Alejandra Campoverdi

Los Angeles

Founder, The Well Woman Coalition and Contributor at Freelance

Advocate & Author, FIRST GEN • Producer, Inheritance @PBS • former Obama White House • Board @calfund

Featured in: Favicon

yahoo.com

bustle.com Favicon

cosmopolitan.com Favicon

glamour.com Favicon

inquirer.com Favicon

univision.com Favicon

refinery29.com Favicon

wellandgood.com Favicon

usnews.com Favicon

vogue.com + 7 more

Articles

Westside Happenings: Week of Oct. 10, 2024

Oct 10, 2024 | argonautnews.com | Alejandra Campoverdi

Bay Cities Coin ClubOCT. 10The Bay Cities Coin Club’s meetings feature show and tell, auctions, 50/50 raffle and gifts for children. All ages are welcome. Covenant Presbyterian Church, 6323 W. 80th Street, Los Angeles, 6 p.m., free admission, baycitiescoinclub.com, [email protected] PolyrhythmicsOCT. 10Polyrhythmics is an alternative band that covers R&B, progressive jazz and Afrobeat. The band has released six full-length albums, multiple EPs and live releases.
Selena Gomez: «Quando mi sono ammalata, ho detto “Perché, Dio? Perché io?”. Ma la mia missione è aiutare gli altri»

Mar 19, 2024 | vanityfair.it | Alejandra Campoverdi

Questo articolo su Selena Gomez è pubblicata sul numero 13 di Vanity Fair in edicola fino al 26 marzo 2024. «Una parte importante del processo di guarigione consiste nell’aiutare gli altri. Ne sono convinta». Suona abbastanza semplice, ma non lo è affatto. Di solito, ci si arriva dopo aver vissuto l’inimmaginabile.
Selena Gomez Wants to Comfort You──Special Long Interview

Dec 21, 2023 | vogue.co.jp | Alejandra Campoverdi |Emi Kameoka |Yui Sugiyama |Masayo Ugawa |Michael Bailey-Gates

It seems straightforward enough, but I know that what she’s saying is anything but. As a fellow Latina born into my own set of trying circumstances, I understand that such clarity is hard won. It’s usually born of having experienced the unimaginable. Of being cracked open - and softened - by real, unadorned pain. Pain that is sometimes reinforced by being underestimated at every turn, even when you think you’ve already proven yourself.
「人を助けることで、自分自身も大いに癒されると信じています」──セレーナ・ゴメスが語るメンタルヘルス、キャリアと自身のビューティーブランド「Rare Beauty」。スペシャルロングインタビューを全文公開

Dec 21, 2023 | vogue.co.jp | Alejandra Campoverdi |Emi Kameoka |Yui Sugiyama |Masayo Ugawa |Akane Maekawa |Michael Bailey-Gates

嵐を乗り越えて進むセレーナ・ゴメス、その癒し、癒される力とは。「人を助けることで、自分自身もまた大いに癒されると、私は信じています」と、セレーナ・ゴメスは私に語った。そう真摯に語るセリーナは、シンプルな黒のスウェットシャツを纏い、黒のヘッドバンドでラフにとめられたブラウンのショートヘアが、ノーメイクの顔にはらりとかかっている。深読みの余地がないほどシンプルな発言にも思えるが、彼女がこの言葉に込めた意味は、決して単純なものではないことを、私は知っている。彼女と同じくラティーナで、厳しい環境で育ってきた私には、このような境地に至るまでに多くの苦労があったことが手に取るようにわかる。これは、想像もできないほど過酷な体験から生まれた言葉なのだ。それは現実社会の容赦ない痛みによって心をこじ開けられ、打ちのめされた経験だ。その痛みは、あらゆる場面で自身を過小評価されることでさらに強まる。自分の価値を証明できたと思っても、世間はそうは思ってくれない。だがその痛みを感じる自分の弱さをさらけだすと、同じように感じている見ず知らずの人との間に絆が生まれる─これがセレーナと私の共通理解だ。...
Selena Gomez en portada de Vogue México: “No he escrito ni una sola canción triste para este álbum”

Dec 21, 2023 | vogue.mx | Alejandra Campoverdi |Michael Bailey-Gates

‘Una gran parte de sanar es ayudar a los demás. Creo en eso’, me dice Selena Gomez con una humildad que se nota genuina. Lleva una sudadera negra lisa, y su corto cabello castaño apartado de su rostro sin maquillaje con una simple diadema negra. Parece bastante sencillo, pero sé que lo que hay tras esa afirmación, es todo lo contrario. Como otra mujer latina nacida en mi propio conjunto de circunstancias difíciles, entiendo que esa claridad es difícil de lograr.
What First Generation College Students Really Need

Nov 8, 2023 | usnews.com | Alejandra Campoverdi

(Getty Stock)This fall, a whole new cohort of college students is beginning their journey into higher education, with all the excitement and potential that entails. I’ll never forget my first day of freshman orientation in 1997. The University of Southern California campus was in full bloom – cardinal and gold draped on every building, flowering hedge, and human body as far as the eye could see. It was also the day I had a massive panic attack and passed out in the middle of campus.
What Chicana Style Meant (And Still Means) To Me

Sep 15, 2023 | vogue.com | Alejandra Campoverdi

During the summer of ’93, I asked my mom to buy me size 40 pants. At the time I was an awkward and gangly 13-year-old nerd. It wasn’t uncommon for my classmates to call me toothpick. In fact, all I wanted was to fill out my clothes with curves like the other girls and maybe even need an actual bra. But none of that mattered because that was the summer I became enthralled with ’90s Chicana style in Los Angeles and the chola aesthetic in particular.
Alejandra Campoverdi at Harvard Book Store

Sep 14, 2023 | harvard.com | Alejandra Campoverdi

presenting First Gen: A Memoir Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets This event is free; no tickets are required. Harvard Book Store welcomes ALEJANDRA CAMPOVERDI—nationally-recognized women’s health advocate, founder, producer—for a discussion of her new memoir First Gen. Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama, a Harvard graduate, a gang member’s girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She’s...
First Gen: A Memoir

Sep 13, 2023 | community.thriveglobal.com | Alejandra Campoverdi

I was a college freshman the first time I heard the term legacy. I knew the traditional definition of the word- something received from the past-but the way my classmates used it to size each other up was more loaded. So-and-so was a "legacy" because they came from a long line of USC alumni and their family's history with the school probably helped them get in. Before then, I didn't think much about inherited advantage. In fact, I didn't really think about inheritance much at all.
Alejandra Campoverdi - First Gen - with Silvia Foster-Frau - at Conn Ave

Sep 11, 2023 | politics-prose.com | Alejandra Campoverdi

To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balancing act of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you're going. Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama, a gang member's girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She's ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. She's modeled on the pages of Maxim and had a double mastectomy.