Senior Vice President, Affiliate Member Services

Expertise

Research, strategic planning and assessment, and nonprofit management; community-based programs and outreach strategies; general issues affecting the Latino community in the U.S.; children in Puerto Rico

Education

Master’s degree, public administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; bachelor’s degree, English and American literature, Brown University

Background

Current Position: Oversight of Affiliate Member Services, the office that is the point of contact for NCLR’s Affiliate Network and which facilitates partnerships with community-based organizations throughout the U.S.; assistance to NCLR President and CEO in strategic planning/assessment and organizational management issues

Previous Position(s): Oversight of Research & Strategic Initiatives; co-manager of Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation (NCLR); Peregrine Management Company (administrator of public housing in Puerto Rico); Community Affairs, Citibank; Pensions, CIGNA Corporation; advisory board member, Center for the New Economy

Additional Information

Visiting Minority Scholar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty, 2000

Selected Publications

Critical Disparities in Latino Mental Health: Transforming Research into Action, coedited with Liany Elba Arroyo (November 2005)

Latinos in Construction: Breaking Barriers, Building Hope, editor (2005)

2004 KIDS COUNT – Puerto Rico Data Book, coauthored with Nayda I. Rivera-Hernández (August 2004)

State of Hispanic America 2004: Latino Perspectives on the American Agenda, co-edited with Michele Waslin (February 2004)

Mobilizing the Latino Vote: Tapping the Power of the Hispanic Electorate, coauthored with Charles Kamasaki, Cecilia Muñoz, Lisa Navarrete, and Clarissa Martinez De Castro (July 2002)

Beyond the Census: Hispanics and an American Agenda (August 2001)

Moving Up the Economic Ladder: Latino Workers and the Nation’s Future Prosperity, editor (July 2000)