Nancy Van Doren, 53: A native of New York City, Van Doren was raised in New York and Cornwall, Conn. She has a bachelor's degree in Humanities and International Affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a master's degree in management from the Hartford Graduate Center, now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She lives in the Ashton Heights neighborhood, and she votes at Clarendon United Methodist Church. She has four children, three at Washington-Lee High and one at Thomas Jefferson Middle School.