Nydia M. Velázquez

A Representative from New York. Born in Yabucoa, P. R. , March 28, 1953. B. A. , University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1974. M. A. , New York University, New York, N. Y. , 1976. Faculty, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, P. R. , 1976-1981. Adjunct professor, Hunter College, City University of New York, N. Y. , 1981-1983. Staff, United States Representative Edolphus Towns of New York, 1983. Member of the New York, N. Y. , city council, 1984. National director, Migration Division Office, Puerto Rico department of labor and human resources, 1986-1989. Director, department of Puerto Rican community affairs in the United States for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 1989-1992. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993-present). Chair, Committee on Small Business (One Hundred Tenth, One Hundred Eleventh, One Hundred Sixteenth, and One Hundred Seventeenth Congresses).