Adolfo Carrión to lead Obama’s Office of Urban Policy

Will target struggling cities

Wendy Natt, Feb 20, 09.

President Obama has appointed Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión director of the White House’s new Office of Urban Policy, according to an article in the New York Daily News. Carrión is an urban planner who served as borough president for seven years in one of the poorest counties in the US.

His job will be to coordinate federal programs in urban housing, public transportation, and other related areas and to ensure that these programs are being effectively targeted for federal aid.

Carrión, 47, is also President of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Before his term as Bronx Borough President, he worked as a city council member, a community board district manager in the west Bronx, a planner with the Department of City Planning, a public school teacher, and an assistant pastor in his father’s west Bronx Pentecostal church. He earned a master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College, CUNY.

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(Photo credit: Barack Obama)