Jolene Ivey

Jolene Ivey is an American politician who represents the 47th Legislative District in the Maryland House of Delegates. Delegate Ivey was born of mixed parents but raised by her African American father and stepmother in Washington, D.C. [] She attended LaSalle Elementary School and the Bertie Backus Jr. High in northeast D.C. She graduated High Point High School and then Towson University with a B.A. in mass communication in 1982. She got her masters degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in 1992. She later used her degrees to earn a job as Co-Host of "Say Baltimore," at WMAR-TV in 1983. She was a writer and producer for WMAR from 1984 to 1988. In 1988, she served as then-Congressman Benjamin Cardin's press secretary. She...