Elizabeth Arnone
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Elizabeth Arnone is an American
United States
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 politician who is Co-Chair of the Green Party
Green Party (United States)
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 of the United States (GPUS) and serves on several GPUS committees including the Presidential Campaign Support Committee, Finance Committee and the Fundraising Committee http://www.njvoterinfo.org/2007election/candidateprofiles/arnone.php. A resident of Brick Township
Brick Township, New Jersey
-Transportation:The major county routes that pass through are CR 528, and CR 549 . Two state routes pass through: Route 70 and Route 88...

, New Jersey
New Jersey
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, she has been the treasurer of the Green Party of New Jersey
Green Party of New Jersey
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 since 2001 http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=43107 along with being the Coordinator of the Ocean County greens. Arnone is a 2007 candidate for the New Jersey General Assembly
New Jersey General Assembly
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 representing the 10th District, a seat she ran for in 2003. She joined the Green Party in 2000 and worked on Ralph Nader
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's 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=43107.

Arnone worked for 14 years at AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

where she was employed as a Technical Writer and Metrics Analyst. Prior to that, she worked as an assistant to a Campus Manager for Historically Black Universities and Colleges where she did administrative work and participated in recruiting efforts, visiting professor programs, equipment donations and curriculum development.

In addition to the work above, Arnone coordinated and provided leadership in Valuing Diversity activities along with facilitating diversity training sessions throughout the country for AT&T; participated in numerous employee councils and teams addressing issues of the work environment, i.e., people with disability, women, people of color, and GLBT; and worked for several years as a volunteer at a crises hotline center receiving calls from people in crises and connecting them to resources for help, or just listening.

Arnone is the single parent of three children and grandmother of two.

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