Alejandra “Ali” Campoverdi looks like your typical cover girl.

She’s svelte, well put together and drop-dead gorgeous. But that’s where the similarities to the vast majority of her pin-up counterparts ends. This one time Maxim girl is a former White House staffer and graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of government. And she’s running for congress in California’s 34th district.

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Campoverdi, 37, appeared in the pages of Maxim in 2004 while she was an undergrad at USC. After graduating from Harvard, the Mexican beauty went on to join then-senator Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and was later hired by his administration as the first-ever White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media.

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While her brief stint as a lingerie model for Maxim has come up before during her political career, as well as immediately after announcing her congressional bid, she’s hardly side-stepped the issue.

“I’m proud of the mosaic of experiences that make me who I am,” Campoverdi wrote in a recent essay in Cosmopolitan. “My life experiences have forged me into a fighter and that’s why I decided that I won’t let others’ boxes stop me from doing what needs to be done…”

Campoverdi’s run will begin April 4th with her district’s primary election.

Published by rsarlat

Rick is a freelance writer based in Reading, Pa, one hour west of Philadelphia. He's covered hard news and sports for a variety of websites and print publications over the years, first cutting his teeth as a newshound for the Temple University student newspaper.

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