José Cabrera Costas
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José Cabrera Costas (born September 30, 1984) is a student and political activist from Puerto Rico. He is the current President of the Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association (PRSSA), and is affiliated with the New Progressive Party (NPP).
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[edit] Education
Cabrera Costas attended Colegio San José High School of San Juan, Puerto Rico, graduating with honors in 2002. He then received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in History and Political Science from the University of Dayton. In 2006, he enrolled at the University of Dayton’s School of Law and expects his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 2009. While in law school, Cabrera has been a member of Honor Council and Moot Court, and was an intern in the District Office of Congressman Luis Fortuño, 2008 NPP gubernatorial nominee and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.[1]
[edit] PRSSA
In 2007, along with other current college students on the mainland United States, Cabrera engineered the rebirth of the Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association. This association was instrumental in helping secure Puerto Rico Governor Carlos Romero Barceló's razor-thin reelection in 1980, when PRSSA provided absentee ballots representing about half of the Governor's approximately 3,000-vote victory margin. [2]
In addition to repopulating PRSSA's board of directors, recruiting members and organizing chapters throughout the United States, Cabrera along with William-José Vélez González have placed PRSSA on the internet with an emerging website[3], as well as augmenting its presence on several web-meeting sites such as Facebook and Myspace [4]or the video-sharing website YouTube[5]. Cabrera also organizes an official PRSSA blog on WordPress.
Through PRSSA, Cabrera also seeks to organize the absentee balloting of registered Puerto Ricans studying in stateside colleges and universities for the 2008 NPP primary and general election. [6][7].
