Janice Shaw Crouse was executive director of the

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IX. She is Senior Fellow of

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. She is on the advisory board of

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Biography

She was raised in Milstead, Georgia. She graduated from

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in 1961. There she met her future husband Gilbert Crouse. She was a college dean and public high school teacher. She became

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's speechwriter in 1991. In the 90s, she was executive director of

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's Ecumenical Coalition on Women and Society project.

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appointed her as an official US delegate to the 2002 U.N. Children's Summit and 2003 U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.

Bibliography

* ''Children at Risk: The Precarious State of Children's Well-Being in America'' (Transaction Publishers, 2010) * ''Marriage Matters: Perspectives on the Private and Public Importance of Marriage'' (Transaction Publishers, 2012)

References

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