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| Name | Rae Hart Anderson |
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| Info | About Rae Hart Anderson
Rae Hart Anderson is a long time Minnesota resident, and raised her children here. She has lived and taught in California, where her husband was employed by Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation in engineering physics.
Rae has four children and also parented five foster children and an exchange student from Mexico. Two of the foster children were very young Mom's- to- be, who delivered healthy babies and placed them for special adoptions.
Rae had her first job babysitting her cousins. The next job was folding Shopping Newspapers! She worked her way through college working in a supermarket for five years as a union member with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union.
I can milk a cow and clean a chicken, but I'd rather not," Rae remarked. However, some of Rae's best memories are of summers spent on her grandparent's farm--except for the tornado. The house stood, but the barn and machine shop were destroyed, along with some animals and much equipment. The rural neighborhood recovered with help from each other she noted. " Everyone helped locate and return animals, everyone rebuilt the barn, everyone prayed and everyone survived," she recalled. "I still remember being in the root cellar waiting for the storm to stop," she said. "It did, and the people started reconstruction of their farms, together."
Rae is a University of Minnesota graduate in Speech Communication, Education, the Humanities and Journalism--a multidisciplinary degree.While at the University of Minnesota she worked with International students, and headed the International Executive Cmte of IVCF, and was on the executive board.
She returned to graduate school at the School of Public Health, Maternal Child Health. Her research relates to parenting children with disabilities.
As a teacher, licensed in California and Minnesota, she initially taught third grade and joined the professional organization. She has taught in public and private schools, in corrections as well as home schooling. She's taught K -12, parenting classes for new parents, childbirth classes, and health education classes for adults. Rae worked part time while raising her children.
Rae returned to school to become an RN, and then a licensed and nationally boarded nurse practitioner. She worked for Meshbesher and Spence in a class action suit against the Dalkon Shield--which was won against a company that produced an IUD that caused many deaths. She has worked as a health care clinical manager--also in women's health, in family practice, in home health with disabled children and in a nursing home with seniors. She worked as a case manager for a large health care corporation in workman's compensation, and urgent/emergent care. Part of that effort included doing a survey on outcomes of back surgery, with other team members-- published for the Department of Labor and Industry.
Rae set up a volunteer group of 40 people who taught English, health care, job searches to new Americans, and set up a basic English program and nursery for children of parents who were studying with that group. She became an advocate for families that needed help with education, health care, childbirth, legal issues, missing children; and she was aided by Gretchen Quie in an effort to sell handcrafted items made by the students to get them started in business.
Rae, as a volunteer, taught Speech Communication and Leadership Skills to young people in corrections. She worked in Toastmaster's International as a mentor, President and Area Governor. She also volunteered in her children's schools as a room Mom, ski instructor, volleyball, basketball and Little League coach. She tutored in Math and Reading and was a Junior Great Books facilitator, school dance chaperone and Prom Mom, working with many parent volunteers to make Prom memorable.
Hobbies include skiing, writing, swimming, walking, ballroom and swing dancing. Rae also enjoys family times, and heads up family reunions. Although now single again the family is important to Rae. "We all get together for events like birthdays and bar-b-ques, and special events like graduations, recitals and sporting events. Rae helps her Mom now, and recently lost her father, a WWII veteran.
"Running for the Senate means I learn from "the people..." how they want things done at the Capitol. The people are supposed to be in charge in America....I plan to keep "the people..." actively involved in Minnesota decisions. They're the boss and they pay for all we do. Legislators are elected to serve the people. Referendums are needed to keep legislators in line," Rae states with a smile.
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