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Advisory Board of Institute

Executive Committee

Luis Aponte-Parés, Professor, College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston
Nelson Merced, Chair of the Board, Director of National Initiatives and Applied Research, Neighborhood Reinvestment, Washington DC
José Durán, Executive Director, Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation, Boston
Marie Kennedy, Emeritus Professor of Community Planning, UMass Boston
Daniel Ortíz, Director, Healey Library, UMass Boston
Jack Spence, Professor, Department of Political Science, UMass Boston

Members

Ramón Borges-Mendéz, Assistant Professor, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, UMass Boston 
Vanessa Calderón-Rosado. Executive Director Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Boston
Adan Colón-Carmona, Associate Professor, Biology Department, UMass Boston
Richard Colón, Vice President for Community Affairs, Verizon
Maria Elena Letona, Executive Director, Centro Presente, Cambridge
Alvaro Lima, Director of Research, Boston Redevelopment Authority
MaryJo Marion, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President of Massachusetts-Bay Community College, Wellesley 
Jose Masso, WBUR, Con Salsa
Jorge Santiago, Associate Professor, Northern Essex Community College, Lawrence
Oswaldo Mondejar, Vice President of Human Resources, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston
Hilda Ramirez, Chief Executive Officer, Ritmos Academy, Worcester
Wiliam Rodríguez Esq, Consultant
Gladys Rodríguez-Parker, Director of District Affairs, Office of Congressman James McGovern
Ester Shapiro, Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, UMass Boston
Tim Sieber, Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, UMass Boston
Juan Vega, Executive Director, Centro Latino de Chelsea
Raul Ybarra, Associate Professor, College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston  

EX-OFICIO
Felix Arroyo, former Boston City Councilor at Large
William Lantigua, State Representative District: Sixteenth Essex (Lawrence, MA)”
Jeffrey Sánchez, State Representative District: Fifteenth Suffolk., (Boston and Brookline, MA)   


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