Maria Cardona Biography
Maria Cardona is a is an American with Spanish ancestry. she is a Democratic strategist and CNN/CNN en Español political contributor. She as well works at the Dewey Square Group “an advocacy and communications organization” and also the founder of Mestizoinovations.
Maria Cardona Age
Maria Cardona was born on 12th November 1966, in Bogota, Colombia, and immigrated to the United States at the age of two. she is 52 years of age as of now.
Maria Cardona Family
Maria Cardona was born to Columbian parents and belongs to Columbian ethnicity. her family moved to the United States when she was two years old and settled in Leesburg, Florida
Maria Cardona Husband|Maria Cardona Husband Bryan Weaver
Maria Cardona is happily married to her husband Bryan Weaver who is also a long-time community activist, a former Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) and also communications professional with more than 15 years of experience in progressive causes. The couple are said to be living happily.
Maria Cardona Children
The couple has two children together Sebastian is 6yrs and Maya Luna of 4yrs. The family resides in Adams Morgan, Washington DC.
Maria Cardona Education
She got enrolled at Duke University and later graduated.
Maria Cardona Career
Maria Cardona started off her career after her graduation. She worked as the as Deputy Press Secretary to Secretary Ronald H. Brown. She later became the Press Secretary to Secretaries William Daley and Mickey Kantor after the death of Ronald H. Brown on the airplane crash. In 1997, she received the Department of Commerce’s Silver Medal Award for Meritorious Federal Service.
She worked for the United States Department of Justice’s Immigration and Neutralization Service (INS) being the Director of Communications as from1998 to 2001 and from 2001 to 2003 as Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee till 2003. She then joined the New Democratic Network as the Vice President for Media Relations.
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Maria Cardona later joined in Dewey Square Group as its principal and she launched the Latinovations to advocate on Latino issues and helping the Latino or Hispanic community to support their positions, brands and products in 2005. while at DSG, she worked as Senior Adviser to Hillary Clinton for Presidential Campaign.
In October 2011 for 2012 She joined CNN Network in the presidential election season as a political contributor. She is a board member of different organizations that work s for Latino issues such as Hoops Sagrado, New America Media, Citizenship Counts, Poder Pac, Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino.
Maria Cardona Net Worth
She has held significant positions in various governmental organizations. She must be having a huge and generous amount of salary from her job and have accumulated good net worth. She has also been listed as one of the nation’s Top 50 Most Influential Latinos in 2012. She is as well an active political contributor to the CNN Network.
Maria Cardona Political
Maria Cardona knows Bill and Hillary well. She worked as a Senior Advisor to the ‘Hillary Clinton for President’ Campaign. She as well helped spearhead Hillary’s Hispanic Outreach team, having her message reaching Latinos nationwide.
During Clinton campaign fell under, She was called by Barack Obama’s team called on Cardona to message to both English and Spanish TV. She agreed to the call and she was instrumental in helping Obama win 67% of the Latino vote compared with John McCain’s 31%.
The time President Obama and the other candidates were making strategies for November 6, Cardona’s voice will be served as a sentinel along the way. Being a mother of two children, who she’s raising in a completely bilingual household, She believed that Latina moms should be concerned with the kind of economy they will be leaving for their children in the decades to come.
She says “It’s clear that Latina moms are going to be a valuable constituency in the 2012 elections, their advancements as entrepreneurs, in higher education, and in the workforce, are just some of the reasons politicians and businesses are paying attention,”
She continued saying “Latina moms are making the decisions at home, though the men are not going to admit it, they are,” Today, she added saying that Latinas are finding their voices in places like Twitter, Facebook, and Mamiverse. Having that voice is half the battle. she added saying that Public policy experts are listening to you. It’s no longer about speaking at you through ads. It’s now a two-way conversation.
Maria Cardona Awards
She is listed as Top 50 Most Influential Latinos 2012. Hispanic Business Magazine as well listed her in their lists of 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the country of the year.
Maria Cardona Interview
She accused of torturing and murdering her infant son known as “Baby Lollipops,” while on trial and remained silent before the Miami juries. during her third trial, She decided to tell her version of events to jurors, taking the stand Monday to weep and insisted she never laid a finger on her 3-year-old son, Lazaro Figueroa, who was battered and bloodied body was discovered in the bushes of a Miami Beach home in 1990.
Cardona then laid the blame on her former lover, Olivia Gonzalez, whom she claimed having whisked the boy away to stay in some unknown home with a mysterious “friend” for two months before his death where he presumably met his demise. she said while crying “Olivia Gonzalez Mendoza killed my son! Olivia Gonzalez Mendoza killed my son!”
While testifying in a case that has riveted South Florida for more than a quarter of a century, She cast herself as the victim, broke and unable to care for her three children, have including Lazaro. She added saying her only choice was to live with the jealous and possessive Gonzalez, who had tormented them and forced her into a sexual relationship.
She said “Anytime she would touch me, I would become nauseous,” Cardona claimed. “I had a relationship with her because of the necessity of having a roof over my head with my children.”
She could not explain why she told police detectives back in 1990 that she had given Lazaro to a mysterious woman in a restaurant. she said “I don’t really even know why I said that lie,” Cardona admitted. she later acknowledged she told the police on an audio-recorded statement that the boy hit his head after a fall from a bed and she discarded his body in Miami Beach.
She claimed she was only telling police what they wanted to hear, hoping they would not take away her remaining children. she said “Doesn’t it say on the tape that you hand-delivered and dumped the child on North Bay Road,” prosecutor Reid Rubin asked, showing jurors a transcript of her interview with police.
“It says that on the tape — but it’s not true,” Cardona protested.
Hours of heated cross-examination often devolved into Cardona delivering long and breathless screeds, repeatedly calling Gonzalez a “monster” and “murderer” – while loudly arguing with Rubin. Five different Spanish-language translators tried to keep up as the testimony devolved into near shouting, frequent objections, and several sidebars. At one point, Cardona defiantly told jurors she had twice been sent to Death Row but was fighting to clear her name.
Cardona took the stand one week after Miami-Dade prosecutors began presenting testimony to jurors in her third trial for murder and aggravated child abuse. The search for Lazaro’s identity and killer captivated South Florida in 1990. Detectives called him Baby Lollipops because of the design on his T-shirt.
she was sent to Death Row, being the first woman to be sentenced to die for killing her own child. The Florida Supreme Court then overturned the conviction because prosecutors failed to turn over statements made by Gonzalez, Cardona’s lover and the star witness in the trial.
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