Alana Mastrangelo
Alana Rose Mastrangelo is a former political activist who served as a Regional Director at the youth organization Turning Point USA from January 2016 to October 2018. She is currently a reporter at Breitbart News.
Mastrangelo was born on May 9, 1988[1] in Cleveland, Ohio of Italian-American parents. Her father is from the Province of Campobasso, and mother's family is from the Province of Isernia. Mastrangelo holds dual citizenship in both the United States and Italy.
Mastrangelo received her undergraduate degree from John Carroll University, where she studied politics and history.
In 2015, Mastrangelo ran for City Council of Willoughby Hills, a suburb 19 miles outside of Cleveland. Although she was in Italy during most of the campaign, Mastrangelo promptly returned to the United States sixty days before the election, and accused her opponent of "pretending to own a business"[2] and facilitating "nepotism."[3]
In 2016, Mastrangelo assisted in the creation of Professor Watch List, a website by Turning Point USA that lists U.S. professors deemed to "discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom."[4] After its launch, the website had been criticized as a tool used to threaten professors.[5][6] Mastrangelo defended the website, stating that it is "helpful" for conservative students who want "to know if a professor has actually made headlines for past behavior."[7]
In 2017, Mastrangelo was heard outlining a plan to funnel thousands of dollars into student government campaigns at Ohio State University.[8]. In a leaked audio recording of her phone call, Mastrangelo was heard talking about how Turning Point USA would be running seemingly liberal students who were actually "closet conservatives." Mastrangelo referred to the plan as "a Trojan Horse."[9]
In August 2018, Mastrangelo criticized New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Fox and Friends, calling his comments "asinine" and stating that as a descendant of Italian immigrants, Cuomo "should know better"[10] than to make disparaging remarks about America.
Mastrangelo was a contributor for the Washington Examiner from August 2017 to April 2018.
