activities includes service as president of Sarasota Scullers Youth Rowing Program, vice president of the Sarasota County Rowing Club, Sarasota County Rowing Association board of directors, and Sarasota YMCA's board of directors. Political activities Ferrandino moved to Sarasota, Florida in 2004 after living most of her career in the Northeast. She was elected chair of the Sarasota County Democratic Party prior to the start of the hotly contested 2008 presidential election. In 2008 Ferrandino served as a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, where she appeared among the delegates interviewed for a New York Times video series. Since 2011, she appeared as a guest on Florida This Week, a public affairs program airing on WEDU, the PBS affiliate in Tampa, Florida. In 2010, Ferrandino wrote a guest column in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. She was cited in a Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, "Eight to Watch in 2008," an April 2009 SRQ Magazine cover story entitled “Fighting Nice,” and a 2008 Sarasota Herald-Tribune story, "Leading A Party Toward Renewal". In 2012, she served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and as one of Florida's 29 electors. In December 2012, Ferrandino was reelected to a two-year term as the chair of the Democratic Party for the county. During her service to the Democratic Party in a swing county in a swing state, Ferrandino hosted Democratic officials and key influencers, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Steny Hoyer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Barney Frank, Julian Bond, and others. References Living people 1963 births