Tia Balart Bio, Wiki

Tia Diaz-Balart is the wife to Mario Diaz-Balart, a Republican U.S. Representative for Florida’s 25th congressional district. During the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Díaz-Balart became the first member of Congress to test positive for COVID-19 on March 18, 2020.

Tia Balart Education

Tia studied pre-law, with minors in Spanish and French at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and resides in Miami, Florida with her husband, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, and their son.

Tia Balart Career

Tia Diaz-Balart is leading the charge to establish a SEED school in Miami-Dade County according to her LinkedIn. She is also the founder of the EcoChamber, the first and only global green chamber of commerce.

Tia previously served as the vice president at rbb Public Relations, the national marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard’s USA operations, and director at GDB Miami. Tia’s other prior positions include finance director for a Florida Secretary of State Election campaign and the corporate coordinator for the Hemispheric Summit of the Americas hosted by the White House.

Tia has been an active member of the Florida community and serves on the national committee for the American Red Cross Annual Gala and worked to launch the Pediatric Integrative Research Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Tia Balart Cancer

According to her Linkedln, Tia survived a chronic lung disease after inhaling a chemical at the age of two and later breast cancer. The two  “conditions that put her at exceptionally high risk” after it emerged that her husband had tested positive for Covid-19.

Who is Mario Diaz-Balart? Rep Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart Caballero was born on September 25th, 1961. He is a Republican U.S. Representative for Florida’s 25th congressional district. He was elected in 2002, and his current district includes much of southwestern Miami-Dade County, including the city of Hialeah, and much of the northern portion of the Everglades.

On March 18, 2020, Díaz-Balart announced he had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the current pandemic of the disease. He was the first member of the United States Congress to test positive for the disease.

Shortly after his announcement another House member, Rep. Ben McAdams (D-Utah), 45, announced he had also tested positive for the virus.

Diaz-Balart, 58, has been in self-quarantine in his Washington, D.C., apartment since Friday.

“On Saturday evening, Congressman Diaz-Balart developed symptoms, including a fever and a headache.  Just a short while ago, he was notified that he has tested positive for COVID-19,” read a statement released by his office.

According to the statement, Diaz-Balart did not return to Florida “out of an abundance of caution.”

I'm feeling much better. However, it's important that everyone take this seriously and follow @CDCgov guidelines in order to avoid getting sick & mitigate the spread of this virus. We must continue to work together to emerge stronger as a country during these trying times. pic.twitter.com/g5W5vSQIyH

— Mario Diaz-Balart (@MarioDB) March 18, 2020

Tia Balart Facebook

On her Facebook page about she writes she’s driven by “Faith, family, health, children (The SEED School fo Miami ?).” Her Facebook cover photo features her family, her husband, Diaz-Balart and her son.