The Detroit-born Latinx rights activist was the longest-serving director of the White House Domestic Policy Council
By Steve Friess and Illustration By Rachel Idzerda/ Hour Detroit, May 10, 2021
The president’s speech laying out trillions of dollars in new economic proposals plays to voters’ warm feelings toward federal aid in the coronavirus pandemic.
By Jim Tankersley / The New York Times, April 28, 2021
Read MoreCecilia Muñoz discusses the Biden Administration’s response to the recent surge of arrivals and how conversations about the border have changed during the past thirty years.
By Isaac Chotiner / The New Yorker, April 6, 2021
Read MoreNPR's Rachel Martin talks to Cecilia Muñoz, who headed President Obama's Domestic Policy Council and worked on President Biden's transition team, about immigration challenges.
With Rachel Martin / NPR Morning Edition, April 5, 2021
Read MoreLast week, President Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to take charge of the influx of immigrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border—an issue that has long been a political lightning rod but has become especially contentious over the last several weeks.
By Maggie McGrath / Forbes, April 1, 2021
Read MoreKnow Your Value and Forbes Magazine highlight the women over 50 pushing for immigration reform, including Rep. Veronica Escobar and Cecilia Muñoz.
MSNBC - Morning Joe, April 1, 2021
Read More“If you are looking for some insight into what it’s like working to push your policy priorities through the politics and bureaucracy of a presidential administration, I urge you to read More Than Ready, by Cecilia Muñoz. She was an immigration policy advocate for 20 years before joining President Obama’s White House. Her book, written as a guide for women of color, is also a master class in principled, inclusive leadership in government — including some bracing models of what not to do. She names names. Pay attention, and don’t be one of those guys.”
By Tamara Cofman Wittes / Brookings, January 19, 2021
Read MoreThe best business books that came out while we were all distracted by the headlines this spring.
By Jessica Stillman / Inc., July 1, 2020
Read MoreIt’s no secret that women are at a significant disadvantage in the workforce. And it’s certainly no secret that women of color are at an even greater disadvantage in terms of the gender pay gap, lack of opportunity and discrimination.
By Erica Nahmad / BeLatina, April 30, 2020
Read More"We are all playing mind games with ourselves," Muñoz says. "Part of how we get there is for women like us to first persuade ourselves that we are ready."
By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News, April 7, 2020
Read MoreA 60 Minutes investigation has found the separations that dominated headlines this summer began earlier and were greater in number than the Trump administration admits.
With Scott Pelley / 60 Minutes, November 26, 2018
Read MoreSteve Inskeep talks to former Obama administration official Cecilia Munoz, who untangles the backstory to the report, and offers her thoughts about the current policy of the Trump administration.
With Steve Inskeep / NPR Morning Edition, May 29, 2018
Read MorePresident Obama is putting out a message of economic revitalization, starting with the middle class. Cecilia Munoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, explains why the executive branch is pushing the message now. She speaks with guest host Celeste Headleee.
With Celeste Headleee / NPR Tell Me More, July 25, 2013
Read MoreI believe that a little outrage can take you a long way.
I remember the exact moment when I discovered outrage as a kind of fuel. It was about 1980. I was 17, the daughter of Bolivian immigrants growing up in suburban Detroit. After a dinner table conversation with my family about the wars going on in Central America and the involvement of the United States (my country by birth and my parents' country by choice), a good friend said the thing that set me off.
NPR Morning Edition, September 26, 2005
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