Her role in the campaign:
"It's really making sure that the secretary's vision, her policy agenda, and her record is resonating in Latino communities across the country. That entails doing national interviews, but making sure that we're reaching the small local radio stations, small local TV stations, and small local print outlets."
Her story:
"My dad [journalist Jorge Ramos] is Mexican. The main reason he came to the United States is because of the censorship that wouldn't allow him to do his job as a journalist. My mom is Cuban, and her family came to Miami because of the same thing. My grandfather from my mom's side is a journalist, too, so they had to leave the Castro regime because they didn't have freedom of speech. That was me growing up, right? It's always about advancing equality and the voices of those that are never heard."
"I was born in Miami, but I grew up in Spain. Something that really impacted me was I came to Spain after the dictatorship, so it was post [Francisco] Franco. It was a very liberal environment. I think it was being young in Spain and having that liberty to express yourself, and also my parents' family, that naturally drove me to politics."
Her reaction to Donald Trump kicking her dad out of a press conference in August 2015:
"That was the one day that I took off. He was in Iowa, and I was out of the office, and everyone kept texting me 'Wow, did you see him?' My dad texted me right after it happened, he said 'I'm OK.' I'm like what do you mean? And then I started hearing everything and seeing everything, but I was so proud of him."
"The Trump effect is a real thing. His narrative is creating a very palpable hatred in our communities. The secretary has talked about this publicly: there are kids in school that are chanting, 'build a wall,' 'speak English.' There is a rise of hatred."
How she stays connected to her Latino roots on long campaign days:
"If I'm having a bad day, I turn around and Karely [Hernández] is there, Sammy [Olivares] is there, and it feels like home. Having that sense of home in the workplace is incredible and uncommon. And my mom and my grandma and my dad are always FaceTiming me."
