Acosta Sim News Today

By Millicent Borges Accardi Angela Costa Simões, a third-generation Portuguese American, wears many hats. She is an entrepreneur, children’s book author, podcaster, PR rockstar, consultant, and mother. Living in Fremont, California, she has served as Chair and Member of the Board of the Portuguese American Leadership Council (PALCUS) where she currently serves on the Executive […]

The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) has a new leadership team, including a new chair and a new slate of officers.

Domingos Fezas Vital, Portugal’s ambassador to the United States Loretta Brennan Glucksman’s great-grandparents all emigrated from Ireland. They were coal miners, brewers and bakers—and all four ended up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Anthony Tamburri, meanwhile, grew up in a very Italian neighborhood of Stamford, Connecticut. And Eleni Kounalakis is the daughter of a Greek real-estate developer from the village of Rizes. Today, Glucksman heads the American Ireland Fund and co-chairs the Glu...