Alum Features
By Frank Rajkowski
After playing a key role in the campaign to re-elect U.S. Senator Tina Smith last November, Edwin Torres ’16 decided to take a little time off to decide what came next.
With an impressive resume that also includes serving as the National Latino Outreach Director for the presidential campaign of Amy Klobuchar, Smith’s fellow senator from Minnesota, Torres had no shortage of potentially lucrative options.
But when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s office approached him about helping to lead the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Torres couldn’t refuse.
So, since January, the Saint John’s University graduate has been working 10 to 12 hours a day – often seven days a week – as the state’s COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Director, helping connect Minnesotans with the shots that will soon hopefully help bring the ongoing global pandemic to an end.