Michelle Vallejo Educational Background • Studied Political Science and History at Columbia University Career • Was a business owner and co-founded two organizations that focused on community leadership and minority women in business • Helped her father run a family-owned business • Supports affordable and high quality healthcare, protecting and expanding social security and medicare, protecting reproductive rights, and affordable education; does not support the state of the current immigration system Personal Information • Comes from a family of farm workers, immigrants, and entrepreneurs • Has a husband named Rich and they have one son together named Ricardo