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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Margarita Lopez |
| Address | 606 East 11 Street
New York, New York , United States |
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| Info | Council Member Margarita Lopez was elected to the New York City Council in November of 1997 and re-elected in 2001 and 2003. She is the Chairperson of the Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Disability Services.
Lopez is the first openly lesbian Puerto Rican ever elected to office. Born in Puerto Rico, Lopez relocated to Manhattan s Lower East Side in 1979, where she soon became involved in the housing movement and other community-based efforts. As the Chairwoman of the Lower East Side Joint Planning Council, she helped develop more than 1,000 low-income housing units and over 400 units for the homeless mentally ill. She has continued to remain active in the housing movement, advocating for the development of special housing for people living with AIDS. In 1997, Lopez led public housing residents in their defeat of the New York City Housing Authority�s efforts to impose discriminatory work requirements. She is a founding member of a neighborhood family planning clinic located in Lower Manhattan and organized opposition to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Incinerator. From 1982 to 1996, she served as a member of Lower Manhattan's Community Board 3. In September 1995, Lopez was elected Female Democratic Party District Leader for the 63rd Assembly District.
Lopez worked as a Team Leader and engaged in outreach work at Project Reachout, the oldest outreach program in New York State. She helped develop the first outreach program for the homeless mentally ill population, which was documented in a film produced by PBS, "The Broken Mind", as well as numerous news and other television programs. Lopez has served on the MacArthur Foundation's Advisory Committee on Mental Illness and the Law, and has been associated with the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mentally Ill and has contributed to publications dedicated to working with this population. In 1994, she was awarded a Charles A. Revson Fellowship by Columbia University. She also received the Fannie Lou Hamer Award for her work toward racial and women�s equality. Lopez has also served on the boards of the Astrea and North Star Foundations and helped form the Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop Empowerment.
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