Lenora Fulani Ph.D 03-04-96 Original air date-

Lenora Fulani. Ph.d. Born Lenora Branch on April 25, 1950, in Chester, PA; daughter of Charles (a railroad worker) and Pearl Branch (a licensed practical nurse); changed name to Lenora Branch Fulani, 1973; divorced; children: Ainka (daughter) and Amani (son).
Education: Hofstra University, B.A.; Columbia University Teachers College, M.A.; City University of New York, Graduate Center, Ph.D.; New York Institute for Social Therapy and Research, post-graduate training in social therapy.
Memberships: Transnational Radical Party, General Council; Committee for a Unified Independent Party, Chair; Patriot Party, co-founder, 1994.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Lenora Branch Fulani has established herself as one of the leading voices in national independent politics and working class advocacy. She is a community organizer against discrimination and violence. She is the first woman and first African American to have appeared as a presidential candidate on all U.S. ballots. She also practices social therapy in order to make a difference on an individual level.
Fulani began exploring activism and social change in the 1970s. While completing her doctorate work and working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City, she attended a therapy group run by Dr. Fred Newman, a psychologist who practices what he calls social therapy. The group helped her eradicate her prejudices against different kinds of people. She wrote in The Making of a Fringe Candidate, 1992 that "what I had learned about [people different from myself] was a pile of bull and very hurtful. I worked aggressively to do something about that." With Dr. Newman's help, she recognized that she had been raised with "certain expressions [and] attitudes" that were unfair assessments of people she did not know. "[Prejudices are] so deeply embedded in how you think that they make you insensitive and hurtful even to people you love very much. I worked hard in that group to provide leadership around these issues...."

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