PLP 09 Profile: Janet Oleszek

Name:  Janet Sloate Oleszek               
Age:   61
Born:  Sacramento, California
Current Digs: Fairfax County
Occupation: Former Fairfax County School Board Member
Favorite part about the job? Crafting educational policies that correlate directly to student success.
Your first job ever? Legislative Aide to Democratic Congressman John E. Moss (Calif-3).
Favorite books? Congress and It’s Members;  Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process;  Governing;  Interest Group Ratings.
Favorite movie?  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Comfort food?  Grits
What's in your car CD player right now (or favorites on your iPod)?  Modern Times by Bob Dylan.
Next journey?  Paris
Favorite Virginia vacation spot?  The Northern Neck
First political memory? Watching my parents watch the McCarthy hearings on television.
Whom do you admire and why?  Hillary Clinton, because she not only cracked but also broke the glass ceiling.
Best advice you ever got?  Listen carefully and bear witness judiciously.
If you could have dinner with any one currently living, whom would it be and why?  Rahm Emmanuel – enough said!
Describe a perfect day. 75 degrees, sunny, sandy beach, scuba diving and volley ball during the day, and clam bake over a bonfire in the evening.
One thing most people might be surprised to learn about you?   I raced cars in college and was the first woman to win a trophy in the men’s division.
Ambition, political or otherwise?  To win election to public office again.