Meet the Second Lady of Pennsylvania, Gisele Barreto Fetterman

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When Gisele was seven years old, she immigrated to the country illegally together with her mother and younger brother, settling in a one-room apartment in New York City. Due of terrible criminality in their neighborhood, they departed Brazil. The family in New York made do with furnishings they found on the streets and a meager diet of food. According to Fetterman, her family frequently relied on thrift shops and food banks. Her mother, a Brazilian-born immigrant with a Ph.D. who had worked as a nutritionist and educator, took jobs cleaning hotels and homes but frequently didn’t get paid because of her immigration status. When Fetterman first came to the country, she did not speak any English, so she enrolled in an ESL course at her Queens school. Later, the household relocated to Newark, New Jersey. The Institute for Integrative Nutrition was her place of study. In 2004 Fetterman obtained her green card, and in 2009 she was granted US citizenship.