PERSON: Cristina Tzintzun Ramirez

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Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez (born Cristina Costello; 1982) is an American labor organizer and writer. From August 12, 2019 until March 3, 2020 Tzintzún Ramirez was a potential challenger to incumbent United States Senator John Cornyn in the 2020 United States Senate election in Texas as part of a 11-person Democratic primary, in which she placed third.

Her mother, Ana Tzintzún, is from a rural agricultural community in Michoacán, Mexico, and her father, Tom Costello, is an American who came to live in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s. Tzintzún’s original surname was Costello, which she changed to Tzintzún as a teenager. She was born and raised in Ohio, where her parents operated a fair-trade Mexican jewelry business. The family business required that the Tzintzún family live and travel to Mexico throughout her early life. Her parents, both progressive, encouraged their children to participate in various causes, especially those involving the Latino immigrant community. In high school, Tzintzún began organizing and working with newly-arrived Mexican immigrants in Ohio. She graduated from University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in 2006 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Latin American studies.

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