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LUIS GUTIERREZ U.S. CONGRESSMAN, ILLINOIS’ 4TH DISTRICT
• He and his wife Soraida have two daughters. • Born, December 10, 1953
44 • July / August 2015
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1992 Sworn in as U.S. Congressman 2010 Helped guide the passage of the Development Relief and Education Act for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act)
Now in his twelfth term, Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez is the senior member of the Illinois delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his tenure, Gutierrez has not only pushed for quicker legislation to deal with the country’s immigration issues but he has also spearheaded programs to help immigrants become proficient in English, help immigrant children in the education system and inspired other Democrats to join the fight. http://gutierrez.house.gov / repgutierrez.tumblr.com www.facebook.com/RepGutierrez @repgutierrez
038 JUDICIAL SYSTEM
EVA GUZMÁN JUSTICE OF THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT
• She is 54. Married to Anthony Guzmán. Guzman is one of seven children of Mexican immigrant parents. She was reared in Houston. She lives in Austin, TX She graduated in 1979 from the predominantly Hispanic Austin High School. A resident of Cypress in Harris County, she is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the high court.
Texas Supreme Court Justice is the first Latina to serve on the Texas Supreme Court. She was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court in October of 2009 and in the Texas primary elections of early 2010, earned 65% of the vote, defeating Judge Rose Vela. Guzman prevailed in the general election, earning a six year term on the Texas Supreme Court. Guzmán was named Outstanding Texas Leader at the 2015 Texas Leadership Forum. In 2009 she was recognized by the Hispanic National Bar Association as “Latina Judge of Year” and by The Mexican-American Bar Association of Texas Foundation as Judge of the Year”. www.txcourts.gov/supreme/contact-us.aspx @JusticeGuzman
039 LOCAL GOVERNMENT, HEALTH
DAVID HAYESBAUTISTA PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
• Dr. Hayes-Bautista is married to Maria Hayes-Bautista, RN, MPH who is a principal staff associate of CESLAC. They are the proud parents of one daughter (Catalina) and one son (Diego). 1971 Founding Executive Director of the La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland, CA 1974 Worked at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley 1987 Currently Professor at UCLA
Extensive research into Latino healthcare has made Bautista a prominent voice in his field.Graduate from UC Berkeley and then completing his M.A. and PH.D at University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, he founded la Clínica de La Raza. Bautista is a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, establishing the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the School of Medicine in 1992. Researches the cost-effective, high-quality standard of care in Latino communities. His work has been published in medical journals and he is frequently interviewed in the media. dhayesb@ucla.edu http://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/hayes-bautista
CORPORATE, BUSINESS
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
CEO OF LIBERTY POWER
JOURNALIST, RADIO AND TV PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR.
U.S. CONGRESSMAN, TEXAS’ 15TH DISTRICT
• Born July2, 1961, she lives with her husband in New York. Has two children.
• Hinojosa has two children with wife Martha and three children from a previous marriage. • Born, August 20, 1940
DAVID HERNANDEZ • He is in his 40s. Residence: Fort Lauderdale, FL 1997 – 1999 MBA, Finance, Marketing Palm Beach Atlantic University 1988 – 1991 BS, Accounting
David Hernández is the CEO of Liberty Power, the largest independent retail electricity supplier in the United States. Since Hernández co-founded the company in 2001 it has become one of the ten largest Hispanic-owned companies in the country, serving nearly 200,000 business and residential accounts across the electric retailer’s national footprint. Liberty Power was ranked the #1 Fastest-Growing Hispanic 500 Company in 2007 by Hispanic Business Magazine. www.libertypowercorp.com/leadership/ david-hernandez/ Best to reach me through my assistant Suzanne Clark at sclark@libertypowercorp.com
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MARIA HINOJOSA
RUBEN HINOJOSA
Graduated from Barnard College.
For 25 years, this Mexico City-born journalist has been covering all sorts of issues for radio and TV networks like National Public Radio, CBS and CNN. A winner of four Emmys and other national and international awards, Hinojosa is known for also covering underreported issues, Latinos and other communities. She hosts the radio show Latino USA on National Public Radio since 1992. In 2010 she founded the Futuro Group, a nonprofit media organization that produced the recent PBS TV series “America by the Numbers” and has taken over the production of Latino USA. www.futuromediagroup.org @Maria_Hinojosa
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1997 Sworn in as U.S. Congressman 2007 Appointed chairman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education 2012 Elected chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Serving his tenth term, Hinojosa is an advocate for equal rights, education and housing development. One of his biggest achievements includes reducing the unemployment rate in 2008, and he is now a key figure in the immigration reform talks, inspiring newly elected Democrats to roll up their sleeves and get to work on solving this controversial issue. http://hinojosa.house.gov/biography https://www.facebook.com/ CongressmanRubenHinojosa https://twitter.com/usreprhinojosa
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