Mitzi Jayne Dean is a British-

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non-profit administrator and politician, who was elected to the

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in the 2017 provincial election.NDP's Mitzi Dean cruises to comfortable victory in Esquimalt-Metchosin

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May 9, 2017. She represents the electoral district of Esquimalt-Metchosin as a member of the

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caucus. She is currently Minister for the Ministry of Children and Family Development. Dean was appointed as the province's Parliamentary Secretary of the newly created Gender Equity Secretariat, in the Ministry of Finance, in February 2018 by Premier John Horgan. Prior to her election, Dean was appointed the executive director for Pacific Centre Family Services in 2007, having moved to Victoria from

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in 2005. In the UK, Dean served in a fundraising role as a national development manager for children's services with the

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. She was born in Sevenoaks, England and worked in fundraising and development in organizations offering child protection social work and community-based social services across

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for more than 20 years. In 2014, Dean received a certificate in executive study for six months of online part-time study at Royal Roads University.Pacific Centre Family Services
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Electoral record

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