title: Liza M. Ortiz
text: # Liza M. Ortiz
  
  Liza M. Ortiz-Camacho (born September 8, 1974) is a Democratic and Popular Party (PDP) politician in Puerto Rico who is being considered as the PDP's candidate for Puerto Rico's non-voting seat in the United States House of Representatives.
  
  ## Education
  
  Ortiz graduated cum laude from the University of Puerto Rico in 1996, where she obtained a B.A. majoring in political science. She obtained her Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1999, after spending a summer at the International Studies Center at the José Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Toledo, Spain studying European Community Law and Comparative Spanish Family Law. In Spain, she obtained a master's degree in Political Studies and completed doctoral studies on Constitutional Law at the Complutense University of Madrid School of Law.
  
  ## Political life
  
  In 1999, she served as then-congressional candidate Acevedo Vilá's Communications and Media Director. She was elected in 2011 as Puerto Rico's Democratic National Committeewoman.
  
  