Lenora Fulani

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Full Name	Lenora Fulani
Occupation	Psychologist
Date Of Birth	Apr 25, 1950(1950-04-25)
Age	74
Birthplace	Chester
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

Lenora Fulani Biography

Lenora Fulani is one of the most popular and richest Psychologist who was born on April 25, 1950 in Chester, United States. Fulani is born Lenora Branch in 1950 in Chester, Pennsylvania, the youngest child of Pearl who was a registered nurse along with Charles Branch, a railway baggage handler. Her father died from pneumonia at the age of 12. In her teens living in Chester during the 60s Fulani played a prominent role in their local Baptist church where she was a pianist in the choir. Fulani graduated of Chester High School.

Fulani has been working closely since the year 1980 in close collaboration with Fred Newman, a New York-based psychotherapist as well as a political activist who has been the campaign’s manager. Newman created the concept and application of Social Therapy in the 1970s and founded the New York Institute for Social Therapy in 1977. Together with Psychotherapist Lois Holzman, Fulani has tried to incorporate the therapeutic method of social therapy into programs for children such as The New York City-based All Stars Project, which she co-founded in 1981.

Fulani has worked on a number of community outreach and youth development projects. In 1984, she helped found the Castillo Cultural Center in New York City, which produces mostly plays written by Newman, in an unusual arrangement. In 1998, the Castillo Center merged with the All Stars Project youth charity and broadened the single base for Newman’s work. Fulani has been active in the development of educational programs associated with the All Stars Project, including the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth and the All Stars Talent Show Network, which create enriching experiences outside school for poor inner-city youth, using a performance model. Fulani described her approach in Derrick Bell’s 2004 book Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform:

She helped to recruit the NAP’s 1984 presidential candidate Dennis L. Serrette, an African-American trade union activist. Although he was quite involved with the party for years, Serrette left and published critical accounts of what he described as its cultic operation.

In her college years, she was involved in the black nationalist movement as did her husband, Richard. Both of them had chosen the name of Fulani, a West African people Fulani as an initial when they got wed in an ancient West African ceremony. While in City University, Fulani became fascinated by research conducted by Fred Newman and Lois Holzman who had just founded The New York Institute for Social Therapy and Research. Fulani was a student at the Institute in the 1980s in the beginning.

Lenora Fulani Net Worth

Lenora Fulani is one of the richest Psychologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lenora Fulani 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lenora Branch Fulani (born April 25 1950) is a famous American psychological therapist and psychotherapist also a politician. She is most famous for her presidential campaigns and the creation of youth programs for minorities within the New York City area. In 1988, when she ran for the United States presidential election heading the New Alliance Party ticket, she was the first woman and first African American to achieve ballot access across all fifty states. Fulani received more presidential votes in the U.S. general election than anyone else up to Jill Stein of the Green Party of the United States in 2012. Fulani’s political interests include gay equality, racial rights, and reforming the political system specifically, to support third-party parties.

The year was 1967 and Fulani received a grant to attend Hofstra University in New York. She graduated in 1971 and later earned an MA in Columbia’s Teachers College In the late 1970s, she received an Ph.D. in developmental psychology at The City University of New York (CUNY). Fulani was an invited research assistant in the department of Rockefeller University from 1973 to 1977, focusing on the way that learning and social environments affect the lives of African-American teenagers.

Fulani became active in the Newman-founded independent New Alliance Party (NAP) and emerged as a spokesperson who often provoked controversy. In 1982, Fulani ran for New York Lieutenant Governor on the NAP ticket. She has also been involved in the affiliated (or, some say, secret) Independent Workers Party, the Rainbow Alliance, and other shifting groups that were led by Newman.

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Fulani again ran as the New Alliance candidate in the 1992 presidential election, this time receiving 0.07% of the vote. She chose former Peace and Freedom Party activist Maria Elizabeth Muñoz as her vice-presidential running mate. Muñoz ran on the NAP ticket for the offices of US senator and California governor. In 1992 Fulani self-published her autobiography The Making of a Fringe Candidate, 1992.

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In 1994, Fulani and Newman became affiliated with the Patriot Party, one of the many groups that later competed for control of the Reform Party, which was founded by Ross Perot. She also joined with Jacqueline Salit to start the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), which was formed to bring together independent groups to challenge the bipartisan hegemony in American politics.

When did Lenora Fulani run for president?

Fulani ran for president in 1988 as the candidate of the New Alliance Party. She received almost a quarter of a million votes, or 0.2% of the vote. She was, at the same, the first African-American, independent, and female presidential candidate on the ballot in all 50 states.

Who was the first woman to achieve ballot access in all 50 states?

In the 1988 presidential election, Lenora Fulani became the first woman to achieve ballot access in all fifty states. Fulani was also the first African American to do so.

Where is Fulani from?

Fulani, also called Peul or Fulbe, a primarily Muslim people scattered throughout many parts of Africa, mostly in West Africa from Lake Chad in the east to the Atlantic coast. They are concentrated principally in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and Niger but can also be found in several other countries.

What was the result of the 1988 presidential election?

In the 1988 presidential election, Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush defeated Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. Bush won the popular vote by just under eight points, and won 426 of the 538 electoral votes.

Who was the first black person to run for President?

In 1848, Frederick Douglass became the first African-American presidential candidate of the US. His candidacy largely preceded black suffrage and coincided with legal slavery in the U.S. In 2009, Barack Obama became the first Black-American presidential candidate nominated by a major party, namely the Democrats.