Patricia Campos Medina's guest appearances

Patricia Campos Medina

The Backgrounder

Lush Left Media

Debra Vizzi

Anthony Giglio

Paul Reiser

Paula Poundstone

James Hughes

Tom Franklin

Buzz Aldrin

Anna Quindlen

Matt Katz

Monica Miller

Brian Thompson

Jamie Fox

Brendan Gill

Katie Meyler

Steve Adubato

OwlTail

Patricia Campos Medina is President of LUPE PAC, an organization aimed at getting more Hispanic women into elected office and keeping Latina incumbents in office, regardless of their political party. The mission of LUPE, which stands for Latinas United For Political Empowerment, is largely fueled by the fact that only one of New Jersey’s 565 mayors is Latina (Perth Amboy’s Wilda Diaz - Episode 59), and only 10 of the State Legislature’s 120 seats are held by Latinas. However, there’s more to Campos Medina than her current position. In this episode, she tells the story of how she came to the United States from El Salvador at the age of 14 not knowing English, and then four years later she was accepted at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Today, Campos Medina is one of the leading labor and political leaders in New Jersey and the nation, having helped the campaigns of President Barack Obama, former Governor Jon Corzine, and former Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Later this month, she will be in Philadelphia as a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

<p>Patricia Campos Medina is President of LUPE PAC, an organization aimed at getting more Hispanic women into elected office and keeping Latina incumbents in office, regardless of their political party. The mission of LUPE, which stands for Latinas United For Political Empowerment, is largely fueled by the fact that only one of New Jersey’s 565 mayors is Latina (Perth Amboy’s Wilda Diaz - Episode 59), and only 10 of the State Legislature’s 120 seats are held by Latinas. However, there’s more to Campos Medina than her current position. In this episode, she tells the story of how she came to the United States from El Salvador at the age of 14 not knowing English, and then four years later she was accepted at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Today, Campos Medina is one of the leading labor and political leaders in New Jersey and the nation, having helped the campaigns of President Barack Obama, former Governor Jon Corzine, and former Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Later this month, she will be in Philadelphia as a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention.</p>

Episode 72: Patricia Campos Medina