Maria Handley ( born 4 October 1977 ) is a member-at-large of the Democratic National Committee from Colorado . A veteran of both Bill Bradley and Howard Dean 's campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination , Handley was appointed by Dean to the DNC . As a superdelegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention , Handley has publicly supported Hillary Clinton . Born in rural Peru and adopted as a child by Boulder County couple Bruce and Vija Handley , Maria Handley graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999 with a bachelor 's degree in political science and a minor in history . Her parents were politically active and her father ran for state representative when she was two years old , and Handley entered professional politics shortly after graduation . She worked as a field director in Iowa and Colorado for the 2000 presidential campaign of Bill Bradley , and for Mayor Paul Schell in Seattle , Washington in 2001 . She was then statewide political director for Rollie Heath 's unsuccessful bid for Colorado governor in 2002
2008 Democratic National Convention
2008 Democratic National Convention
Maria Handley