Claudia Romo Edelman Quotes

Claudia Romo Edelman (née Claudia González Romo) is a social activist, speaker, and former Mexican-Swiss diplomat. She was Chief of Communications for the Secretary General of the United Nations and ran global advocacy for UNICEF, as well as worked in public relations and marketing for other international organizations, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Refugee Agency and The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Hispanics have never been stronger. However, we’ve also never faced so many political pressures. This community needs to be united and it needs to unite now

This is our time. There is no better time

If you’re Jorge, you pretend to be George, and you leave yourself at home, and you come with someone you don’t know

We produce these bags and give them to the speakers at our summit with the message: ‘Behind every mask, there’s a human

Being able to speak up for the issues that matter is a privilege

Every morning, as I enter the day, I like to outline the three goals I want to achieve

Regardless of where I am or what I’m doing, I always have a daily call with my kids

I want to use my voice to remind us that we are all part of the same human family

For a group that is so powerful to think of themselves as so weak, for a group that is so big to be seen so small? It’s a big thing

Every time I went to a restaurant and there was a waiter who was clearly Latino, and I spoke to him in Spanish, he would try to deny his identity, to suppress it