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The vigilant visionary: Roger Rivera: Chairman, NLCCC.(OPEN INTERVIEW)(Interview)

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Roger Rivera, President and Founder of the National Hispanic Environmental Council (NHEC), and Chair of the National Latino Coalition on Climate Change (NLCCC), is an urbanist. Born in the Bronx and raised in Queens by a Cuban mother and Puerto Rican father, it wasn't until his family moved to Phoenix that he fell in love with the environment. "My dad worked for General Electric and when I was eight he was transferred to Arizona. Up to that point I was a city kid, my exposure to nature was limited to playing spitball in the park,' laughs Rivera. 'We traveled by car cross country, and that trip forever changed me; it opened my eyes to the beauty and ...

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