Mayor angel taveras biography
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Angel Taveras
Elmwood ungdom Enrichment Program
1992 Global Fellow
Elmwood Youth Enrichment Program
1992 Global Fellow
Personal Bio
Angel Taveras was the 37th mayor of Providence, Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. An attorney and former Providence Housing Court Judge, Mayor Taveras was elected as the city’s first Latino mayor with 82 percent of the vote. beneath his leadership, Providence was recognized with the All-America City Award from the National Civic League for its program to boost third grade reading proficiency and the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors utmaning for its innovative proposal to improve the vocabularies of pre-school age children. In 2013, Taveras presided over some of the first same-sex marriages in Rhode Island.
Mayor Taveras grew up on the South Side of Providence, where he attended Head Start before entering the Providence Public Schools, and went on to graduate with honors from Harvard University. Before pursuing his lifelong dr
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Former Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has landed at the international law firm of Greenberg Trauig, LLC, where he works out of the Boston office.
Taveras says he enjoys his new job with the large firm. The Boston office is located at One International Place in Boston.
The firm’s web site states that Taveras has a practice focused on municipal restructuring (a field he had lots of experience in during four years as mayor of Rhode Island’s capital); public finance; commercial litigation; pension litigation and public infrastructure.
Taveras, a graduate of Harvard and the Georgetown University Law Center, is admitted to practice in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York and in federal courts, including the U.S. Court of appeals for the First District.
His bio also notes that he is fluent in Spanish.
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Angel Taveras, Former Mayor of Providence
92-3. Angel Taveras
Will Bachman 00:01
Hello, and welcome to the 92 report conversations with members of the Harvard and Radcliffe class of 1992. I’m your host will Bachman. And it is a real honor to be here today with Mayor Angele Taveras, who was the mayor of Providence? Mayor. Welcome to the show.
Angel Taveras 00:21
Oh, well, thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate the invitation.
Will Bachman 00:24
So it’s really a thrill to have you on. I want to start by asking you bring us inside the life of being a mayor and help us maybe first what was surprising to you about being mayor? What did you not expect? How was the role different than you expected it to be from the outside?
Angel Taveras 00:50
Wow, that’s a great question. I mean, I think being married and wonderful, wonderful job. And that’s because you’re very close to your community,