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About Joan Dean

-2001-
July 6, 2001—Donald H. Harrison, "Confessions of a male congressional spouse," San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage

-2003-
February 21, 2003—Donald H. Harrison, "AJC joins protest of Belgian ruling," San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage

-2005-
December 7, 2005—Joan Dean is honored by the American Jewish Committee on the website of the Louis Rose Society for the Preservation of Jewish History.

2005-12-12 Louis Rose Society Newsletter #13-American Jewish Committee salutes its presidents on LRS website

-2006-
January 13, 2006—Biographical sketch of Joan Dean: Joan Dean served in the administration of California Governor Gray Davis at the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency from March 1999 until December 2003 as Acting Undersecretary, Deputy Secretary and as San Diego Regional Director. She was also an Ex-Officio member of the California Coastal Commission and a member of the Employment Training Panel. She is currently working as a public affairs and fundraising consultant in New York and California. Dean has enjoyed a most varied and exciting career in government, politics and public relations. She served as U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's Deputy State Director in San Diego, and worked for Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy, assisting him with his field operations and with economic development projects. Dean held several administrative posts in New York State government at the State Consumer Protection Board and the Department of Civil Service. She also heads her own political consulting and fundraising firm in San Diego and in New York; her clients include California Governor Gray Davis, Assemblyman Howard Wayne, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Congresswoman Jane Harman, New York Attorney General Candidate Karen Burstein and Steven Spielberg for his Survivors of the Shoah project. Dean holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany. She served as President of the San Diego Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and also holds memberships in several community organizations. She is mother of two daughters, Dr. Lisa Cohen, a physician in Boston, and Amy Cohen, a social worker in New York, and also has five grandchildren.

2006-01-13—Donald H. Harrison, "AJC to shut down its San Diego office," jewishsightseeing.com