ALEJANDRA CAMPOVERDI is an author, nationally recognized women’s health advocate, and former White House aide to President Barack Obama. She produced and appeared in the groundbreaking PBS documentary Inheritance, named one of the “best documentaries of 2020” by Elle. She also founded the Latinos & BRCA awareness initiative in partnership with Penn Medicine’s Basser Center for BRCA, which is the first awareness campaign on the BRCA gene mutation that targets Latinos and offers Spanish-language educational materials. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and graduated cum laude from the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. Campoverdi currently serves on the boards of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; the Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino; and the California Community Foundation. First Gen: A Memoir, is her debut book.