"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.
You can read some of Carlos' opinion pieces here.
What others have said about Carlos:
- "40 Under 40: Carlos Ramirez-Rosa," Crain's Chicago Business (2023)
- "On Chicago's Northwest Side, Socialists Are Wielding Power in a Whole New Way," In These Times (2023)
- "Chicago Socialists Led the Way in Expanding Undocumented Immigrant Protections," Jacobin (2021)
- "Chicago Alderman Uses Old Fashioned Way To Get Information Out On COVID-19," CBS 2 (2020)
- "Who Tops the 2019 'Nation' Honor Roll," The Nation (2019)
- "Carlos Ramirez-Rosa's Fight for Affordable Housing," Bias Magazine (2019)
- "How One Alderman Is Working to Demystify Redevelopment," Chicago Magazine (2018)
- "This Chicago Politician Is Showing How To Govern From The Left," The Nation (2017)
- "This Chicago Politician Is Ready to Resist Donald Trump's Deportation Fervor," Mother Jones (2017)
- "Emerging Power Players: Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, The Organizer," Chicago Magazine (2017)
- "20 in their 20s: Why Carlos Is Someone To Know," Crain's Chicago Business (2016)
- "Chicago's youngest alderman is a Millennial, backs LGBT agenda - and isn't hanging with Rahm," Chicago Tribune (2015)
- "Meet Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, the 26-Year-Old Who Stormed Onto City Council," DNAinfo Chicago (2015)