Joelle R. Fishman (born December 5, 1946) is an American

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, writer and editor.

Political career

Fishman currently chairs the

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. She also serves as a Commissioner on the City of

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Peace Commission. She is a member of the executive board of the Alliance of Retired Americans in Connecticut. From 1973 to 1982, she was the Communist Party candidate for Connecticut's Third

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. She has been a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States.

Personal life

She was born in 1946 in

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. She graduated from Douglass College (the women's college at

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). She has lived in New Haven since 1968."Portrait of a Communist"
, Yale Daily News, April 4, 2012

References

1946 births Living people Politicians from Camden, New Jersey Politicians from New Haven, Connecticut Rutgers University alumni American communists Writers from Camden, New Jersey Writers from New Haven, Connecticut {{connecticut-politician-stub