MONA PASQUIL

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Mona Pasquil

Mona Pasquil, the President of Pasquil Associates & Strategic Partnerships, recently served as Acting Lieutenant Governor of California.  Prior to this appointment, she served as Chief of Staff to former Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi.
For nearly three decades, Pasquil has served as a senior advisor and strategist in numerous state and federal   government offices, political campaigns and private companies. With a hands-on, open-door, can-do leadership style, Pasquil has lent her innovative leadership to presidential, gubernatorial, and local campaigns across the country. She previously served as political director for twice elected California Governor Gray Davis, Deputy CEO for the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, California political director for the Gore/Lieberman campaign, as well as western political director for the White House Office of Political Affairs under President Bill Clinton. Earlier this year, she received a Presidential Citation by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for Pasquil’s pioneering achievement as the first woman, Asian Pacific Islander and Filipino American to occupy the Office of Lieutenant Governor of the State of California.
In addition to working with California's and Washington's heaviest political hitters, she also worked as a strategic consultant for IBM's national state and local government sales team.  A trailblazer for California Filipinas and all Asian Pacific Islanders, she is the founding president and current volunteer of the Asian Pacific Youth Leadership Project of California, an organization dedicated to increasing API involvement in California policy.