Julissa Reynoso

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Julissa Reynoso

Julissa Reynoso (born January 1975 in Salcedo , Dominican Republic ) is an American diplomat of Dominican origin.

biography

Reynoso, who came to the United States with her family in 1982 and initially lived in New York's South Bronx , earned a JD from Columbia University School of Law and previously a BA in Government from Harvard University and a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge . The lawyer worked for the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP with a focus on International Arbitration and Antitrust Law and has published extensively in both specialist journals and the general press.

After she was Deputy Director in the Office of Accountability at the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) from 2006 , she became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America, the Caribbean and Cuba in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the State Department on November 16, 2009 United States .

After being nominated by Barack Obama on October 17, 2011, she has been the US Ambassador to Uruguay since 2012 . This makes her the first Dominican woman in such a position and currently (as of May 2012) the youngest US ambassador within the US diplomatic corps . She began her service in Uruguay on May 3, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Julissa Reynoso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) from www.state.gov, accessed May 3, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.state.gov
  2. ↑ Arribó a Uruguay nueva embajadora estadounidense - Bienvenida al show (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy from May 3, 2012, accessed on May 3, 2012
  3. ↑ Julissa Reynoso becomes first Dominican to occupy US ambassador post ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) at www.dominicantoday.com from April 2, 2012, accessed on May 3, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dominicantoday.com
personal data
SURNAME Reynoso, Julissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Salcedo , Dominican Republic