Jennifer Miller
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"Jennifer Miller" (born 1961) is an American circus entertainer, writer, and professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She has lived as a woman with a beard for most of her life. She is a juggling/juggler and fire eater. Miller lives in New York City.

Miller is the youngest daughter of two Jewish-Religious conversion/turned-Quaker professors and she grew up in Connecticut and California. Miller became involved in the performing arts and theater while in high school, and was involved in the downtown dance scene in New York in the early 1980s. In her career as a performing artist, which has spanned over 20 years, she has performed with numerous choreographers and dancers, several circus companies, and in the Coney Island SideShow.

In 1989, she co-founded the acclaimed NYC political performance troupe Circus Amok and has directed it ever since. She was also a focus of Tami Gold's documentary Juggling Gender and Circus Amok has been the subject of numerous documentary films. Miller is widely recognized for her work and is the recipient of awards including the Obie Award/Obie, Bessie, BAX 10, and most recently the Ethyl Eichelberger Award. She currently teaches in New York at Pratt Institute, and has taught at several universities including UCLA, Cal Arts, Scripps College, and New York University/NYU.

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After the law was announced, we started getting calls from women who wanted to know what would happen if they got married, ... You can't rule out a sex offender coercing the mother. They tend to target single moms to have access to their kids. This isn't good.

Mrs. Chormanski was collecting money, then we thought of a bake sale, ... We also had lemonade and Tang.

There are approximately 90 in-home daycares in the county, three licensed daycare facilities, 10 preschools and 11 elementary or secondary schools, ... When you consider that a sex offender is not allowed to reside within a 2,000-foot radius of these locations (the length of 6.5 football fields) that really eliminates most of the town.

This law will certainly not prevent those cases of sexual abuse from occurring, ... Most sex offenders are not individuals who snatch kids off the street.

What's happening now is that they are marrying these guys to get around the law. That's creating some concern, ... Whereas the children had been protected originally, now a lot of these sex offenders are becoming their stepdads.

It's hard. I have to come back and find my family. It's more than hard. Hard is not the word for it.

Whereas the children had been protected originally, now a lot of these sex offenders are becoming their stepdads.

She's very energetic, excited and enthusiastic. She has us right where we need to be, and it will be a smooth transition. There's such a sense of unity on this team.