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BORN: San German, Puerto Rico,
1972.
OCCUPATION: Third generation
Attorney; admitted to bar: Puerto Rico; Notary Public; United States
District Court for the District of Puerto Rico; Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit, Boston;
EDUCATION: Pontifical Catholic University
of Puerto Rico (B.A.; J.D., cum
laude). Member Pontifical Catholic University Law Review; Intership as
Law Clerk to Honorable Judges Hirám Sánchez Martínez and Ivonne
Feliciano Acevedo, Puerto Rico Court of Appeals.
MEMBER: Puerto Rico Bar Association;
Delta Theta Phi, Human Rights Campaign, A.C.LU., United for Equality, Inc. –Board
of Directors, Partido Popular Democratico.
LANGUAGES: English and Spanish.
PRACTICE AREAS: Appellate Practice, Complex
Civil Litigation of: Collections; of Property Regimes; Contracts; Family
Law; Hereditary Law.
POLITICS: 1997 Preside the Crime
and National Security Committee of “Pacto 100”, an effort of the
Partido Popular Democratico of recruiting young professionals to analyze
an evaluate the problems of the Puerto Rican Society in the quest of
obtaining possible solutions to those problems. Those findings were later
incorporated into the 2000 Platform of the Partido Popular Democratico;
2004 One of eight openly gay delegates to the DNC, Boston; 2004, Actively
participate in the campaign of the candidate for Mayor of San Juan,
Eduardo Bhatia, who openly favored the inclusion of gays and lesbian in
city politics.
ADVOCACY: Member of the
"Commission to Fight Discrimination against Sexual Orientation "
of the Puerto Rico Bar Association;Vice President of Puerto Rico Para
Tod@s a non-profit organization solely dedicated to the advocacy in favor
of social justice for the LGBT community, immigrants and other minority
groups; Collaborate in researching and drafting a PR Senate Bill that will
prohibit discrimination against sexual orientation and serology status;
Serve successfully as counselor for an employee of the University of
Puerto Rico, who was requesting medical benefits for his partner;
Participate in the only radio program for the LGBT community in Puerto
Rico, Saliendo del Closet" analyzing the legal aspects and
developments on LGBT rights and issues; Advocate in favor of the inclusion
of LGBT members, in the definition of family as proposed in PR Senate bill.
This bill intends to create a "Family Code", which would
agglutinate all family laws in Puerto Rico, providing those included in
the proposed definition of family, with special gubernatorial protections
and privileges; HIV Treatment and Preventio: Puerto Rico Community
Planning Group for the Treatment and Prevention of HIV Offer seminars,
counsel and support to this organization solely dedicated to the planning,
prevention and Treatment of HIV disease in Puerto Rico; Collaborate in
researching and drafting a PR Senate Bill that will prohibit
discrimination because of sexual orientation and serology status.
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