Ana Irma Rivera Lassén
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén is running for Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner, which serves as Puerto Rico’s non-voting member in the U.S. Congress.
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén is a lawyer, feminist activist, author and human rights advocate who currently serves as Minority Leader in the Puerto Rico Senate. From 2012 to 2014, she served as President of the Puerto Rican Bar Association, being the third woman to achieve this, the first Afro-descendant and the first person from the LGBTQ+ community.
From 2015 to 2019, Rivera Lassén also presided over the citizen movement “Vamos Puerto Rico.” In 2020 and 2023 she was named by USA TODAY as one of the Women of the Century and Women of the Year, respectively, for being one of the most influential women in the US territories.
Running for:
Resident Commissioner
Location:
Puerto Rico