Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month Keynote: Alejandra Campoverdi

Join Inclusive Excellence, HSI-MSI Initiatives, the Center for Civic Engagement, the Center for Justice and Liberation, Student Success and First Year Experience to warmly welcome our Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month keynote speaker to campus.



Alejandra Campoverdi is a women's health advocate and national bestselling author of FIRST GEN: A Memoir, an unflinching reflection on navigating social mobility as a first generation Latina and the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. 

Described as "part memoir, part manifesto," FIRST GEN recounts Campoverdi's life of contradictory extremes that often comes with the territory of being a “First and Only”: as a child on welfare, the first White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media under President Obama, a Harvard graduate, a gang member’s girlfriend, a candidate for U.S. Congress, and much more.  

 

Campoverdi holds a master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and graduated cum laude from USC. She produced and appeared in the groundbreaking PBS documentary Inheritance and founded the LATINOS & BRCA awareness initiative in partnership with Penn Medicine’s Basser Center for BRCA. Currently, she serves on the boards of the California Community Foundation and Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, and is a Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.



This event is funded by a Massachusetts Higher Education Innovation Fund grant and is free and open to all community members.