Escaping the shadows of larger-than-life leaders

Alessandra Biaggi

Originally published in The Riverdale Press

"The fact that I even grew up around a table where people were talking about politics regularly since I was like so tiny made it so normal for me,” Biaggi said. “I cannot over-emphasize how important that was, when things become really normal for you. So much of where we have gone wrong in society is that we don’t make it normal for people to talk about government and politics, even though it is literally the thing that has the most impact on our lives,”