Bazán new Chair at NCLR Board.

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) announced that Andrea Bazán, President of Triangle Community Foundation, has been elected as Chair of the NCLR Board of Directors. Ms. Bazán succeeds Monica Lozano, Publisher and CEO of La Opinión.

As president of the Triangle Community Foundation, a charitable foundation whose mission is to expand private philanthropy in the communities of Wake, Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties, North Carolina, Ms. Bazán is responsible for leading the 23-year-old foundation and overseeing the stewardship of its more than $110 million in assets.

Ms. Bazán has served on the NCLR Board of Directors since 2002, most recently as Vice Chair. Before joining the foundation, she served as the first Executive Director of El Pueblo, Inc., a North Carolina statewide advocacy and public policy organization and an NCLR Affiliate, based in Raleigh. She holds a master’s degree in social work and a master’s in public health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

“As a former Executive Director of an NCLR Affiliate, Andrea brings community-grown leadership and the valuable insight and perspective of our most important constituency to her work on the Board. I am especially excited that NCLR will benefit from Andrea’s guidance and direction in this important time in our organization’s development and our community’s history,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO.

“I am honored to serve as the organization’s Board Chair, and I welcome the unique challenge of bringing the experiences I have gained from serving North Carolina’s emerging Latino community to an historic and influential national organization such as NCLR,” said Bazán.

NCLR’s Board is a 26-member body made up of elected officials and representatives of community-based organizations, the corporate sector, and academia. Board members reflect the diversity of Hispanic nationality groups and geographic distribution of the Hispanic population and, by mandate, the Board must include equal representation of men and women.

NCLR also named four new members at the June 2008 Board of Directors meeting in San Diego: César Álvarez, Chief Executive Officer, Greenberg Traurig, Miami, FL; Linda Mazón-Gutiérrez, President, Hispanic Women’s Corporation, Phoenix, AZ; Dr. Clara Rodríguez, Professor at Fordham University, New York, NY; and Cid Wilson, Director of Equity Research, Kevin Dann & Partners, Leonia, NJ.