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Adriano Espaillat (born September 27, 1954)〔 is a Dominican-American politician. He is a member of the New York State Senate and a former member of the New York State Assembly. He is currently a Ranking Member of the Senate Housing, Construction and Community Development Committee and Chair of the Senate Latino Caucus. Espaillat represents the neighborhoods of Marble Hill, Inwood, Washington Heights, Hamilton Heights, West Harlem, and the Upper West Side in Manhattan and the Bronx. Espaillat is a Democrat. ==Early life, education, & career== Espaillat was born in 1954 in Santiago, Dominican Republic; his family is descended from the Dominican President Ulises Espaillat. He graduated from Bishop Dubois High School in 1974 and earned his B.S. degree in political science at Queens College in 1978.〔 He served as the Manhattan Court Services Coordinator for the NYC Criminal Justice Agency, a non-profit organization that provides indigent legal services and works to reduce unnecessary pretrial detention and post-sentence incarceration costs. As a state-certified conflict resolution mediator and volunteer with the Washington Heights Inwood Conflict Resolutions and Mediation Center, Espaillat helped resolve hundreds of conflicts.〔http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/adriano-espaillat/bio〕 He later worked as Director of the Washington Heights Victims Services Community Office, an organization offering counseling and other services to families of victims of homicides and other crimes. From 1994 to 1996, Espaillat served as the Director of Project Right Start, a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to combat substance abuse by educating the parents of pre-school children.〔 Prior to his election to the New York State Assembly, Espaillat was an active voice on New York City Community Board 12, and President of the 34th Precinct Community Council, working to eradicate drugs and crime from Upper Manhattan and successfully advocating for the creation of a new police precinct. Espaillat also served on Governor Mario Cuomo's Dominican-American Advisory Board from 1991-1993.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adriano Espaillat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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