Paula Xanthopoulou

Paula Xanthopoulou was born and educated in Stockton, California, attending the University of the Pacific where she majored in International Relations and won the Thomas O. Boren A...view morePaula Xanthopoulou was born and educated in Stockton, California, attending the University of the Pacific where she majored in International Relations and won the Thomas O. Boren Award (Outstanding Senior in Journalism). She spent ten years as a teacher and administrator at the American Farm School in Thessaloniki, Greece -- followed by consulting and working for non-profit organizations when she returned to the U.S. and a 6-year stint managing opera singers for her own company in New York City. Paula was very active politically in New York, and has been involved in a myriad of community and political efforts since moving to Miami in 1994. She headed the Miami Shores Brockway Memorial Library Building Fund, worked with SAVE Dade, and served for nine years on the Miami-Dade County Commission for Women. She also served two terms as president of the National Women's Political Caucus of Florida (2001-2005), and on NWPC’s National Board. During that time, Paula worked on the Janet Reno for Florida Governor campaign and later served as Deputy Campaign Manager on the Carol Moseley Braun for President campaign based in Chicago. In 2002 she was a Miami-Dade “In the Company of Women” honoree for her work and was honored with the NWPC/FL 2005 “Elaine Gordon Leadership Award.” In 2007, her essay “Equal Representation: Common Denominator, Common Cause,” was published in Women Moving Forward, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Paula Xanthopoulou continues to be an advocate for the creation of a real power base for women by electing many more women, especially to Congress. Paula also publishes and maintains equalrepresentation.org as a hub for strategies like “Every OPEN SEAT a Woman’s Seat,” and related issues/information..view less