1. Alessandra Rose Biaggi was born on May 20,1986 and is an American politician from the state of New York.
24 Facts About Alessandra Biaggi
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Alessandra Biaggi was first elected to the State Senate in 2018 after she defeated incumbent Sen.
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Alessandra Biaggi chaired the New York State Senate Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance.
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In February 2022, Alessandra Biaggi announced her candidacy for New York's 3rd congressional district after incumbent Democratic Rep.
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Alessandra Biaggi was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and is Italian-American.
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Alessandra Biaggi's great-grandparents had immigrated to the United States from Italy, and she is the fourth generation of her family to live in her district.
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Alessandra Biaggi grew up first in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and when she was eight years old she moved with her family to Pelham, New York.
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Alessandra Biaggi graduated from Pelham Memorial High School, where Alessandra Biaggi was a cheerleader.
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Alessandra Biaggi subsequently transferred to and graduated from Fordham Law School in 2012, where she was a member of the Fordham Law Review.
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Alessandra Biaggi was the first woman from her family to graduate from law school.
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Alessandra Biaggi interned in the office of US Congressman Joseph Crowley after college, and while in law school with the Brooklyn District Attorney Rackets Bureau and the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York Public Corruption and Appellate Bureaus.
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Alessandra Biaggi then worked from 2014 to 2015 at her first job as a lawyer, as Assistant General Counsel for New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's Office of Storm Recovery.
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From May 2015 to December 2016, during the campaign for the 2016 US presidential election, Alessandra Biaggi served as Deputy National Operations Director for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.
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Alessandra Biaggi oversaw a staff of 200, and a budget of $500 million.
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From April to December 2017, Alessandra Biaggi served as counsel in Governor Cuomo's Counsel's Office, and as a member of the governor's executive clemency team.
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Alessandra Biaggi served as chair of the Senate Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance.
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Alessandra Biaggi focused on institutional reform of Congress, of the Supreme Court, and institutions.
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Alessandra Biaggi ran in 2018 in the primary for the Democratic nomination for New York State Senate in District 34.
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Alessandra Biaggi ran against powerful longtime incumbent Jeffrey D Klein, the number two Democrat in the NY Senate and the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference.
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On November 6,2018, Alessandra Biaggi defeated Klein and Republican Richard Ribustello and was elected to the New York State Senate.
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On September 24,2021, Alessandra Biaggi co-wrote a letter to US Senator Maria Cantwell with eight other New York State Senators, requesting that the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation engage in oversight of the United States Center for SafeSport, and step in to ensure that SafeSport is adequately conducting investigations.
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In 2022, Alessandra Biaggi received criticism over her treatment of her staff.
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On July 22,2019, in Tarrytown, New York, Alessandra Biaggi married Nathaniel Koloc.
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Alessandra Biaggi is a management consultant whom she met in 2015, and who worked on the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.