Sup. Mark Ridley-Thomas

Viernes, De marzo 18, 2011
Segment I, 5 AM

Mark Ridley-Thomas

Mark Ridley-Thomas ha representado a la casi 2.3 million people of the Second District on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors since December 2008. Durante su primer año de gobierno, he shepherded through an agreement with the University of California to provide medical services at the new Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, que abrirá sus puertas a finales de 2012. He also persuaded the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to fund a light rail system from Crenshaw Boulevard to Los Angeles International Airport and move up the opening from 2029 a tan temprana como 2016. Juntos, the hospital and rail projects will generate more than $2 billion in spending and create over 16,000 puestos de trabajo.

Ridley-Thomas es el primer afroamericano en servir en la Junta de Supervisores de Los Angeles. Su distrito incluye Carson, Compton, Culver City, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood y Lynwood, partes o la totalidad de 10 Distritos del Concejo Municipal de Los Ángeles y las comunidades no incorporadas del Parque Alondra, Atenas, Del Aire, Domínguez, Medio Compton, El Camino Village, Florencia, Ladera Heights, Lennox, Vista Parque, West Athens, West Carson, West Compton, Willowbrook y Wiseburn.

Antes de su elección a la Junta, Supervisor Ridley-Thomas sirvió el 26 de Distrito en el Senado del Estado de California, donde presidió la Comisión de Negocios, Profesiones y Desarrollo Económico y de sus dos subcomisiones de deportes profesionales y entretenimiento, Y la economía, Preparación para el Trabajo y el Desarrollo. Además de sus funciones de presidencia, Ridley-Thomas sirvió en las Asignaciones del Senado, Energía, Utilidades y Comunicaciones; and Health and Public Safety committees.

En enero 2008, he became Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus and led the Caucus in unprecedented levels of cooperation and collaboration with counterparts in the Latino, and Asian-Pacific Islander Legislative Caucuses.

His legislative work addressed a broad range of issues with implications for economic and workforce development, cuidado de la salud, la seguridad pública, educación, la rendición de cuentas del presupuesto, consumer protection and civic participation.

Mark Ridley-Thomas fue elegido por primera vez a un cargo público en 1991 and served with distinction on the Los Angeles City Council for nearly a dozen years and departed as Council President pro Tempore. He later served two terms in the California State Assembly, where he chaired the Assembly Democratic Caucus.

He is widely regarded as the foremost advocate of neighborhood participation in government decision-making. By virtue of his founding the Empowerment Congress, arguably the region’s most successful experiment in neighborhood-based civic engagement, he is considered the founder of the Neighborhood Council movement.

Ridley-Thomas’ political career was preceded by a decade of service as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles, que siguió una breve pero exitosa de cinco años período como profesor de secundaria.

He is a graduate of Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles and earned a baccalaureate degree in Social Relations (menor en el Gobierno) y una maestría en Ciencias de la Religión (concentration in Christian Ethics) del Inmaculado Corazón de la universidad. El Sr.. Ridley-Thomas went on to receive his Ph.D. in Social Ethics and Policy Analysis from the University of Southern California.

Está casado con Avis Ridley-Thomas, director of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office Dispute Resolution Center. They are the proud parents of twin sons, Sebastián y Sinclair, who graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Contacto

866 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 En. Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 974-2222
(213) 680-3283 Fax

Enviar e-mail a: seconddistrict@bos.lacounty.gov