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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG), a global asset management company, today announced the appointment of Félix V. Matos Rodríguez to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
As Chancellor of City University of New York, Dr. Matos Rodríguez leads the nation’s largest urban university, which has 25 campuses across New York City’s five boroughs and a student body of 275,000. Recognized as an innovative leader within academia and the public sector, Dr. Matos Rodríguez has served as a teacher, administrator, and former Cabinet secretary for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Prior to his appointment as Chancellor, Dr. Matos Rodríguez was president of CUNY’s Queens College and of CUNY’s Eugenio María de Hostos Community College in the Bronx. He sits on the governing board of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and additionally serves on the boards of Phipps H
When I first read the word Latinx, I did what I always do when I hear or read a new word. I looked up the definition. I learned that it’s a newly coined word, a gender-neutral term, used to refer to people of Hispanic or Latin cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. It is used to be more inclusive. It replaces the -a or -o ending in Latino or Latina. After I looked up the definition, I started hearing and reading the word Latinx more often. I also started incorporating the word into my vocabulary and on my radio show.