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Minicast-Part 3 of #MujeresLead series, Kristie Hernandez from East Los to East Coast

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4.5749 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this third installment of our #WomensHistoryMonth series #MujeresLead, we hear from Kristie Hernandez, who just returned home to East LA after two years in the Obama Administration. Ms.Hernandez has over a decade of experience in government affairs, most recently as an appointee of President Obama where she spent time in the Department of Defense and later as Deputy Director of Congressional Relations at the Peace Corps. What makes this interview so special is getting to hear from Kristie's mother, Rita Hernandez, who celebrates the great accomplishments of her daughter who was able to "volar!" Please share this podcast with the hashtag #trypod #supportpocpodcasts #supportbrownpodcasts

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Okay, tamarindos, it's okay.

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We're doing part three of my Mujarez lead series.

0:37.1

This is Brenda Gonzalez, because again, it's still March Women's History Month,

0:40.9

and we thought it would be really fun to interview some amazing Mujeres that I know that I'm lucky to know

0:45.5

because I think you all should know them too.

0:47.6

So I'm very excited because I have two amazing Mujeres.

0:50.6

So first I have Christy Hernandez and her lovely mother, Rita. So I'm so excited. Rita,

0:57.5

tell me your last name again. And then this same. Why did I even doubt that? Okay, so here we go.

1:03.1

We're going to interview. And the reason why I'm excited to have Christy's because she's back in

1:08.8

LA, but she spent the last two years in Washington, D.C.,

1:12.2

and I've known her for a few years now, and I saw her think about going to D.C., and I saw that

1:18.5

glimmer in her eye, and she worked hard at it, and she made it happen. We were there for all her

1:24.1

going away parties, and then all of her visits when she came back and I got to

1:28.4

visit her several times while in D.C. and now she's back permanently and we kept saying from East Los

1:34.9

to the East Coast. So she's from East L.A. and she's going to tell us a little bit more about her

1:40.3

journey to the White House. So tell me, what did it mean to you the last two years to be an

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