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Ritchie John Torres (born March 12, 1988) is an American politician from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, Torres is the U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district. The district covers most of the South Bronx. It is one of the smallest districts by area in the country, covering only a few square miles.
Nov 11, 2020 · Ritchie's father was not around, as he was married to someone else. The only father Torres knew was his stepfather, the family's primary breadwinner, who walked out on the family when Ritchie was 12. Ritchie did not meet his birth father until he was 15.
Like many people in the Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him, and he governs from a place of lived experience. Ritchie’s mother single-handedly raised him, his twin brother, and his sister in a public-housing project.
My mother raised me, my twin brother, and my sister in a small NYCHA apartment, all by herself, on jobs that barely paid the minimum wage.
Nov 11, 2022 · Torres is the only member of Congress who has been invited to dinner with Auchincloss and his wife. “He’s just incredibly smart, and that intellect comes through in very short order when you’re talking to him,” says Auchincloss about Torres, with whom he serves on the Financial Services Committee.
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.
Ritchie currently lives in the South Bronx and represents NY-15 in the South Bronx. He is a member of the Committee on Financial Services and serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Homeland Security.
