Elizabeth Kucinich

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Religion/Spirituality

Politics/Government

feminism

environmentalism

Economic Justice

Democracy

Corporate Social Responsibility

Bioethics

Animal Rights

Alternative Economics

Activism

You will understand Elizabeth Kucinich better if you answer one question. How many 18 year-olds do you know who leave their comfortable homes to travel alone to India to work with Mother Teresa's charity? Or another? How many 14 year-olds do you know who have lobbied their national legislature? Or a last one? How many 28-year olds do you know who have traveled to five continents to work on and organize humanitarian projects?

The answer to those questions give a sense of who Elizabeth Jane Kucinich and the dedication to service and social justice that drives her. To say that Mrs. Kucinich cares about humanity's problems is an understatement. It has been a central part of her life since she was a child. It led her to complete a BA in Religious Studies and Theology and an MA in international conflict analysis. It led her to find a life-partner Dennis Kucinich. Together they share the same vision: to provide leadership to a more peaceful world, to see the rights of all living beings and environmental sustainability as guiding principles.

Her life has been that of a peacemaker in the midst of poverty and war. The search for methods to alleviate suffering. The BA in Religious Studies and Theology and MA in International Conflict Analysis, mentioned earlier, came from the University of Kent, U.K. She has completed vocational training in U.N. Human Rights Fieldwork, disaster response, and in child protection. Elizabeth is also credentialed in conflict transformation studies through the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in Appreciative Inquiry at Case Western Reserve University, USA and in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University, U.K. Before coming to America, Mrs. Kucinich was a volunteer British Red Cross refugee caseworker and a support worker for detained asylum seekers, while working for the 150 year old nonprofit organization, the Mission to Seafarers.

Mrs. Kucinich's work has taken many forms. She is engaged in policy and humanitarian issues such as human and animal rights as well as showing how businesses can be agents of positive change in the world. Elizabeth is actively involved in the Congressional Human Rights and Holistic Health Caucuses in the House of Representatives.

It was in India where she began to develop strategies to bring about change. In a community divided by social castes, Elizabeth created an educational project providing a welcome space for children of all backgrounds to socialize and learn together; a place to break down the barriers that separated them.

Elizabeth joined the VSO (Volunteer Service Overseas, the British equivalent of the Peace Corp) and worked in Tanzania. Because of her experiences living with a subsistence farming community in East Africa (2002-2003) and working in education, HIV/AIDS prevention, appropriate water technology and a micro bio gas energy project, have helped in research for models that could be used in under served communities in the United States.

Elizabeth worked with the Forum for Stable Currencies at the House of Lords, London, and organized the American Monetary Institute's first international conference in Chicago. For Elizabeth, the problems she has seen in Africa and India can start to change by reforming the global debt-based money system; the most pressing issue of our time.

Elizabeth’s work clearly parallels that of her husband, Congressman Dennis Kucinich. She traveled with him to the Middle East in 2006 where they met with leaders of Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine immediately after the Israel-Lebanon conflict. In Lebanon, Dennis and Elizabeth also spent time walking through destroyed towns and villages, over land mines, cluster bombs and missiles, listening to the heartbreaking accounts of death and destruction while at the same time being told time and again about the desire for peace. They heard a heart-rending story from one man in Qana, Lebanon who said, “We love America. We just don't want what your leaders do; we want peace.” Dennis and Elizabeth were standing in the crater of a bomb that had destroyed a building sheltering dozens of women and children. His wife and children had also been killed.

One thing is certain, Elizabeth Kucinich is a staunch supporter of Dennis' goals of upholding the American dream, reinstating the constitution, having true representation for the people and working for global prosperity and well being.

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