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Angelo Falcón
National Institute for Latino Policy, 101 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 494-5, New York, NY 10013
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-334-5722
amf71@columbia.edu
Biography:
Angelo Falcón is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at SIPA. He is also President of the National Institute for Latino Policy, 101 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 494-5, New York, NY 10013, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy center that focuses on Latino issues in the United States. He is a political scientist with research interests on Latino politics and policy.
He is the author of the Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans (Washington, DC: Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, 2004), Opening the Courthouse Doors: The Need for More Hispanic Judges (New York: Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, 2002), and Still on the Outside Looking In: Latino Employment in New York Broadcast Television (New York: National Hispanic Media Coalition, 2001). He is co-editor of Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2004), Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican & Cuban Perspectives on American Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), and Latinos and Politics: A Select Research Bibliography (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991). He has also written widely in such publications as The Nation, El Diario-La Prensa, Hispanic Link and others.
Mr. Falcón is on the board of directors of the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention, the Community Resource Exchange, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
Mr. Falcón did his undergraduate work at Columbia College in New York City and his graduate work at the State University of New York at Albany, where he was the recipient of their Distinguished Nelson A. Rockefeller Alumni Award.
He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and has lived in New York City since his sixth month of age. He grew up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and currently resides in the Harlem section of Manhattan.