{"id":34967,"date":"2013-12-08T02:17:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34967"},"modified":"2013-12-08T02:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:22:39","slug":"prince-george%e2%80%99s-political-duo-jolene-and-glenn-ivey-focus-on-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34967","title":{"rendered":"Prince George\u2019s Political Duo, Jolene and Glenn Ivey Focus on Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince George\u2019s Political Duo, Jolene and Glenn Ivey Focus on Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

AFRO<\/a>
\nPrince George’s County News<\/a>
\n2013-10-16<\/p>\n

Zenitha Prince<\/strong>, Special to the AFRO<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a former two-term state\u2019s attorney for Prince George\u2019s County<\/a> who is now a partner in the prestigious K Street law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway. She\u2019s the chairman of the Prince George\u2019s delegation in the Maryland House of Delegates and a candidate for lieutenant governor of Maryland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the characterization that they are a \u201cpower couple,\u201d however, Glenn Ivey, 52, laughs heartily. Jolene Ivey, also 52, has a similar reaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe find that pretty amusing,\u201d she said with a soft chuckle. \u201cWe\u2019re always buried in laundry and trying to get our children to soccer practice.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…Jolene Ivey<\/a> said her father and stepmother, Gigi Stephenson, nurtured in her a love of community service and advocacy in their Northeast Washington home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were always a good example of how to be good citizens in the world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But running for public office was never her plan, said Jolene Ivey, who earned a bachelor\u2019s in communication at Towson and a master\u2019s in journalism from Maryland.<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided to run for public office because it is a great vehicle to make things happen for people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In Annapolis<\/a>, she has often focused on issues related to women, children and families. If she is elected, her agenda will include working with Gansler to increase the minimum wage, close the achievement gap and improve diversity in government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is exciting to be in a position where I\u2019m going to be able to have a real impact on the direction the state is heading,\u201d she told the AFRO<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jolene Ivey\u2019s racial identification has become something of a subhead in the coverage of the campaign. Though light-skinned enough to be mistaken for White\u2014her birth mother was Caucasian\u2014Jolene Ivey identifies herself as African American.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t affect me inside because I know who I am\u2014I\u2019m Black,\u201d she said. \u201cMy family is Black\u2026and I\u2019m the mother of five Black sons. The only issue arises when other people make assumptions about me based on my outward appearance, but I can\u2019t do anything about that.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince George\u2019s Political Duo, Jolene and Glenn Ivey Focus on Family AFRO Prince George’s County News 2013-10-16 Zenitha Prince, Special to the AFRO He\u2019s a former two-term state\u2019s attorney for Prince George\u2019s County who is now a partner in the prestigious K Street law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway. She\u2019s the chairman of the Prince […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[16512,16514,16507,5972,16513,16511],"class_list":["post-34967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-afro","tag-glenn-ivey","tag-jolene-ivey","tag-maryland","tag-the-afro","tag-zenitha-prince"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}