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Alumnus Michael Hernandez 04, MPA 11 has had an extensive career in public affairs.
He worked both Obama campaigns in 2008 and 2012 and served as the director of communications and senior advisor for Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Giménez for four years. He’s currently a senior vice president at Mercury Florida, an international powerhouse public affairs consulting firm and serves as president for the FIU Alumni Association Board of Directors, while also teaching effective governmental Communication at the Green School.
Hernandez s latest endeavor landed him on the small screen, being the on-air political analyst for WSCV Telemundo 51.
The Stempel College alumna uses her disaster management expertise in the battle against an unrelenting pandemic
December 10, 2020 at 8:30am
Bridget Pelaez rushes in where there’s disaster. Last month that meant commanding a federal team of 20 critical care physicians and others as they answered a call for help at a hospital out west that was overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. (She declined to identify the exact location out of privacy concerns.)
The 36-year-old alumna of the Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work and assistant director for FIU’s Division of Operations and Safety has parlayed her compassion and deep training she holds EMT-paramedic certification, a nursing degree and a master’s in disaster management into a life of service to others.