New York lawyer Dilcia Granville has been voted the new president of the Dominican-American National Roundtable (DANR), the leading Dominican community advocacy organization in the United States.
“It’s a unique opportunity,” Dilcia Granville said in a statement. She will head the largest non-profit non-partisan corporation that lobbies for the socio-economic and political empowerment of over two million Dominicans in the United States.
The announcement comes on the heels of Granville’s recent release of her book on innovation and entrepreneurship: “Invention: The New Currency for the 21st Century.”
Granville, formerly vice president of the DANR, currently works as the Senior Public Affairs Officer for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the New York District Office. She is also known as the first Dominican woman inventor worldwide. She invented the first of its kind “Dip and See? Sugar Indicator” for food, which detects sugar and glucose in beverages. She co-chairs the American Diabetes Association, (ADA) Latino Initiative, “Por Tu Familia” Committee.
Granville will be the ninth DANR president as of 1 January 2013 for the two-year term.
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