District Attorney’s Office honors three during Hispanic Heritage Month ceremony
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and his office hosted its own Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at Brooklyn Law School on Tuesday and honored three people including keynote speaker Dr. Guillermo Linares.
Assistant District Attorneys Julieanne Yanez and Kenneth Carbajal served as the masters of ceremony for the event which also included speakers Diego Gomez Jaramillo, president of the BLS Student Bar Association, and Senior Assistant DA Giannina Berrocal. There were also musical performances by Asoyi Rumba.
In addition to Linares, this year’s honorees included Annie Minguez, director of government and community relations for Good Shepherd Services and members of the New York Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Response System.
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View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.