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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Joan K. Christensen |
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Syracuse, New York , United States |
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March 13, 1938
(86 years)
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| Info | Joan K. Christensen, Democrat, was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 1990. Christensen represents the 119th Assembly District, comprised of a portion of the City of Syracuse and the towns of DeWitt, LaFayette and Onondaga.
A long-time resident of Syracuse, Christensen has always been an active community leader. Prior to her tenure in the Assembly, Christensen was the first woman to serve on the Syracuse Board of Assessment Review. She then served three terms on the Syracuse Common Council.
Christensen's legislative agenda reflects her efforts to improve New York's business climate, providing tax relief to both businesses and working families and ensuring quality education for the youth of our state. She is also a statewide leader in efforts to ensure that quality, affordable child care is accessible for all of New York's working families, sponsoring and advocating strongly for the enactment of the Quality Child Care and Protection Act of 2000.
Christensen, who served as chair of the Assembly's Task Force on Women's Issues from 1995-2000, has long been concerned about all issues having an impact on New York State families, but in particular those issues directly affecting women and children. She also served two terms as the elected Chair of the Legislative Women's Caucus, which is a bipartisan organization made up of the women legislators from both the Assembly and Senate.
In addition, Christensen most recently chaired the Assembly's Administrative Regulation Review Commission (ARRC), a bipartisan legislative panel which oversees the regulatory activities of state agencies and develops and advocates for regulatory reform legislation. As Chair, Christensen focused her efforts on helping small business and local governments and ensuring that public input is sought and utilized in all aspects of the regulatory process. She is also dedicated and committed to bringing about positive reform within the legislative process.
In the Assembly, Christensen serves on the following standing committees: Housing, Higher Education, Insurance, Labor, Real Property Taxation and Small Business. She is an honorary member of the New York State Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force and serves on the Assembly Task Force on Workers' Compensation Reform. As such, Christensen continues to play a key role in the widely acclaimed workers' compensation reforms.
Christensen belongs to a number of business and civic organizations including Women in Government, serving on its Board of Directors; the National Order of Women Legislators; Delta Kappa Gamma; the Metropolitan Business and Professional Women's Club of Syracuse; the South Side Business Association and the VFW Post ;ns1955 Ladies Auxiliary in LaFayette. In addition, she serves as an ex-officio member of the Everson Museum of Art Board of Trustees and was recently nominated to serve as an Honorary Member of Vietnam Veterans of America, Central New York Chapter 103.
Christensen is the recipient of numerous awards including the Women Working Wonders from the YWCA of Binghamton/Broome County, Feminist Legislator of Honor from the Central New York Chapter of the National Organization of Women, the Children's Champion Award from the Coalition for Child Care of Nassau County and the 1998 Friend of Children Award from the Child Care Council of Onondaga County and the Syracuse Association for the Education of Young Children.
Recent local awards include a Certificate of Recognition from the Upstate Medical University and its United University Professions; the Vietnam Veterans of America, Central New York Chapter 103 Veterans' Advocacy Award; The Outstanding Service Award presented by the East Syracuse-Minoa High School Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA); the Syracuse Chapter of the Society for Clinical Social Work, the Central Chapter of the New York Association for Marriage and Family Therapists, the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work Certificate of Appreciation; the Child Care Council of Onondaga County's Child Care Champion 2000 Award; The Central New York Council on Adolescent Pregnancy Service Award, and the American Lung Association of Central New York Asthma Award, in recognition of her championship against this debilitating and deadly disease.
Christensen is the mother of four children. She resides on the eastside of Syracuse and remains active in the community.
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