NJ Ass't Secretary of State to Speak at the State Theatre

The State Theatre hosts Breakfast with Carol Cronheim, Assistant Secretary of State on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 from 7:30am-9:30am. This free networking and breakfast event will take place at the State Theatre (15 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick). This event is free of charge, but advance registration requested. To RSVP, contact Leah Anglum at 732-247-7200, ext. 512 or langlum@statetheatrenj.org. 

Featured guest speaker Carol Cronheim is currently Assistant Secretary of State for the Christie Administration. Her responsibilities include overseeing all of the Cultural Divisions in the Department, including the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey Cultural Trust, the New Jersey Historical Commission, the State Museum, and the Archives.

Cronheim’s previous government experience includes serving in the Whitman Administration as Deputy Chief of Policy and Planning, the senior advisor for cultural affairs, as a speechwriter, and as Acting Secretary of State from July 1998 to January 1999. She also served on the boards of the State Capitol Joint Management Commission and the New Jersey Cultural Trust. She was the first Legislative Director to New Jersey Assemblyman Leonard Lance (R-23), who is now in the U.S. Congress. In 1990 and 1991, she served in the Bush Administration on the staffs of the National Endowment for the Arts and the President’s Commission on the Federal Appointment Process. During Governor Thomas H. Kean’s second term, she worked for the New Jersey Department of State and the Governor’s Office of Constituent Relations.

A resident of Lambertville, Dr. Cronheim has a degree in classics from Princeton University, a master’s in politics from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. from the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, also at Rutgers.