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A Most Valuable Representative

Diane Russell  was surprised by her recent honor as Most Valuable State Representative in 2011 given by The Nation magazine.   “I didn’t believe it,” says Russell, a Democrat representing Portland’s Munjoy Hill neighborhood.  “I was tagged in an article by a local blogger and thought ‘how nice of her to mention me.’ It wasn’t until I clicked further and further into the article that I realized that it was a national honor given by The Nation, and not just a mention by a Maine blogger.” 

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Allison M. Ouellet

Allison is from Addison, Maine, in Washington County.  She is a graduate of the University of Maine.  At UMaine she earned a BA in Anthropology.  She left the state of Maine for two years to attend the University of Denver where she earned her MA in Anthropology.  Upon graduation she started working at the Maine Sea Coast Mission’s EdGE Program in the fall of 2005.  She is currently the program’s assistant director.

Allison now lives in Cherryfield, Maine with her husband in a house they are renovating.  She enjoys being involved in her community.  She is on the board of the The Next Step Domestic Violence Project and is an alumnus of both the Washington County Leadership Institute and Leadership Maine. 

She is a crafter but is most fiendish about knitting.

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