27 Facts About Angie Paccione

In 2019 Colorado Governor Jared Polis appointed Angie Paccione to be the executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education.

Angie Paccione was born in the South Bronx in New York City to a single mother; she is biracial, with an English-Irish birth father and African-American mother.

When she was ten years old, Angie Paccione took the name of her step father, Angie Paccione.

Angie Paccione attended Stanford for five years; during that time, she played four years of college basketball, red-shirting during her junior year.

Angie Paccione graduated in 1983 with a bachelor's degree and honors in political science and completed requirements for a degree in psychology as well.

In 1985, Angie Paccione moved to Colorado, where she worked at Excelsior Youth Center, a residential treatment center for troubled girls, for two years before earning her teaching license from the University of Denver.

In 1992, Angie Paccione declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and all debts were ultimately resolved.

Angie Paccione was required to repay all of the student loan and settled that debt in 1993.

In 1994, Angie Paccione began graduate work in education at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado; she worked with Project Promise, a teacher-preparation program of excellence, rising to become the program's associate director in 1998, co-director in 2001, and director in 2002.

An instructor and then an assistant professor of teacher education at Colorado State, Angie Paccione supervised student teachers and taught coursework in diversity, educational technology, curriculum development, communication, and philosophy of education.

Angie Paccione was named to the team representing the US at the inaugural William Jones Cup competition in Taipei, Taiwan.

In subsequent years, the teams would be primarily college age players, but in the inaugural event, eight of the twelve players, including Angie Paccione, were in high school.

Briefly seeking the Democratic Congressional nomination in 2002, Angie Paccione stepped aside in favor of Stan Matsunaka, and then sought the state legislative seat being vacated by Rep.

Angie Paccione lost the coin toss but ran for election anyway, ultimately defeating Chisesi in the Democratic primary with 56 percent of the vote.

Angie Paccione defeated Republican Kirk Brush by roughly 700 votes, or about 4 percentage points, and was sworn in during January 2003 as a member of the minority party in a Republican-controlled legislature.

Angie Paccione was re-elected to a second term in 2004 by a wide margin, defeating Republican Ed Hayes.

Angie Paccione rose to become Majority Caucus Chair in 2005 after the Colorado Democratic Party gained control of the assembly.

In 2005, after a series of alcohol-related deaths among college students in Colorado, Angie Paccione sponsored legislation to both increase the penalties for distributing alcohol to those under 21 years of age, to ban alcohol inhalation machines, and to provide immunity to those who seek medical assistance in cases of alcohol poisoning.

Angie Paccione had voted on several occasions to allow illegal immigrants who graduate from Colorado schools to receive in-state college tuition benefits, votes she was criticized for by Musgrave.

The Angie Paccione campaign denied any knowledge of the action and the activist who left the flier was charged but acquitted of criminal use of a noxious substance.

Angie Paccione joined him during a highly publicized photo opportunity in which Schiavo hand-delivered a letter critical of Musgrave to her Congressional office in Loveland.

All told, Angie Paccione's campaign raised and spent nearly $2 million.

In May 2007, Angie Paccione filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission and began raising money for a second congressional run.

Angie Paccione faced Eric Eidsness, who had joined the Democratic Party, and Betsy Markey, a former aide to US Senator Ken Salazar.

In September 2007 despite her fundraising lead, Angie Paccione announced her withdrawal from the Congressional race in order to accept a position with Pathways to Leadership, a business consulting firm, and announced that she would return money raised for her Congressional campaign back to contributors.

Angie Paccione had worked with Pathways to Leadership since January 2007, and cited the expanded international travel and the opportunity to impact lives associated with her leadership consulting work as a factor in decision to withdraw from the Congressional race.

In 2012, Angie Paccione worked as a Director with Verus Global, Inc.