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María Teresa Kumar
María Teresa Kumar


María Teresa Kumar is the founding president and CEO of Voto Latino. Under her leadership, Voto Latino has registered over a quarter million voters. Kumar was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1974, emigrating to the United States with her family when she was four years old and growing up in Sonoma, California. She received a Bachelor of Arts in international relations from the University of California, Davis and a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Between degrees, she worked as […]
Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch


Dana Loesch is a talk show host and political commentator who served as a spokesperson for the National Rifle Association from 2017 to 2019. Loesch was born on September 28, 1978, in Missouri. She attended St. Louis Community College at Meramec and Webster University, but did not graduate. After leaving college, Loesch wrote investigative news articles for St. Louis Magazine and began a website about her life as a homeschooling mom that ran as a weekly column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, she launched […]
Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce


Clare Boothe Luce served as U.S. ambassador to Italy from 1953 to 1956, the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. She also served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947. Luce was born March 10, 1903, in New York City. Her original ambition was to become an actress and she briefly attended a school of the theater in New York City. She was also active in the suffrage movement as a young woman. She married George Tuttle Brokaw, a New […]
Meghan McCain
Meghan McCain


Meghan McCain is a television personality, columnist, and author. She was co-host of "The View," an ABC News contributor and political analyst, from 2017-2021. She is the daughter of U.S. senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain. McCain was born on October 23, 1984, in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her bachelor's degree in art history from Columbia University. Originally intending to became a music journalist, McCain completed internships at Newsweek and “Saturday Night Live” after college. During her father’s 2008 presidential campaign, she wrote a blog about her experiences on […]
Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi


Narges Mohammadi is a journalist, human rights advocate, and the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.” Mohammadi was born on April 21, 1972, in Zanjan, Iran. She earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Imam Khomeini International University. In college, she wrote articles for the student newspaper in support of women’s rights and was a member of a political student group. After graduation, she worked as a professional engineer and […]
Susan Molinari
Susan Molinari


Susan Molinari was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 1997, representing New York's 13th and 14th districts. Molinari was born March 27, 1958, in Staten Island, New York. Her father was Republican politician Guy Molinari and her grandfather was Republican politician S. Robert Molinari. Molinari graduated from SUNY Albany (now called the University at Albany, The State University of New York). She served on the New York City Council from 1986 to 1990. In 1990, Molinari won a special election to represent New York's 14th […]
Michele Norris
Michele Norris


Michele Norris is an American journalist and leader of the Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America. She is a former host of the National Public Radio news program "All Things Considered," the first African American female host for NPR. Since 2019, she has been an opinion columnist with The Washington Post. Norris was born September 7, 1961. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in electrical engineering, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis with a degree in […]
Soledad O’Brien
Soledad O'Brien


Soledad O'Brien is a broadcast journalist, executive producer, and philanthropist. She is the chairman of Starfish Media Group, a 360-media production company and distributor that she begin in 2013. O'Brien was born September 19, 1966, in St. James, New York. She is a graduate of Harvard University. From 2003 to 2013, O'Brien was an anchor and special correspondent for CNN. Most recently, she was anchor of "Starting Point." From 2007 to 2012, she hosted "In America" documentaries, guest-anchored CNN news shows, and anchored CNN's exit poll coverage during the primaries […]
Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa


Maria Ressa is a Filipino and American journalist and a co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” Ressa was born on Oct. 2, 1963, in Manila, Philippines, and moved with her family to New Jersey when she was 10 years old. She graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in English and certificates in theater and dance. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study political theater at the University […]
Maria Elvira Salazar
Maria Elvira Salazar


Maria Elvira Salazar has served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 27th Congressional District since 2021. Salazar was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She received a Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of Miami and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Salazar has been a news anchor for MEGA TV, Telemundo and CNN español, host of the television show Maria Elvira Live, a senior political correspondent for Telemundo, the Central American bureau chief for Univision, and a White House […]