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Maria Cardona is a political <a href="/biography/maria-cardona">strategist</a> and advocate of Democratic public policy with over twenty years of experience in the fields of community affairs, public relations, politics, and government.  She is the <a href="/biography/maria-cardona">principal</a> at the prominent Public affairs and Multicultural practice, Dewey Square Group. Maria Cardona is also a political <a href="/biography/maria-cardona">commentator</a> at CNN and CNN en Español.

Maria Cardona was born on November 12, 1966, and is an American wit h Spanish ancestry. Cardona was born in Bogota, Colombia, and immigrated to the United States at the age of two. She spent the early part of her life in Ohio and later moved to Leesburg, a town in Central Florida. She was brought up by her parents to love her native language and culture. Maria Cardona graduated from Duke University. She is married and lives with her husband, Bryan Weaver, a community activist, and their two children in Washington, D.C.

Maria Cardona worked for the United States Department of Commerce for five years as Deputy Press Secretary to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown">Secretary</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown">Ron Brown</a>. She was also in charge of the press offices for the Department of Commerce. When Secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown">Brown</a> was killed in an airplane crash, Cardona spoke at the press briefing. She then became the Press Secretary for the next two Secretaries of Commerce.  Cardona was also a <a href="/biography/maria-cardona">strategist</a> behind the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.

Maria Cardona went on to become the Director of Communications for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In this role, she was the <a href="/biography/maria-cardona">spokesperson</a> for the government on issues of immigration. Later, she became the Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee and also worked to increase <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Hispanic</a> voting for the New Democratic Network.

Maria Cardona joined the Dewey Square Group as a principal in 2005, helping her corporate clients reach out to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latino</a> community. Cardona leads the Multicultural and Public Affairs practices and founded the Latino Strategies Practice, Latinovations at DSG to better serve the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latino</a> community. Latinovations helps <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latinos</a> deal with major issues they face. She also guides clients on the best practices for building support for their products and brands among the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Hispanic</a> population and offers valuable advice on multicultural campaigns.

Maria Cardona worked for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> during her Democratic primary campaign in 2008, reaching out to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latino</a> voters and speaking on Spanish-language programs as well as on major national television and radio networks. Later, she took on a similar position for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a> once he had won the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

Maria Cardona started her career in journalism by frequently appearing on television networks such as FOX, Telemundo, MSNBC, and Univision as a political contributor. She later signed with CNN to work exclusively as a political contributor during the 2012 election cycle. Cardona was the first Latina Democratic <a href="/biography/maria-cardona">contributor</a> on CNN. Stories she has covered on CNN include “<a href="/biography/donald-trump">Trump</a>'s 'enabler' charge against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton">Clinton</a> won't work,” “What happened to Boy Wonder?”, “GOP Strategist: brokered convention 'highly unlikely',” “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina">Fiorina</a> to appear on 'View' after 'demented' comments,” “Why <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> dominated”, “<a href="/biography/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> fever starting to break,” “Celebrate new day for U.S-Cuba relations,” and “Rubio embodies American Dream, but would deny it to others.”

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During her career as a government official and a <a href="/biography/maria-cardona">journalist</a> Cardona had mentors such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown">Commerce Secretary</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown">Ron Brown</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McCurry_(press_secretary)">Mike McCurry</a>, the Communications Director at the Democratic National Committee. Maria Cardona also considers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> as one of her mentors.

Maria Cardona is actively involved in various organizations that function for the improvement of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latino</a> people and Latina women in particular. Among these are Hoops Sagrado, Citizenship Counts, Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, New America Media and the National Hispana Leadership Institute.

Hoops Sagrado is a Washington, D.C.-based youth leadership and development nonprofit organization that gives at-risk youth from the Washington area the opportunity to spend a month during the summer in the highlands of Guatemala. There, they learn about the Guatemalan culture, teach their peers basketball skills, develop their sense of self, and gain a new perspective on life.

Citizenship Counts is an organization dedicated to teaching civic education with a curriculum demonstrating the value and responsibilities of citizenship, promoting pride in American citizenship, and encouraging students to be involved in their communities.

The Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino is an organization dedicated to creating a museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC that documents and celebrates the lives of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latino Americans</a>. They educate and promote awareness of the initiative, help support legislation, and fundraise for the public share of the future museum, so that all our families can see themselves represented in our nation's capitol.

New America Media is a multimedia ethnic news agency and a coalition of ethnic media. In addition to producing and aggregating news by and for ethnic communities, New America Media also engages in social marketing campaigns, partners with journalism schools across the country, spearheads various youth media programs, and produces a National Directory of Ethnic Media.

The National Hispana Leadership Institute, a national organization based in Washington, D.C., was created in 1987 to address the disparity of representation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latinas</a> in leadership positions by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Glass Ceiling Initiative. This seminal study found that while minorities and women were making substantial gains in entering the workforce, they were not equally represented at the mid- and senior-levels of management in government or corporate sectors. The report found that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latinas</a> were also significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in the nonprofit and political arenas.

Cardona uses her work at CNN, CNN en Espanol, and at these charitable and cultural organizations to help the young <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Hispanics</a> across the country and aid in their social and economic improvement. She was named one of the nation's most influential <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans">Latino</a> persons in 2012.

Maria Cardona recently argued with a conservative guest on CNN regarding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh">Kavanaugh</a> nomination.  The guest was trying to make the case that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh">Judge</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh">Kavanaugh</a> was the real <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh">victim</a> and said that “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Grassley">Senator Grassley</a> is bending over backwards to do it at her timeline, at her venue and time of her decision because that is the only way to be fair to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh">Judge</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh">Kavanaugh</a> and her story.” But Cardona fired back “The Republicans waited almost a year and didn’t even give <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland">Merrick Garland</a> a hearing,” referring to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Obama</a>’s Supreme Court nominee, who the Republicans infamously refused to even meet with…and now they are into ‘hurry up, hurry up, we need to do this now.” Cardona continued “That is hypocritical and not credible and if they don’t do this on a less rushed time line, they will be denigrating and they will be insulting the collective consciousness of millions of American women who have suffered through sexual assault.”

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