Tezlyn Figaro Biography
Tezlyn Figaro is an American political consultant and founder of award-winning Tezlyn Figaro Communications Group. She also hosts Straight Shot No Chaser on iHeart Radio and is political analyst for Fox News. As a political consultant, she specializes in public relations, communications and political strategy in national, regional and local print, television and radio platforms.
Tezlyn Figaro Age
Her actual age is unknown but she celebrates her birthday on June 25.
Tezlyn Figaro Nationality
Tezlyn is an American national.
Tezlyn Figaro Ethnicity
She belongs to African American and Latina descent.
Tezlyn Figaro Education
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services from the University of Phoenix. She earned a Master’s Degree in Adult Education from the University of Phoenix.
Tezlyn Figaro Parents
Tezlyn has not revealed the name of her parents but she revealed that they are divorced. She said that at an early age her family experienced the loss of her infant brother.
Tezlyn Figaro Married
Figaro’s marital status is unknown, she has managed to keep her personal life private.
Tezlyn Figaro Communications Group
In 2010 Tezlyn founded the award-winning Tezlyn Figaro Communications Group where she serves as a principal consultant. She provides counsel to the nation’s most influential political, social, and private sector leaders. She is considered a master political strategist with over 20 years of achievements in political consulting, high profile crisis management, federal and state campaign experience, public relations, media training, and strategic communications.
Tezlyn Figaro Podcast
Tezlyn hosts Straight Shot, No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, founded by Radio Hall-of- Famer Charlamagne Tha God on iHeart Media.
Tezlyn Figaro Fox News
Tezlyn serves as a political analyst for Fox News appearing as a weekly commentator. In addition to her weekly commentary, she offers over a decade of appearing in top print, television and digital media platforms with different ideological orientations such as The Breakfast Club, Hot 97, The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, New York Times, Make it Plain on Sirius XM, Sonnies Corner on Sirius XM, CBS, MSNBC, and NBC among others.
Tezlyn Figaro Law School
Tezlyn did not attend any law school but is a certified Florida Supreme Court civil, circuit and appellate conflict resolution mediator and approved trainer.
Tezlyn Figaro Ben Crump
She serves as a senior political consultant for the Ben Crump Law Firm. Her worl includes but is not limited to political strategy and media booking for Attorney Crump on Court TV and other national outlets. Together with Attorney Crump they jointly appear on the nationally syndicated show The Breakfast Club.
She contributed her expertise on George Floyd Case. She also assisted the George Floyd Foundation with the George Floyd Hologram project with Change.org. She also assisted the George Floyd Foundation with the Foundations first scholarship partnership in association with the Eddie Robinson Legacy Scholarship Fund. She provided political strategy and onsite communications messaging during the historic George Floyd Justice in Policing Act 2020 congressional testimony hearing at the United States Congress in Washington, D.C.
She has also been involved in other high-profile national cases including; the Breonna Taylor Case, the Flint Water Crisis, the Orlando Pulse Shooting, the Officer Holtzclaw Rape Case, the Tulsa Monroe Bird Case.
Tezlyn Figaro Bernie Sanders
Since 2016 Tezlyn served as National Racial Justice Director for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign but was fired in 2019. During her tenure with Bernie 2016 her highlights include being solely responsible to organize Flint, Michigan Water Crisis survivors for a private meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders. In turn, the survivor meeting contributed to radio and television ads, campaign speeches & ultimately impacted the overall Michigan outreach strategy which in turn resulted in a historic political upset.
She was fired over her comments some in the group viewed as anti-immigrant. In May 2019 she sued the organization for racial discrimination and was seeking back pay and punitive damages.
In the lawsuit, she claimed that “the same race problems that clouded the [2016] Sanders presidential campaign were also pervasive at Our Revolution,” relative to the group’s “strategic policies and outreach with African Americans.”
Tezlyn Figaro Military Service
Figaro revealed in a 2016 tweet that served in the military.
When I joined the military my recruiter told me being a secretary would be easier, I dont believe in easy routes! pic.twitter.com/9SlKmPN4xq
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) August 1, 2016
Tezlyn Figaro Net worth
Her net worth is unknown.