Gloria Montealegre

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Gloria Montealegre is a former television reporter and former deputy press secretary for ex-New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine. She was a longtime television news reporter for New Jersey Network and was the first female on-air reporter for New York's Channel 47, now Telemundo. [1]

She immigrated to the United States from Colombia in the 1960s. [2] She graduated from Dover High School in 1973. [3]

Montealegre was the host of Images/Imagenes, a Latino public affairs show on the former New Jersey Network television station. The show was the longest public service television show on national public television. [4]

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References

  1. Latina Women Expand Political Involvement in the United States | IIP Digital
  2. "Terra - Gloria Montealegre, una vida dedicada a servir a la comunidad latina - Reportajes - Noticias". Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  3. Hall of Fame, Dover High School. Accessed March 21, 2022. "Gloria Montealegre Class of 1973
  4. http://www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/njhric/Sanchez.pdf [ dead link ]