Not from Here, Not from There/No Soy de Aquí ni de Allá: The Autobiography of Nelson Díaz 

This program is co-sponsored by Friends in the City, Penn’s Village and the Philadelphia City Institute Library

No soy de aquí ni de allá” is a mantra for Puerto Ricans who feel like foreigners wherever they are and who seek a place for themselves. 

A 1972 Temple University Law School graduate, Nelson Díaz was the first Puerto Rican lawyer admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar Association and became the state’s first Latino judge and partner in a top-100 law firm. He was later appointed to a White House Fellowship by Jimmy Carter and as General Counsel to the Department of Housing and Urban Development by Bill Clinton. His honors include the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Justice Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award. 

From his childhood in a New York tenement to advocacy for human rights, housing reform, and neighborhood economic development, Not from Here, Not from There is a chronicle of Díaz’s remarkable path toward the American Dream.

Judge Díaz will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.

Register Now! Event Cost: free.  

We regret that the meeting room is not handicap accessible.The Friends of the PCI Library are raising money to install a lift to solve that problem. If you would like to help support that project go to:   http://www.freelibrary.org/pcilift

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