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Cortada se youn avoka, ou man-m nan
Inivesite Miyami, epi tou li se ou sitwayen angaje nan batay pep depi plis ke di zan. Li fet nan Albany, Eta New York. Li vinni viv nan Miyami le li te gen twa zan. Depi jou sa-a li rete nan Miyami. Li te lekol nan Miyami High School, li fe kolej
li nan Inivesite Miyami, li pran diplom avoka’l ak bizinis la’a tou.
 Cortada se gwo tet Komite Jivenil Dade County Bar
Association. Li te chef komite sa’a nan lane 1994-1997. Misye travay nan pwogram Violans ak Delenkans
Jivenil nan Pwogram Prevansyon nan Inivesite Miyami, Sant Detid Lafanmi. Li travay la’a tou kom youn asistan profese. Li te koodinate oganizasyon Floridian for Access
to Justice, ou pwoje ke The Florida Bar, The Florida Bar Foundation and the Florida Legal
Services te mete sou pie pou pwoteje fon federal pou oganizasyon ki rele Legal Services
Corporation nan. Pandan siclon-n Andre ya li
te sevi kom Direkte oganizasyon Local Initiative Support Sorporation (LISC) South Dade
Development Program ki batay pou yo pote
pwogram kay bon mache nan Sid Conte Dade la. Le
te Direkte Regis House, ki se you sant ki ede jen-n ti adolesan ki pran dwog.
 Cortada
se youn militan ki pa janm fatige batay pou jistis ak delenkans jivenil. Li te man-m komite egzekitif Dade County Juvenile
Council, li te youn nan gwo tet ki te gen ou wol enpotan nan nivo federal ak minicipal nan
travay komite sou zafe jen-n moun ki nan aktiviti gang.
Jodiya, li man-m Advisory Board University of Miami School of Law’s Children
and Youth Law Clinic. Li se youn
nan gwo tet ki paticipe nan Voice Project – youn pwogram terapi ki represante ti moun
ki pat janm jwen-n moun represante yo anvan, nan tet chaje delenkans ak dwog.
 Cortada se youn koken-nshen-n
atis ki chaje ak talan. Zev li kanpe sou zafe sosyal ak coze legal. Tet chaje ki anvayi kay nou tankou: ti moun yo
jije tankou gran moun, pwoblem dwog ak alkol, pwoblem imigrasyon, e violans nan fanmi. Li pote bel pawol li yo nan anpil peyi etranje, le
l’al fe konferans nan Ambasad Etazini yo.
Li se youn
mam-m nan Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board, en tan ke Chef Komite Forum la. Epitou, li se youn Direkte nan Spanish American
League Against Discrimination (SALAD) e Board of Trustees of the Historical Museum of
Southern Florida.
Cortada
resevwa anpil pri: Pri US State Department’s “Millennium International Volunteer
Award,” e en 1999 li resevwa pri pou Outstanding Achievement Award of the Florida
Association of Volunteer Agencies for Caribbean Action (FAVACA).
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