Elizabeth Harper Kucinich
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Elizabeth Harper Kucinich is the British-born third (and current) Mrs. Dennis Kucinich. She is some 31 years his junior.
[edit] Background
A native of North Ockendon, in 1996 she graduated from high school and took a plane to Agra, India where she had signed up to volunteer at one of Mother Teresa's homes for India's poorest children.
After earning her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Kent, she spent 16 months in a rural Tanzanian village, where she lived in a concrete-block, tin-roofed house, and worked as an advocate for regional development.
After she left Tanzania, she volunteered with a British Red Cross refugee unit; earned a certificate in peace studies from Coventry University; and got a job as a fund-raiser for a seafarer's charity in London.
Often, her volunteer work took her to the House of Lords. That was where she heard financial analyst Stephen Zarlenga speak about monetary reform. She was impressed and soon was hired to become Zarlenga's assistant at the Chicago-based American Monetary Institute. It was that work that took her and Zarlenga to Dennis' office.
They fell in love and ultimately married in 2005 in Congressman Kucinich's hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
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"People who see us together understand - they see our connection," Elizabeth says. "And it's not like I'm some ditsy young thing and he's an old fogey. He has the wisdom of an ancient and the energy of youth."
Dennis says, "I've never seen myself as time-bound. When you make a connection on a soul level, age is not important."
As for having a family - Elizabeth says she would like children some day - Dennis says, "There's no problem there."
