MEET CARLOS

 

"I was born and raised on the north side of Chicago. My father, Carlos Rosa, migrated to Chicago from Puerto Rico in his early 20s. My mother, Margarita Ramirez, immigrated with her parents from northern Mexico to Chicago when she was five years old. My parents met, fell in love, became public school educators and small business owners in this city.

I love Chicago. I love our diversity, our neighborhoods, and our families. Chicago made me who I am. That’s why, after graduating from college, I moved back to Chicago and got to work serving our communities – as a congressional aide, as a union staffer protecting workers’ rights, as a deportation defense organizer keeping families together, as a Local School Council member in Avondale, as alderman of the 35th Ward for 10 years, and now as General Superintendent and CEO of the Chicago Park District." —Carlos

 

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is a lifelong Chicagoan and passionate public servant with a decade of municipal leadership experience and a successful track record of building coalitions and delivering significant public policy and community infrastructure wins.

Read Carlos' bio on the Chicago Park District website.

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