Manuela Hernandez is a proud UNA-NCA 2019 Graduate Fellow. She is currently a first-tour Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She will work for the Consular Affairs section for the duration of two years. Manuela just completed her intensive Portuguese language training at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia to prepare for her job overseas.
Manuela is a 2017 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellow and prior to joining the State Department, she completed the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program at Georgetown University in May 2019. Prior to Georgetown, she worked in Munich, Germany for Kiron Open Higher Education, a non-profit that helps refugees access higher education through digital solutions.
Originally from Florida, Manuela graduated from the University of Florida with majors in Economics and International Studies (with a focus on Europe). She has previously interned for the State Department at the U.S. Mission to the EU in Brussels and at the U.S. Consulate in Düsseldorf. Manuela has also interned at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency as well as the U.S. Congress; she consulted for the World Bank at the office of Agriculture Global Practice in the East Asia & Pacific Region.
April 13, 2020
