Julissa Reynoso

Julissa Reynoso (* January 1975 in Salcedo, Dominican Republic) is an American diplomat Dominican origin.

Biography

Reynoso, who came in 1982 with her ​​family to the U.S. and lived first in New York's South Bronx, earned a JD at Columbia University School of Law and previously a BA in Government at Harvard University and a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. The lawyer was at the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP with a focus on International Arbitration and Antitrust Law and also published extensively in both journals and in the general press.

After she was from 2006 Deputy Director in the Office of Accountability at the New York City Department of Education ( NYCDOE ), it was on 16 November 2009 Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America, the Caribbean and Cuba in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs United states.

She is, after its made ​​by Barack Obama Nomination of 17 November 2011, since 2012 the U.S. ambassador in Uruguay. This makes it the first Dominican in such a position and currently (as of May 2012) youngest U.S. ambassador within the U.S. diplomatic corps '. Your service in Uruguay she went to on May 3, 2012.