Inna Vernikova lived and went to school in Chernivtsi until she was 12, after which she emigrated with her family to the United States.
Inna Vernikov, a 37-year-old native of Chernivtsi, won the elections to the municipal council in New York.
Voice of America reports.
Successful marriage and immigration lawyer Inna Vernikova won the 48th arrondissement to become a New York City Councilor. Inna ran for the Republican MP.
In the last presidential election, she voted for Donald Trump, while New Yorkers support mostly Democrats.
Who is Inna Vernikova
Inna Vernikova lived and went to school in Chernivtsi until she was 12, after which she emigrated with her family to USA.
According to detaly.co.il, Inna Vernikova studied at the 41st school in Chernivtsi, the first comprehensive Jewish school in Ukraine.
After arriving in the United States, Inna studied at Baruch College. At Florida State School, Inna served as president of the Jewish Law Students' Association and persuaded her university to reschedule the traditional graduation ceremony from Saturday to Sunday.
She says she dreamed of becoming a lawyer since childhood.
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“Every time I saw some kind of injustice, I had the feeling that I had to fix it,” the newly minted deputy notes.
According to her, she made the decision to run after how in her car on the Brooklyn Bridge she was attacked by hooligans during the Black Lives Matter protest.
Now the woman must stop her legal practice. MPs in New York are paid money, and Inna says she will now earn significantly less. However, this does not scare her, because Vernikova assures that she went into politics not for her own enrichment, but in order to change the city for the better. During the pandemic, she worked as a volunteer in a local canteen.
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