Hey, it's Alicia. Real quick. If you're listening to this episode on the day it launches,

then tomorrow, Tuesday, November 6th, is Election Day. Election Day is for me the most exciting day of the year.

And so this is just a friendly reminder, a nudge, if you will, that you matter, your vote matters.

And I hope that tomorrow you'll exercise your right to vote.

Hello there, welcome back to Latina to Latina.

On this podcast, I talk to Latinas on the rise.

My guest today, Maria Christina Gonzalez Nogera, known to her friends as Mac,

has gone from being a beauty industry executive to working in the White House as Michelle Obama's communications director.

And then, back again.

It's a unique career, one that leaves you asking, what will she do next?

So let's ask her.

Maria, Christina, Gonzales, Nogeta, how does that person become Mac?

Because my best friend from college, Gigi, decided to call me Mac.

I think at a bar in Boston, and she just said, Mac, Eso suena cool.

It is cool.

I like it.

I embrace it. I embrace it.

I also embrace, as I said, Christinaita.

That's what my family calls me.

But then there are also people call you MC.

You have many aliases.

I do.

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