News Articles ‘This is very personal to me’: Eleni Kounalakis pushes education at inauguration by Office of Lt. Governor | Jan 8, 2019 THE SACRAMENTO BEE BY AKIRA OLIVIA KUMAMOTO JANUARY 7, 2019 There is no issue more important than education, Eleni Kounalakis told the crowd as she was sworn into office as lieutenant governor Monday. Her grandmother, Katerina, never learned how to read or... LA Times: “Eleni Kounalakis can carve out a meaningful role as lieutenant governor” by Office of Lt. Governor | Nov 12, 2018 Here is a new rags-to-riches American Dream story that’s a little different: A Greek family is forced to share its modest home with enemy Nazi soldiers for three years during World War II. After peace returns, the family’s teenage son bolts to America by himself. He... CBS article “Eleni Kounalakis Wins California’s Lieutenant Governor’s Race” by Office of Lt. Governor | Nov 8, 2018 SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Eleni Kounalakis is California’s new Lieutenant Governor. She beat fellow Democrat Dr. Ed Hernandez to win office. With 97.2 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday morning, Kounalakis was declared the winter with 55.65 percent of the vote.... Ambassador Kounalakis Talks Higher Education by Office of Lt. Governor | Nov 7, 2018 This is video of the conversations with the lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis. The conversations are about the importance of higher education to California's future and how public and private higher education system will help us to meet a particular challenge,... Mother Jones: “She had a ringside seat for an authoritarian leaders rise and now she’s running for office.” by Office of Lt. Governor | Aug 3, 2018 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 is State Sen. Ed Hernandez, an optometrist from Los Angeles County. His opponent is Eleni Kounalakis, a former real... Madam Ambassador, Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties and Democracy in Budapest by Office of Lt. Governor | Jul 3, 2018 In the winter of 2011, divers working on Budapest’s Margaret Bridge discovered the bullet-scarred skeletal remains of at least 20 people, almost certainly Jews executed by Hungarian fascists during World War II. Reading the news on her BlackBerry, U.S Ambassador Eleni... Kounalakis’s New York Times Op-Ed Hungary’s Xenophobic Response – The New York Times by Office of Lt. Governor | Jun 3, 2018 The scene at Budapest’s Keleti train station is returning to normal. Trains are running again, and most of the thousands of desperate people stranded there last week are on their way to other, more hospitable countries in Europe. Hungary, a country rarely in the news,... Next Entries »
‘This is very personal to me’: Eleni Kounalakis pushes education at inauguration by Office of Lt. Governor | Jan 8, 2019 THE SACRAMENTO BEE BY AKIRA OLIVIA KUMAMOTO JANUARY 7, 2019 There is no issue more important than education, Eleni Kounalakis told the crowd as she was sworn into office as lieutenant governor Monday. Her grandmother, Katerina, never learned how to read or...
LA Times: “Eleni Kounalakis can carve out a meaningful role as lieutenant governor” by Office of Lt. Governor | Nov 12, 2018 Here is a new rags-to-riches American Dream story that’s a little different: A Greek family is forced to share its modest home with enemy Nazi soldiers for three years during World War II. After peace returns, the family’s teenage son bolts to America by himself. He...
CBS article “Eleni Kounalakis Wins California’s Lieutenant Governor’s Race” by Office of Lt. Governor | Nov 8, 2018 SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Eleni Kounalakis is California’s new Lieutenant Governor. She beat fellow Democrat Dr. Ed Hernandez to win office. With 97.2 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday morning, Kounalakis was declared the winter with 55.65 percent of the vote....
Ambassador Kounalakis Talks Higher Education by Office of Lt. Governor | Nov 7, 2018 This is video of the conversations with the lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis. The conversations are about the importance of higher education to California's future and how public and private higher education system will help us to meet a particular challenge,...
Mother Jones: “She had a ringside seat for an authoritarian leaders rise and now she’s running for office.” by Office of Lt. Governor | Aug 3, 2018 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 is State Sen. Ed Hernandez, an optometrist from Los Angeles County. His opponent is Eleni Kounalakis, a former real...
Madam Ambassador, Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties and Democracy in Budapest by Office of Lt. Governor | Jul 3, 2018 In the winter of 2011, divers working on Budapest’s Margaret Bridge discovered the bullet-scarred skeletal remains of at least 20 people, almost certainly Jews executed by Hungarian fascists during World War II. Reading the news on her BlackBerry, U.S Ambassador Eleni...
Kounalakis’s New York Times Op-Ed Hungary’s Xenophobic Response – The New York Times by Office of Lt. Governor | Jun 3, 2018 The scene at Budapest’s Keleti train station is returning to normal. Trains are running again, and most of the thousands of desperate people stranded there last week are on their way to other, more hospitable countries in Europe. Hungary, a country rarely in the news,...
