Elena Ethel Schlein was born on 4 May 1985 in Lugano, Switzerland.[3][4][5] Her father, Melvin Schlein, is an American academic and political scientist of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.[5][6] Her mother, Maria Paola Viviani, is a professor of comparative public law at the University of Insubria.[7] Originally, her paternal grandfather's surname was Schleyen; after arriving at Ellis Island, he changed it to Schlein.[5] Her maternal grandfather was the Italian Socialist Party politician Agostino Viviani [it], senator from 1972 to 1979 and a member of the High Council of the Judiciary.[8] Her paternal ancestors were from Zhovkva, now located in Ukraine, and her paternal grandmother, from whom she takes the middle name Ethel, was of Lithuanian origin.[5] She has a sister who is a diplomat by profession and a brother, Benjamin, who is a mathematician.[9]
Later in life, Schlein moved to Bologna.[10] She graduated in law at the University of Bologna in 2011, discussing a thesis on constitutional law.[7] Schlein holds American, Italian and Swiss citizenships. . .
She is also the first publicly-declared LGBTQ secretary of the Italian centre-left leading party. During her rise in the party, she has been compared to American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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