bio

Mary Amore, Lee’s much beloved maternal grandmother, was born in Italy and immigrated to the United States at the height of the Great Depression. Lee will
never forget her grandmother’s stories of the struggle and loss the family endured. Her grandmother was a member of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union (ILGWU) for more than thirty years. It was union wages that paid for Lee’s Harvard education. Lee is a strong supporter of unions because of
the prominent role the union played in her family and in her life.

Membership:
Lee has been a dues paying member of a labor union for 12 years (SAG). She represents three generations and 60 years of union membership.
Her mother was a member of the teacher's union (NEA) and her grandmother (ILGWU). Collectively these three generations represent more than 55 years of
union membership. Lee a member of the Town of Greenwich Democratic Committee and a sustaining member of the Junior League of Greenwich, CT.

Employment History:
Presently Lee is a substitute teacher for the Stamford Public Schools and Vice President of the African Sustainable Protein Project, a charity dedicated to
providing protein (via chicken and egg cultivation) to needy African children. She is the author of two novels:” What About the Dead?” a science fiction, young
adult novel, and “Hedge Fund Mistress” a mainstream novel about two hedge fund managers and three women in Greenwich, CT.

She worked as a computer science teacher for the Boston Public Schools and later for the Greek Archdiocese in New York City. In 1990 she began work as a
software engineer at Magnavox in Fort Wayne, Indiana and embarked on a defense contracting career. A career that moved her around the country to many
Army installations. For nine years Lee specialized in graphical interfaces, specifically the coding and testing of Field Artillery. Some of her projects include:
AFATDS, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Palladin, Tacfire, and ALPS. That career dried up in 1999 with one act of Congress that allowed in the H1B visa holders
in the country.

Family History:
Lee's father Paul Whitnum was born in the United Kingdom in 1920. He was a pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Ten years after the war, he took
a job at the Bank of Montreal in Canada and later transferred down to the New York Wall Street branch. He worked there for 35 years. It was at the Bank of
Montreal that he met Lee’s mother, the former Nancy Amore, and fell head-over-heels in love. Lee’s mother eventually became a public school teacher, an
occupation she held for many years.