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Early life and education. Ritchie Torres was born on March 12, 1988, in the Bronx. He is Afro-Latino; his father is Afro-Puerto Rican and his mother was born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican parents. Torres was raised Catholic but says he is not practicing while still believing in God.
Representative Ritchie Torres is a fighter from the Bronx who has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home. Like many people in the Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him, and he governs from a place of lived experience.
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As a City Council Member, I introduced a bill to create an Office of School Diversity aimed at tackling deep segregation, and I will continue to fight for our children in Congress. The educational crisis does not stop with our youngest students.
Dec 31, 2020 · Ritchie Torres, the first Afro-Latino, out-LGBTQ politician in Congress, talks about poverty, depression, ambition, contracting COVID, de Blasio’s “incompetence,” and the Squad.
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Jun 1, 2021 · When Rep. Ritchie Torres won his seat from New York's 15th Congressional District in November, he became the first gay Black member of Congress — an honor he soon shared with Mondaire Jones,...
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I'll fight for quality health care and housing, schools and jobs. I'll stand up for immigrants, seniors, and youth. I'll fight everyday to protect our neighborhoods from gun violence and make the Bronx a safe, decent, affordable place to live. My motto in life is simple: ‘If you do nothing, nothing will change’.
Today, U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), along with Rep. Jennifer González-Colón (R-PR) and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), introduced the Healthy Affordable Housing Act to address the dire shortage of safe, affordable housing units for American families.
