Yvanna Cancela was born on 1987 and is an American politician who served as a member of the Nevada Senate for the 10th district from 2017 to 2021.
10 Facts About Yvanna Cancela
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Yvanna Cancela joined the Biden administration on January 20,2021.
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Yvanna Cancela graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications in 2010.
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Yvanna Cancela then moved to Nevada to work on Reid's 2010 reelection campaign.
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Yvanna Cancela served as the political director for the Culinary Workers Union and as executive director of the Immigrant Workers Citizenship Project.
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In 2017, Yvanna Cancela was chosen to succeed Ruben Kihuen, who was elected to the United States House of Representatives, in the Nevada Senate.
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Yvanna Cancela became the first Latina to serve in the Nevada Senate.
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Yvanna Cancela was selected as one of seventeen speakers to jointly deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
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Yvanna Cancela was chosen to serve as one of the convention's parliamentarians.
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On January 12,2021, Yvanna Cancela announced her resignation in order to join the incoming administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the United States Department of Health and Human Services as the deputy director of intergovernmental affairs.