BIOGRAPHY Mr. Rodriguez is the President of Cimarron Associates, a full service organization providing management training to educational institutions, state, municipal and international organizations in the areas of diversity management and cultural competence.   Mr. Rodriguez has presented several papers at the Latino Task Force for Civil Rights hearings on Race Relations in response to the White House Initiative on Race. He has appeared on many radio and television programs in the Washington Metropolitan area addressing the issue of race in the Latino community. He has authored a book entitled “The Latino Manifesto: A Critique of the Race Debate in the U.S. Latino Community.” Mr. Rodriguez just served as the Afro America representative on the regional planning conference for the United Nations Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance.  Mr. Rodriguez has been an invited speaker to colleges and universities, national and international conferences throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and Latin America. Mr. Rodriguez is a native of Harlem, New York and began his career working with the Recruitment and Training Program (R-T-P) an offspring of the Civil Rights movement in the early seventies.  R-T-P was headed by Mr. Ernest Green, a member of the "Little Rock Nine," who was a major influence in Mr. Rodriguez's career pursuit in the field of Human Rights, Civil Rights and Diversity Management. Mr. Rodriguez was inspired early in his career to tackle the problems of institutional discrimination and creating programs, which addresses the lack of inclusion of Afro-Latinos abroad and in the United States. Mr. Rodriguez graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, majoring in History and Spanish.