Unfiltered: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo at West University and Bayou Blue Democrats joint meeting. Source, John Barrett When I came back to Houston in 2018, after living in the Boston area for many years and a year abroad in South Asia, I made sure to register to vote and happily cast my lot for Lina Hidalgo, a young woman who was ready to take on the Republican machine and the business-as-usual approach to governance in the nation’s third most populous city. It would be a mistake to gloss over what the County has accomplished under her guidance and it is more than a little startling that upon thinking about it, her career is in many ways just beginning. Born in Colombia, Judge Hidalgo spent her youth in Peru and Mexico before her family moved to Houston when she was fifteen. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in political science in 2013. That year., Lina became a U.S. citizen.(1) She received received the Omidyar Network Postgraduate Fellowship "to work with an inter...