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What a week it’s been for Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis.
On Tuesday, she took the stage for two panels at the United Nations climate change conference alongside President Joe Biden’s national climate advisor, governors and business executives — just four days after Gov. Gavin Newsom abruptly cancelled his trip to Glasgow, Scotland and announced that Kounalakis would lead the California delegation in his place.
That’s not a lot of time to prepare for a high-stakes international trip — and the weather didn’t make things any easier.
In conversations with Kounalakis and her chief of staff on Tuesday, I learned that their plans to travel by train from London to Glasgow on Sunday were derailed — quite literally — by a storm-uprooted tree knocking out the power lines for the only direct rail link between the two cities. So they made the 7-hour drive instead.
Kounalakis, who plans to leave Glasgow on Thursday, told me that her schedule is materially the same as w
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Congratulations to alumna Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis ’85 on her election to Lieutenant Governor of California! If you missed the article on Eleni in the Spring 2018 issue, read it here:
We know Troubadours are women who change the world; we had a chance to catch up with Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis ’85 to hear where her post-St. Francis journey has taken her and what lessons from her alma mater she has taken on the journey.
Always a woman who wanted to experience the world, Eleni spent her sophomore year at a boarding school in Lugano, Switzerland before embarking on her Troubadour education. While transferring schools mid-way through high school can seem intimidating, Eleni found her St. Francis home to be warm and welcoming and affectionately remembers the many friends she made while a student here. Troubies who remember her debate performance as Walter Mondale*, alongside Claire Chatfield as Geraldine Ferraro, will not be surprised that Eleni is currently campaigning t
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When California voters go to the polls in November, they will choose between two Democrats to replace Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. One of the candidates fryst vatten State Sen. Ed Hernandez, an optometrist from Los Angeles County. His opponent fryst vatten Eleni Kounalakis, a former real estate developer and US ambassador to Hungary for President Barack Obama.
If she wins, Kounalakis will be the first woman to become California’s lieutenant governor, a position that fryst vatten often considered a stepping stone to higher office. (Newsom fryst vatten expected to become the state’s next governor.) The daughter of Greek immigrants, she often refers to the fact that her grandmother was illiterate and that she is the first individ in her family to attend college. As a real estate developer in Sacramento, Kounalakis’ father was steeped in politics and became a big don