Alicia Menendez

ALICIA MENENDEZ is Contributing Editor and Chief Editor of its partner site, DailyGrito.com. Based in Washington, D.C. and a graduate of Harvard College, she joined Jon Corzine’s successful 2005 gubernatorial race and served as a primary surrogate on her father’s successful 2006 bid for the US Senate. Since then, she has worked as Political Outreach Manager for Rock the Vote and Communications Director for Democracia USA. She currently works as a Senior Advisor at center-left think tank NDN.

At Harvard, Menendez’s senior honors thesis on women’s social capital drew the attention of US News and World Reports, The New York Times, and The Harvard Crimson, which named Menendez one of the 15 most interesting members of the class of 2005. That same year, Menendez was selected to deliver the undergraduate commencement address.