Corinne Bouchoux
Corinne Bouchoux was born on the 5th January, 1964 and is a historian and a French politician who became senator for the European Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) Green Party of Maine-et-Loire in the French Senate in 2011.
Political Career
Apart from being elected senator for the EELV in 2011, Bouchoux is also the Secretary of the Senate Committee for Monitoring the Implementation of Laws, a member of the Committee on Culture, Education and Communication, a member of the Parliamentarian Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices, and a member of the Delegation of Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women. The support to citizenship for students, the fight against homophobia and sexism are Bouchoux's commitments, both in professional and activist ways. Corinne Bouchoux, openly homosexual, considers her claim of homosexuality as a militant act addressed to young people "who do not have enough positive portrayals of homosexuality", and ultimately attempts to show them that being homosexual does not mean they cannot pursue a political and public career.
Education
Bouchoux is a teacher on Economic and Social Sciences, a member of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris and a doctor in History (University of Angers). Associate in Science and Life Saving, later called Economic Alternatives, she taught in secondary schools and she was a teacher of Contemporary History at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris between the years 1989 and 2002. Furthermore, from 1997 to 2007 she was senior staff of the Ministry of National Education. In September 2007, she became the research engineer responsible for the management of the formation and the student life within Agrocampus Ouest, within the National Institute of Horticulture and Landscape in the University of Angers. This public Institute is linked to the Ministry of Agriculture where engineers in horticulture and landscape receive their formation and education. Corinne Bouchoux decided to leave the Institute following her election as senator in 2011. On the other hand, she collaborates with Musea, the Virtual Museum of the History of Women and Gender, created by the University of Angers, where she came to design four exhibitions: Citizen Bonnevial Marie (1841-1918), Rose Valland on the front of the Art, Family Planning: 50 years posters, exhibition devoted to the French Movement for Family Planning, and finally an exposition of posters and photos about Yvette Roudy. Nowadays she works mainly on the following subjects: the attractiveness of regions, economic intelligence and its teaching in France for 20 years, transforming the way we produce and the impact on the skills of actors and territories, focusing on a gender perspective.
