ü    NORMA RODRIGUEZ-REYES Publisher of La Voz Hispana / The Hispanic Voice. A Weekly Spanish Newspaper circulating in the 9 cities with the highest concentrations of Latinos.

ü     Norma came to live in New Haven, CT from Puerto Rico when she was 5 years old.  She is third of ten sisters and three brothers.  Her parents Noemi and Hermenegildo Rodriguez were farmers from Lares.   They believed that education and hard work was the key to success.   

ü     Norma is a graduate of the University of Connecticut.  

ü     She was Director of the Atwater Senior Center for 25 years. 

ü     She traveled with the senior citizens to Italy, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, France, Holland, Germany, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, and throughout the United States. 

ü     Presently she is the President of Hispanic Communications, owner of La Voz Hispana de Connecticut (The Hispanic Voice of Connecticut). Connecticut’s largest and most respected Spanish language newsweekly circulating in the 9 cities with the highest concentration of Latinos.  

ü     Norma is Vice-chair of the New Haven Democratic Town Committee. 

ü     Commissioner for the State of CT Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission.

ü     On the Board of Directors of Spanish American Merchants Association. 

ü     First Hispanic State Central Committee Member 1984-1988. 

ü     First Hispanic to be elected as an Electoral Vote for President Clinton. 

ü     Was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in Boston July, 2004.  

ü     2006 Norma ran for Secretary of the State of Connecticut. 

ü     She is the chair of the on line journalism project – Newhavenindependent.org. 

ü     Norma has 3 sons: Tomás, a UConn graduate, Andre a Quinnipiac University graduate, and JuanCarlos, who is in the U.S. Air force.

Ms. Rodriguez-Reyes was appointed to the Commission in 2003 by Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney.