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2009 Award Winner

The Honorable Nydia Velázquez
Member, U.S. House of Representatives (NY-12)

Nydia Velazquez Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Latina to lead a full Congressional committee – taking over as Chair of the Small Business Committee in 2006. She is a champion for financial literacy, housing counseling, fairness in lending, and affordable housing. From serving as New York’s most senior Member on the Financial Service Committee’s Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity to assembling a roundtable of housing and finance experts to address the foreclosure crisis, Velázquez has worked extensively to preserve affordable housing in her District and the nation, prevent predatory lending, increase the availability of housing counseling, and provide economic opportunities for public housing residents.

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