• Office Sought: Representative, Connecticut (3)
• Birth Date: March 2, 1943
• Occupation: Political Adviser
• Religion: Catholic
• Web site: http://www.house.gov/delauro

Education

• Columbia University, MA
• Marymount College, BA

Rosa L. DeLauro was born in New Haven, Conn., where she still resides. She received a bachelor's degree from Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., in 1964, and spent her junior year at the London School of Economics. She received a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University in 1966.

During the 1960s, she was an anti-poverty worker. From 1976 to 1977, she was executive assistant to New Haven Mayor Frank Logue. She served as his development administrator from 1977 to 1979.

She was chief of staff to Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd from 1981 to 1987. She also managed the Democrat's 1980 campaign.

She was executive director of Countdown '87, an organization established to lobby Congress to end military aid to the rebel forces in Nicaragua, from 1987 to 1988.

She was the executive director of EMILY's List, a political action committee that raises money for women who support abortion rights and run for political office.

DeLauro was first elected to the U.S. House in 1990.

She and her husband, Stanley Greenberg, have three grown children.