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Latinos are not only a major consumer of internet content, but Latinos in the United States consume media predominantly in English. More facts about this growing sector of the U.S. electorate are presented by the Executive Director of Voto Latino.
Named by Hispanic Magazine as one of the top 60 Latina women in Government and Politics, Maria Teresa Petersen is the founding Executive Director of Voto Latino, a youth organization engaging the new generation of Americans in civic participation. Voto Latino launched the first-ever national texting campaign to register voters in 2006 and produced award-winning PSA campaigns reaching millions of American Latinos. Prior to Voto Latino, Petersen founded Petersen Advisory, whose clients included AT&T, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention. She appears as a regular political analyst on MSNBC's Hardball, NPR, CNN EspaÒol, and Fox News. She is a Public Policy International Affairs Fellow, a National Hispana Leadership Institute Fellow, and founding board member of the Latino Leaders Network.
