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Elizabeth Jane Kucinich (née Harper; born 22 October 1977) is a British organic food and vegan advocate. She is the producer of two documentaries,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elizabeth Kucinich attends Oscars, debuts docs this year )〕 (''Hot Water'' and ''GMO OMG'') and a socially conscious business owner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elizabeth J. Kucinich - Washington, DC - about.me )〕 Married to former 8-term US Congressman and two time Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, Kucinich splits her time between Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. In 2005, after working with rural and urban poor in India and Tanzania, Kucinich moved to the USA to organise the first international conference on monetary reform for the American Monetary Institute. She has previously been the Director of Policy at the Center for Food Safety and the Director of Government Affairs for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elizabeth Kucinich named policy chief for food safety group )〕 and a congressional liaison for former President of the United Nations General Assembly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sign Up - LinkedIn )〕 Kucinich is a board director of several organisations including Sean Penn's Haitian relief organisation, J/P HRO,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=J/P HRO - Bringing sustainable programs to the Haitian people quickly and effectively )〕 the Rodale Institute 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Board of Directors )〕 and a fledgling vegan food company, Gardenbar. Kucinich is executive producer of ''GMO OMG'', which "arguably does for genetically modified organisms what Al Gore’s 2006 Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GMO OMG : Press and Events )〕 Kucinich is also producer of the documentary "Hot Water" which reveals radioactive contamination of ground water across the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ZeroHotWater - Home )〕 Kucinich's appearance has been noted in the media. Vanity Fair magazine named Elizabeth Kucinich among the nation's "best dressed" political wives, the Plain Dealer featured her preference for shopping in resale and consignment stores and Cleveland Magazine pegged her as "Cleveland's most interesting". Esquire magazine named her one of the sexiest women in politics, while the Washington Post described Kucinich as "if not a national obsession, then certainly a treasured District landmark" who as "an excellent example of genetics could easily have made it in the other Hollywood." ==Early life== Born Elizabeth Jane Harper, she was brought up in North Ockendon in the London Borough of Havering, England. She attended Coopers' Company and Coborn School in Upminster from 1989–96. According to her mother, as a girl Kucinich was always into human rights and the environment and circulated petitions on animal rights at school and lobbied Parliament from the age of 14 years. After leaving school, she travelled alone to India for six months. There she went to Agra and volunteered at one of Mother Teresa's homes for India's poorest children. After completing her university education in 2002, Kucinich moved to Tanzania where she worked with Voluntary Services Overseas, the UK's version of the Peace Corps, as a community development worker in the rural Dodoma Region. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Kucinich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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