ALUMNUS WINS $100K GRANT 5 Alan Lovewell MAIEP ’10 reels in support
AN ECONOMIC AMBASSADOR 13 Alumna helps Minnesota compete globally.
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Big Hire, High Stakes Jorge Silva mpa ’11 manages Hispanic media outreach for the Clinton campaign.
to studying Russian and Japanese—and continued with those languages through her undergraduate years at the University of Bologna. Her major? Linguistics, naturally. Irene enrolled at the Institute in 2008. “It looked like it offered very good
the fastest growing group in the American electorate is Hispanic voters, and many pundits believe the results of the 2016 presidential election may rest in their hands. In this political environment, the national media viewed the hiring of Jorge Silva as director of Hispanic media for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign as a sign of the high stakes involved. Jorge, who is credited with developing and implementating Hispanic media strategies in several Western states as the senior strategist for the Senate Democratic Caucus, previously served as senior adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “Secretary Clinton is a strong supporter of comprehensive immigration reform,” says Jorge, who currently commutes between the Clinton campaign offices in Brooklyn and Washington D.C., where he lives with his wife, Elizabeth Romanoff Silva mpa ’11. He is excited to take on the rigors of a presidential campaign. Jorge is the campaign’s official spokesperson for Spanish-language audiences, and a large part of his job is to help the press and public understand complicated policy issues. “One of the big challenges is appealing to Hispanic communities in both languages,” he says, and the
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Voice of Nations At the UN, every nation has a voice—and sometimes it belongs to alumna Sarah Irene maci ’10. you could say Sarah Irene’s path to the United Nations began early in life. Raised in a bilingual—English and Italian—household, she also learned French at a young age, having lived in Geneva for several years. “I never considered French a foreign language,” she recalls. When Irene reached junior high school, she took