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A native of Orange , New Jersey , Hartke grew up in Manhattan in the 1950s and 60s , then settled in California in the 1980s . Came in its doors unable to write an English sentence , from Abkhazia , Rwanda , Guanajuato , South Jersey , and came out knowing more about pizza than a Bedouin knows about sand . After completing her degree , Vinita accepted a position as a research analyst at Mathematica Policy Research in Princeton , New Jersey , where she worked extensively on a Social Security Administration project evaluating services to improve return to work efforts for people with disabilities and other under-served populations . She holds an MA in education from Seton Hall University , South Orange , New Jersey , United States ; has teaching credentials in two states ; and holds a number of specialist credentials as well . Delaware , New Jersey , Georgia , Connecticut , Maryland , and South Carolina would quickly ratify without proposing a declaration of rights . A checklist of printed , non-New Jersey maps is available at the New Jersey Room reference desk . In one block of Newark , New Jersey , 20 families rushed out of their houses with wet towels over their faces as protection from Martian poison gas , according to a front-page article in the New York Times the next day .