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Career: Rock Your Resume & Cover Letter
May 15, 2013
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Listen, chicas: everyone knows that getting a job isn’t easy these days. You’re graduating from college (or are newly unemployed) and there is no job in sight. You’ve got to update your resume and write a cover letter–¡yikes!–maybe for the Read More...
Next Gen Feminista Friday: Mother’s Day Lesson from Mami
May 10, 2013
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My mother sat on my bed and listened patiently as I described every. single. detail. I was fifteen, burrowed under my comforter, and surrounded by tissues when I heard a light tapping on the door. “Hey, you okay?” My ears perked up when I Read More...
UPDATE: Republished in HuffPo! Republican Reformation: ¿GOP Out, In, or No-reach?
April 30, 2013
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Via tweets, emails, Republican friends, or smoke signals, I am getting the message that the GOP is more inclusive, indeed it is a new day. Why? In November of 2012, Republicans lost the White House largely because they lost Latinos and single women voters who rejected its Read More...
Career: Julie Chávez Rodríguez to Latinas, “¡Sí Se Puede!”
March 28, 2013
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When you are an ambitious and/or successful Latina, you are a role model no matter what. That’s because despite our consolidation of power as an economic and political bloc, a gap remains, especially in terms of educational and career achievement. Simply Read More...
A Latina Watches the State of the Union at the White House
February 13, 2013
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Washington, DC I was one a few dozen people invited to an exclusive State of the Union Social at the White House with an “enhanced” speech. Staffers, interns, and techies made graphics for the TV monitor that illustrated with data Read More...
Univision Candidate Forum Big Loser? Not the Prez, Not the Guv, But the Commish on Presidential Debates
September 24, 2012
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Your humble Tweeter-in-Chief was glued to her computer screen to watch the Univision Candidates Forum and tweet out to the universo what Governor Romney on Wednesday followed by President Obama had to say. ¡Momento! Aren’t there normally four debates, one each Read More...
DNC 2012: President Obama Asks for Your Vote
September 10, 2012
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When Barack Obama took the stage at the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC), he accepted his re-nomination for President, making the case for why Americans should re-elect him. The signature Obama rhetoric that reached for the sky gave way to a speech grounded in Read More...
DNC 2012: (Re)-Introducing Barack Obama
September 10, 2012
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Charlotte, North Carolina If voters had any doubt about Barack Obama, the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina seeks to cast them away. Speaker after speaker has been tasked with personalizing the President, standing up for his character, and arguing Read More...
