PERSON: Alicia Menendez

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Alicia Jacobsen Menendez (/əˈliːsiə/ ə-Lee-see-ə; born July 2, 1983) is an American television commentator, host and writer. She is the author of the book The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are (2019), and is an anchor for MSNBC. From 2020 to 2024, she was host of American Voices with Alicia Menendez on Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC. She is also a contributing editor at Bustle and host of its Latina to Latina podcast. Formerly, she was a correspondent on the PBS show Amanpour & Company and the host of Come Here and Say That on Fusion. Prior to that she was a host and producer at HuffPost Live. She is the daughter of United States Senator Bob Menendez.

Menendez grew up in Union City, New Jersey, the daughter of United States Senator Bob Menendez and Jane Jacobsen, a teacher. Her father is a first-generation American of Cuban ancestry and her mother is of German, Norwegian, and Irish ancestry. She graduated from Harvard College in 2005. She was raised Catholic. At Harvard University, Menendez’s senior honors thesis on women’s social capital drew the attention of U.S. News & World Report and The New York Times. In 2005, The Harvard Crimson named Menendez one of the 15 most interesting members of the class of 2005 and she was selected to deliver her undergraduate commencement address.

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