{"id":236054,"date":"2025-05-20T07:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=236054"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:53:20","slug":"her-parents-pride-and-joy-yolanda-fernandez-cedeno-gets-a-masters-at-george-washington-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/20\/her-parents-pride-and-joy-yolanda-fernandez-cedeno-gets-a-masters-at-george-washington-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Her parents\u2019 pride and joy: Yolanda Fernandez Cede\u00f1o gets a masters at George Washington University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Yolanda-Fernandez-Ceden\u0303o-graduacio\u0301n-Diario-Libre-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236099\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Yolanda-Fernandez-Ceden\u0303o-graduacio\u0301n-Diario-Libre-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Yolanda-Fernandez-Ceden\u0303o-graduacio\u0301n-Diario-Libre-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Yolanda-Fernandez-Ceden\u0303o-graduacio\u0301n-Diario-Libre-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Yolanda-Fernandez-Ceden\u0303o-graduacio\u0301n-Diario-Libre-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Yolanda-Fernandez-Ceden\u0303o-graduacio\u0301n-Diario-Libre.png 1766w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Former President Leonel Fernandez was in Washington, D. C. for the 17 May 2025 graduation of his 21-year-old daughter, Yolanda America Maria Fernandez Cede\u00f1o. This is his daughter with former Vice President Margarita Cede\u00f1o, born in 2003 during his third term in office. Cede\u00f1o would go on to be the vice president in the Danilo Medina&#8217;s governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yolanda Fernandez Cede\u00f1o received a master&#8217;s degree in Educational Psychology from George Washington University in Washington DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the occasion, her parents took to social media to celebrate this significant achievement, with Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez stating: &#8220;It fills me with pride.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre reports that the daughter of the former President and Vice President has always been kept out of the news, contrary to her half-siblings, Nicole Fernandez, known for her love of designer bags, and now married to Cooperstown Hall of Fame member Albert Pujols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2025\/05\/19\/yolanda-fernandez-la-hija-de-perfil-bajo-de-leonel-fernandez\/3118771\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 May 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Leonel Fernandez was in Washington, D. C. for the 17 May 2025 graduation of his 21-year-old daughter, Yolanda America Maria Fernandez Cede\u00f1o. This is his daughter with former Vice President Margarita Cede\u00f1o, born in 2003 during his third term in office. Cede\u00f1o would go on to be the vice president in the Danilo &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/20\/her-parents-pride-and-joy-yolanda-fernandez-cedeno-gets-a-masters-at-george-washington-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236100,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236054\/revisions\/236100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}