Alex Rodriguez
In January 1999 Alex Rodriguez established the Management Consultant firm Rodriguez and Associates. The firm specializes in Business Development for Minority and Women owned companies with emphasis on, Business Development, civil rights and affirmative action issues. In 2012 Rodriguez and Associates was sold and Mr. Rodriguez became Vice Present for Development and Contract Manager for Innovative Consultants International, Inc located at 1800 K St, Washington, DC. In May 2016 Mr. Rodriguez retired.
Alex Rodriguez, former candidate for United States Congress, 8th District, Massachusetts, has dedicated more than forty-five years to serving the people of Virginia, Massachusetts and the U.S. in a variety of complex human service and public institutions. He has worked as a community organizer, educator, human resource specialist, law enforcer, planner, policy developer, and senior political appointee at the City and State level and in a Presidential Administration. In 1994, Rodriguez was called to Washington, DC by President Bill Clinton to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration at the Department of the Treasury. He resigned that post to run for Congress.
Governor Michael Dukakis appointed Rodriguez Chairman of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, a post he held from 1984 until 1991, having served previously as a member of the Commission from 1977 to 1981. Immediately prior to his service as a senior Clinton-Gore political appointee, Rodriguez was Chairman of the City of Cambridge License Commission. Earlier in his career he was the Court Monitor for Special Education in Boston as well as the Assistant Commissioner for Policy at the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare. Rodriguez taught Puerto Rican history at Boston College, and he was an instructor in the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He was also Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Urban Design and Planning faculty where he helped established a minority fellows program.
A noted public speaker, community leader and activist, Rodriguez has received numerous distinctions and awards. In 2015 he was designated as one of the 100 exceptional Puerto Ricans of the past Century by Hunter Colleges Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Among his other awards is an Honorary Doctorate degree from Bridgewater State University. In the October 1998 edition of Hispanic Business magazine Rodriguez is included as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States.
Rodriguez, whose parents were natives of Puerto Rico, was born and raised in New York City. A graduate of Goddard College in Vermont, he did graduate work in sociology at Indiana University, was the first full time Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Alumni of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and did course work towards a doctoral degree at the Florence Heller School of Social Welfare at Brandeis University. Mr. Rodriguez is married to Bettie Baca and they share five wonderful children.