Nationality, plays a very important role in evaluating a prospective partner’s professional history and international experience. According to research, nearly half of the marriages in the United States are interracial or of a multicultural background, making race or ethnicity a more secondary concern than at any other time in history. Today, at least a quarter of American marriages involve at least two people with a different ethnic background. As such, ethnicity becomes an important factor in evaluating an individual’s professional and personal history.
Environmental attorney and advocate, Adriana Espinoza have become the first-ever senior policy advisor to the City of New York concerning strategic and environmental issues, including energy and climate change, gender and diversity, and environmental justice. Ms. Espinoza has a Master’s degree from the University of Michigan Law School, specializing in Social Justice, and she serves on the boards of the Earth Solutions Institute and the Environmental Working Group. Her work as an advisory board for Change to Think, Grow and Protect was featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Business Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Reader, Hispanic USA, Salt Lake City News, and Education Week among many others. In 2021, she served as a Policy Analyst for the National Commission on Environmental Protection under then Secretary of Energy James W.xonach.
Ms. Espinoza has also served as a member of the boards of directors of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Audubon Society, The National Parks Conservation Association, National Hispanic Leadership Institute, American Forests, League of Women in Sports and Recreation, Environmental Defense, and Women in Environmental Health. Ms. Espinoza has also been invited to serve on the Steering Committee of the National Commission on Environmental Rights Action and has written extensively on the rights of minorities in the workplace. She is currently Executive Director of a grass-roots environmental nonprofit called La Vida Latino in Washington, DC, where she serves on the steering committee. Adriana Espinoza has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and is a proud mother of three children.