Alejandro Portes, President

Alejandro Portes (Ph.D. in Sociology, Wisconsin, 1970) is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University.  He has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation and has received honorary degrees from the New School for Social Research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His books received the Robert H. Park Award for best book in Urban Sociology and Anthony P. Leeds Award for best book in Urban Anthropology for City on the Edge; and the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Publication Award and the Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award for Legacies:  The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. He was elected President of the American Sociological Association in 1998 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He has been a PI or co-PI in twenty-five externally funded research projects, including major grants from NSF, NIMH, and the Mellon, Spencer, Russell Sage, Tinker, and Ford Foundations.

Alfredo G. Duran, Second Vice President

Alfredo G. Duran is a lawyer practicing law in Miami, Florida.  Mr. Duran has a long standing record of participation in Democratic Party politics including chairmanship of the Florida Democratic Party, 1976-1980 and membership in various DNC party committees and commissions. He has also served as member of the Dade County School Board, chairman of the Community Relations Board, member of the Board of Directors of Mercy Hospital Foundation, Inc., NAFTA and Beyond Commission and other civic and community organizations.  He is a former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association and is presently Member of the Board of Directors of the Cuban Committee for Democracy (CCD) and Member of the Board of Directors of Center for International Policy.

Bernabe A. Hernandez, Treasurer

Bernabe Hernandez, CCD Treasurer, is a civil engineer with more than thirty years of professional experience. He has a masters degree from Florida International University and a Ph.D. In engineering from Kennedy Western University.