Published: 2018-12-13
Hispanic American political right activist Maria Teresa Kumar is a CEO of leading national civic engagement organization, Voto Latino. Her organization empowers the Latino youth. Due to her work in the Latino community, she has been able to carve her name in the lists of 100 most influential Hispanics in Business.
She is also a political commentator on MSNBC and has worked with several organizations like US House of Representatives and Council on Foreign Relations.
Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar is a married woman. Her husband, Raj Kumar, is a half-Indian who founded the media platform Devex. Like Maria, he is a graduate of Harvard University, and according to his Devex profile, he has ventured over 50 countries to promote the Devex community.
The couple celebrates their wedding anniversary each year on 23 May. During their anniversary in 2018, Maria showcased their picture on Twitter, where the twosome jolted with the rapture of joy.
Maria and the New Jersey native Raj have been gratified with two delightful children, a son, and a daughter. They embraced their first child, a daughter named Lucia Mercedes Kumar in July 2012. A couple of years later, the pair welcomed their second bundle of joy, a son named Eduardo Kumar. Lucia and her little brother Eduardo both like to read the story collection of Monica Brown's Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match .
The high-spirited family of four are living merrily in Washington, DC.
Maria, age 44, assembles the net worth from her career as a political right activist and political commentator. According to Paysa.com, MSNBC host draws an average salary of $52,029 per year and their annual earnings ranges between $54,644 to $57,263. Since 2009, Maria is working at MSNBC as a political commentator and is a CEO of Voto Latino.
Before founding civic engagement organization Voto Latino in November 2004, Maria was a regional director of LawMedia and worked as an associate director for The Advisory Board Company. She is a former Senior Legislative Aide of the US House of Representatives and fulfilled her responsibilities from 1997 to 1999.
Born on Bogota, Colombia in 1974, Maria Teresa Kumar has her birthday on 31 January. The political rights activist grew up in Sonoma, California with her Colombian-American family. When Maria was at the age of 12, she stepped to Washington for the first time and set her future goal to reside there.
Maria holds American nationality and carries Hispanic-American ethnicity. The Emmy nominated political activist stands at a decent height and can speak three languages fluently (English, French, and Spanish). She received education from the University of California and graduated with a master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University.
As per wiki, she is a daughter of immigrant parents where her father moved to the United States in 1978. Maria and her mother became the official citizen of the United States in 1983.