From 16-20 September 2024, Jazmine Ulloa travelled through the cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne and Heidelberg to talk about campaign strategies, political communication, fundraising and campaign infrastructure. In a total of 14 events, she reached up to 237 participants, consisting of politicians, NGO representatives, transatlantic experts, company representatives, journalists, students, and other interested parties.
Jazmine Ulloa has a broad range of experience and expertise in the field of election campaign strategies. She gained experience covering the 2020 presidential and congressional elections for The Boston Globe and is currently focusing on Latino voters and underrepresented voices. In 2018, she travelled throughout California, covering close midterm elections and writing about the state’s clashes with the Trump administration over immigration and the border wall.
Jazmine Ulloa began her tour of Germany with an exciting start in Hamburg and Bremen, where she recorded an episode of the international podcast ‘The Trans-Atlanticist’, which deals with immigration and the border as political dynamite. In Hamburg, she spoke with representatives of the Senate Chancellery and participated in a panel discussing the key issues of the U.S. elections, from the power of the National Conventions to the so-called ‘double-haters’ who represent a particularly difficult constituency. In Bremen, she then had the opportunity to talk to around 30 business representatives about her personal experiences during the election campaign. The Carl-Schurz-Deutsch-Amerikanische Club e.V. facilitated this exchange in a relaxed roundtable format.
From there, her journey took her to Cologne, where she not only enlightened pupils at the Königin-Luise-Schule in a lively discussion about election strategies and the role of disinformation, but also delved deeper into the political impact of immigration and the Latino electorate at a public event with the Academy for International Relations NRW. In discussions with Dr Philipp Adorf from the University of Bonn, Ulloa shed light on why this particular group of voters could play a key role in 2024. Highlights of the visit to Cologne also included her meetings with Berivan Aymaz, Vice President of the NRW state parliament, and U.S. Consul Preeti V. Shah.
Ulloa ended her tour in Heidelberg, where she shared the latest insights and developments in the election campaign with around 30 academic and political representatives. A deeper insight into the dynamics of the Latino electorate in the U.S. election campaign was discussed in the podcast ‘Quo Vadis USA’, in which she was a guest. On 20 September, she then held a gripping public event in which, together with Irmintraud Jost from the DAI Heidelberg, she examined the 2024 election year from a transatlantic perspective and gave students and interested parties a unique insight into the significance of this election for the future of US democracy.
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