Nydia Velázquez

Nydia Margarita Velázquez ( born March 28, 1953 in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico) is an American high school teacher, politician of the Democratic Party and, since 1993 member of the U.S. House of Representatives for New York.

Biography

After school, she studied first at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras Camous and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies at New York University, she finished in 1976 with a Master of Arts. She then returned to Puerto Rico and was there she was on unscheduled Professor ( Adjunct Professor ) at Hunter College in New York City until 1981 appointed employee of the University of Puerto Rico at Camous of Humacao.1981 and taught there until 1983. According to a subsequent year as a staff member of Edolphus "Ed" Towns, a democratic Congressman for New York, she began in 1984 her political career with election as a member of the City Council of New York city (New York city Council ), which they for one term until 1986 belonged.

She then returned to Puerto Rico, where he was first National Director of the Migration Division of Puerto Rican Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources ) before 1989-1992 Director in the Ministry of Puerto Rican Affairs in the U.S. ( Department of Puerto Rican Community Affairs in the United States for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) was.

In 1992 she was elected as a Democrat even for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and represents there after eight elections since January 3, 1993, the interests of the 12th Congressional District of New York. Since 2007, she is not only Chairwoman of the Committee on Small Business (U.S. House Committee on Small Business ), but is also currently a member of the Committee on Financial Services (U.S. House Committee on Financial Services). Nydia Velázquez also belongs to the representatives of the interests of Hispanics in the House of Representatives because of their origin.