Odette Ramos, 47, won the Democratic primary race for City Council District 14. Her victory sets her up to become the city's first Latina elected official should she secure a victory in the general elections.
As a judge Sonia Sotomayor takes her personal history and her community into account, using that to remind her that human beings consist of good and bad, horrific and heroic; and she treats individuals in her court as people while holding them responsible for their crimes.
LatinasRepresent, a collaborative effort between Political Parity–whose goal is to boost the number of women in the upper levels of government–and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, hopes to embolden Latinas to serve as political representatives.
