What do Rhode Island and Puerto Rico have in common? For Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, there are indeed many things.
“My love affair with Rhode Island started right after I arrived,” Gorbea says in her campaign video for the governorship of the state. “Like my native Puerto Rico, Rhode Island is a small place where people are close and distances aren’t.”
A registered member of the Democratic Party, Gorbea announced last Sunday that she is running for governor of Rhode Island. If she wins, she would become the first Puerto Rican-born governor of a U.S. state.
Gorbea, 53, received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
As NBC News explained, in the late 1990s, Gorbea worked at the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank. She then served as deputy secretary of state from 2002 to 2006, when Matt Brown was secretary of state.
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