At ‘We Are Más,’ Evelyn is the initial contact and guide. Her exceptional dynamism, social activism, and creativity yield tangible results for the teams she builds. She has positioned herself as a highly valuable advisor and political strategist in Florida and at the national level. Evelyn is known for creating the 2020 “We Are Más” Guide with the support of the strategists it includes. For the past twenty years, Evelyn has advocated for the case of starting early, treating all communities with the dignity they deserve, and always going into the communities.

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She is different from others in her in-depth knowledge of diasporic communities throughout the United States, for her communications skills and a proven track record. In a field where there are new and purported experts, there is no substitute for demonstrated knowledge and experience.

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Evelyn has advised several gubernatorial campaigns, several elections supervisors, and worked with non-profit and civic institutions. In 2020, Pérez-Verdía worked on the presidential campaigns including Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden in messaging/engagement advisory with Hispanics and other exile communities. One of the examples of Evelyn’s vision for activating communities was her donation of the logos of the Con Biden groups to the Joe Biden campaign in 2020.  She often contributes to CNN en Español, Univision, and Telemundo.  Evelyn has been quoted  in the Associated Press, EFE, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, Newsweek, and gives commentary to various reputable international media organizations with her analysis. She is frequently requested to train groups or invited to be a public speaker at conferences. For her, it was an honor to be asked to talk about the importance of storytelling in social media during the U.S. Southern Command 2019’s Public Affairs conference.

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Evelyn Perez-Verdia has also helped bring awareness to the current borderless and massive disinformation campaigns in Spanish. Evelyn was the source who assisted the media in English breaking the story about the private WhatsApp channels in Spanish targeting diaspora communities. Evelyn spent months volunteering to show journalists worldwide how the private channels worked and how they disseminated QAnon conspiracy theories in Spanish during the 2020 presidential campaign. Evelyn continues to monitor anti-vaccination and other conspiracy theories that continue to sow distrust within Latino diaspora communities.  Evelyn grew up in a family of missionaries who helped the deaf in Colombia. Evelyn lives in Florida with her husband and two children, and understands the difference between an Arepa and a Pupusa.