# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alicia-menendez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:56:09.292Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alicia-menendez"
name: "Alicia Menendez"
slug: "alicia-menendez"
description: "Alicia Jacobsen Menendez is an American television commentator, host, and writer. She is the author of the book The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are (2019), and is an anchor for MS NOW. From 2020 to 2024, she was host of American Voices with Alicia Menendez on Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC. She is also a contributing editor at Bustle and host of its Latina to Latina podcast. Formerly, she was a correspondent on the PBS show Amanpour & Company and the host of Come Here and Say That on Fusion. Prior to that she was a host and producer at HuffPost Live. She is the daughter of former United States Senator Bob Menendez. She currently hosts MS NOW's On the Line with Alicia Menendez at 12 pm ET weekdays."
tagline: "American television commentator and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alicia_Menendez_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1983-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.72
  momentum:             13.68467393727099
  historical:           5.14662
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/AliciaMenendez"
    handle:    "AliciaMenendez"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/aliciamenendezxo/"
    handle:    "aliciamenendezxo"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AliciaMenendezTV"
    handle:    "AliciaMenendezTV"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2301828/"
    handle:    "nm2301828"
sources:
  - url: "https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Menendez"
    title: "Alicia Menendez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Menendez"
    title: "Alicia Menendez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alicia_Menendez"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a2a6d5fe-4f5c-4a58-b997-a0fc8a5eda66"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4726284"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2506869"
    title: "Alicia Menendez"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations