Paola has over a decade of experience in progressive politics, campaigning, and storytelling. Before joining Families Belong Together, she was the Communications Director for the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Western Hemisphere, where she worked on reproductive health and rights across Latin America. She is a veteran of the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama presidential campaigns, has a Master’s Degree in Foreign Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Economics from the University of Maryland. Paola is a native Spanish speaker, a fluent French speaker, is conversational in Portuguese and Italian, and knows a bit of Russian. She has traveled to over 30 countries, is a proud first generation Uruguayan-American, and is an objectively terrible but avid CrossFitter.
