Lenora Fulani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Lenora Fulani

American academic and activist

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1950

Place of Birth: Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: politician, psychologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Lenora Fulani

  • Lenora Branch Fulani (born April 25, 1950) is an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and political activist.
  • She is best known for her presidential campaigns and development of youth programs serving minority communities in the New York City area.
  • In the 1988 United States presidential election heading the New Alliance Party ticket, she became the first woman and the first African American to achieve ballot access in all fifty states.
  • She received more votes for president in a U.S.
  • general election than any other woman in history until Jill Stein of the Green Party of the United States in 2012.
  • Fulani's political concerns include racial equality, gay rights and, for the past decade, political reform, specifically to encourage third parties. In her career, Fulani has worked closely since 1980 with Fred Newman, a New York-based psychotherapist and political activist who has often served as her campaign manager.
  • Newman developed the theory and practice of Social Therapy in the 1970s, founding the New York Institute for Social Therapy in 1977.
  • Along with psychologist Lois Holzman, Fulani has worked to incorporate the social therapeutic approach into youth-oriented programs, most notably the New York City-based All Stars Project, which she co-founded in 1981.In 1993, Fulani joined activists who supported Ross Perot for president in the 1992 United States presidential election in a national effort to create a new pro-reform party.
  • In 1994 she led formation of the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP).
  • For years Fulani was active with Newman's version of the International Workers Party (IWP).
  • More recently she has been active with the Independence Party of New York, which was founded in Rochester in 1991.

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