Board
of Directors
President
CID WILSON (NJ)
First
Vice President
JOSEFINA INFANTE (NJ)
Second
Vice President
MARIA LUNA (NY)
Vice
President of Membership
MARGARITA CEPEDA-LEONARDO FL)
Treasurer
RAFAEL MOREL (FL)
Assistant
Treasurer
MURIEL ALFONSECA (MD)
Secretary
NINOSKA URIBE (NY)
Assistant
Secretary
DORA MARIA ABREU (NY)
Co-Chair
of DANR National Conference
HON. ADRIANO ESPAILLAT(NY)
Co-Chair
of DANR National Conference
ANA GARCIA-REYES
RAYSA CASTILLO
(NY)
RALPH CARRERO (MA)
HON. ADRIANO ESPAILLAT (NY)
CONSUELO EVANS (NJ)
IVY FAIRCHILD (NY)
OSCAR HERASME (NY)
ANA GARCIA-REYES (NY)
ZENAIDA MENDEZ (DC)
RAFAEL NUNEZ-CEDENO (IL)
ANDRES PANIAGUA (MA)
EVERIN PEREZ (RI)
MOISES PEREZ (NY)
HON. JUAN PICHARDO (RI)
JOSE TORRES (FL)
SILVIO TORRES-SAILLANT (NY)
JHOMPHY VENTURA (RI)
ALEXANDRA VENTURA (NY)
NELSON VALDEZ (NJ)
PURA VASQUEZ (PR)
LOURDES WASHINGTON (MD)
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September 2004
It gives me great honor and privilege to present to you the Dominican
American National Roundtable Report on Dominican-American Voter
Capacity in the United States.
The Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR) is a non-partisan
Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates for the empowerment
of Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico. The DANR is
a 501(c)(3) organization created in 1997 and incorporated in 2000.
We are the first and still the only national organization advocating
on behalf of the over 1 million Dominicans living in the U.S.
and its territories. Our main focus is in the areas of education,
health, economic development, and political empowerment.
2004 will be a critical year in the United States. With the
Presidential and Congressional elections taking place this year,
there will be an increased focus on Dominican voters like never
before. This report creates the platform and the evidence of the
capacity for Dominicans to vote in the U.S. elections.
In 2002, the DANR embarked in a bold initiative to register thousands
of voters and we are pleased to report that that we have succeeded
in that initiative. With the completion of this report, it will
allow the DANR and other organizations to conduct future voter
registration programs in a smarter and targeted fashion.
The foundation of the DANR lies in our ability to unify the many
Dominican communities around the country and each community’s
ability to send a unified message to their respective elected
officials. With the release of this report, we can now quantify
that ability.
I would like to thank Deni Taveras, for her outstanding research
on this project; Dennis Rivera, President of 1199-SEIU; DANR Boardmember
Nelson Valdez of 1199-SEIU; and Dr. Ramona Hernandez, Director
of the Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New
York for their support and guidance. I would also like to thank
the current and past DANR boardmembers and staff who played an
active leadership role in this project.
With that said, I present to you our report: “A Study of
Dominican-American Voter Capacity”.
Sincerely,
Cid Wilson President Dominican American National Roundtable.
cidwilson@yahoo.com
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