Caroline Casagrande was born on November 21,1976 and is an attorney and former American government official and political appointee in the administration of President Donald J Trump who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Academic Programs at the US Department of State overseeing global public diplomacy programs.
20 Facts About Caroline Casagrande
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Caroline Casagrande is the youngest woman assembly member ever elected in New Jersey.
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Caroline Casagrande was born in Point Pleasant, and grew up in nearby Spring Lake.
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Caroline Casagrande graduated from Red Bank Catholic High School, in Red Bank, New Jersey.
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Caroline Casagrande was elected as Undergraduate Student Government President, where she worked to reduce the cost of student transportation around campus, improve student health care services, and protect students from dramatic tuition increases.
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Caroline Casagrande is a double-alumni of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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Caroline Casagrande was an American Council for Young Political Leaders delegate to Nepal in 2009.
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In 2015, Caroline Casagrande was awarded the ACYPL fellowship to the East-West Center to study India with parliamentarians from Asia.
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Caroline Casagrande has served as municipal attorney to Manalapan Township and special counsel to Fair Haven.
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In 2007, Caroline Casagrande ran on the Republican ticket for New Jersey State Assemblywoman of the 12th district alongside Declan O'Scanlon.
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Caroline Casagrande thus became the youngest woman to ever be elected to the New Jersey General Assembly.
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Caroline Casagrande served in the Assembly on the Appropriations Committee and the Women and Children Committee.
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In 2011 Caroline Casagrande was redistricted to the 11th Legislative District where she sought re-election along with Senator Jennifer Beck, who was shifted out of the 12th district, and Assembly member Mary Pat Angelini.
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Caroline Casagrande served in various leadership positions within the Republican Caucus - eventually rising to Deputy Republican Leader.
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Caroline Casagrande served as a Republican Commissioner on the New Jersey Redistricting Commission, which was charged with redrawing the lines of the State's congressional districts following the 2010 United States census.
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Caroline Casagrande lost her 2015 bid for re-election to Democratic challengers Joann Downey and Eric Houghtaling.
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Caroline Casagrande finished fourth among the four major party candidates behind Houghtaling, Downey and her Republican running mate, Mary Pat Angelini.
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Caroline Casagrande was sworn into the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Academic Programs in September 2018 with the responsibility of shaping policy across the interagency and stewarding resources in excess of $400 million.
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Caroline Casagrande was a Visiting Associate of the Rutgers-Eagleton Institute of Politics until 2019.
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In 2018, Caroline Casagrande was featured in a Rutgers television commercial about training women running for public office.