User:Alfonsoquiroz

Alfonso Quiroz is the son of Alfonso Quiroz, Sr. and Marilyn Carole Gartelmann Quiroz. His family first came to the United States in 1906. His father Alfonso Quiroz, Sr. is a union worker (Steelworkers Local 1834), who built the Pullman railroad cars. HIs mother, Marilyn, is a switchboard operator at a Columbia College in Chicago, a former waitress and administrative assistant at Aetna Life Insurance.

Growing up on the far south side of Chicago, Quiroz wrote for and eventually edited his hometown newspaper, the 2,000-copy Pullman Flyer. He worked four part-time jobs to save enough money to seek higher education after graduating from Mount Carmel High School.

The first in his family to be able to attend college, he studied political science at DePaul University. Fascinated by government and politics, he applied and was honored to have been selected as an intern for Hillary Clinton in the White House in 1995.

After graduating from DePaul, he served as an aide to Illinois U.S. Senator Carol Mosley-Braun in her re-election bid, and then joined Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, where he was dispatched to Iowa to organize field operations for the caucus. Quiroz subsequently traveled across the country to rally support and organize states before the primaries, and later was assigned to Florida, where he organized and oversaw operations as the nail-biting recount unveiled.

In New York City, he served as an aide to former Public Advocate Mark Green in his mayoral bid in 2001, and subsequently volunteered for Andrew Cuomo in his 2002 bid for New York State Governor.

That same year, he joined the staff of Council Member Helen Sears, in whose district he lives. As Deputy Chief of Staff, he managed staff, handled legislative affairs and media and addressed constituent concerns about health, education, sanitation and housing. His work involved collaborating with community leaders, civic groups, and elected officials on a local, city and state level.

He currently serve as a Media Manager at Consolidated Edison, a position in which he has worked with media and the public on issues of importance to New York City residents.

He served on Queens Community Board 3 for five years and is a member of the JFK Democratic Club, Stonewall Democratic Club of New York, and am active in the Jackson Heights.

Quiroz was born on December 8, 1972 and is of German, Mexican and Ukrainian descent.