania, she volunteered with a
British Red Cross refugee unit; earned a certificate inPeace Studies fromCoventry University ; and got a job as a fund-raiser for a seafarer's charity inLondon . Her volunteer work often brought her to theHouse of Lords . At that time she heard financial analyst Stephen Zarlenga speak about monetary reform. She was impressed and soon was hired to become Zarlenga's assistant at theChicago -basedAmerican Monetary Institute . That work took her and Zarlenga to Dennis Kucinich's office.She married Dennis Kucinich in 2005, in his hometown of
Cleveland, Ohio . "The Sunday Times" noted that one of herhero ines isDiana, Princess of Wales , partly for her bringing "compassion back intopublic life ". [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1813550.ece Essex girl fills White House race with lurve] ] Like her husband Dennis, Elizabeth is also avegan . [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3139687] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganbear/2052579475/]Education
She attended
Coopers' Company and Coborn School located inUpminster ,Essex , from 1989 to 1996.She studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury in the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001 and graduated with a BA in Religious Studies and Theology and a Master's degree in International Conflict Analysis. Her
thesis for her master's was on "Conflict Resolution in World Politics".External links
* [http://www2.kucinich.us/elizabeth Official Elizabeth Kucinich Page on Kucinich.us]
* [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1030-04.htm "Elizabeth and Dennis Kucinich Article - How they Met"]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1813550.ece Essex girl fills White House race with lurve] Times Online articleNotes
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