BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chair and Co-Founder
José R. Sánchez, Ph.D.
Chair, Urban Studies Department
Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus

Secretary
Edgar de Jesus
Area Organizing and Field Service Director
AFCSME, District 37, AFL-CIO
New York, NY

Treasurer
Israel Colon
Director, Multicultural Affairs Office
City of Philadelphia

Héctor Figueroa
Secretary-Treasurer
SEIU Local 32BJ
New York, NY

Tanya Kateri Hernandez, J.D.
Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research
Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC

Eugene Rivera, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker Associate
Riverview Hospital for Children and Families
Middletown, CT

Maria P. Rivera, Esq.
Managing Partner
National Refrescos Import Company
Jersey City, NJ

Walter Stafford, Ph.D.
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
New York University

Angelo Falcón
President and Co-Founder
National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Columbia University School of
International and Public Affairs
New York, NY