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Ms. Rita DiMartino
Rita Dimartino was the Vice President of Congressional Relations for AT&T where she assisted in AT&T's relations with the administration, with Congress, and with state governments. DiMartino was appointed in February 2002 as the Principal U.S. Delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women and also the Principal Representative to the Inter-American Children's Institute. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed DiMartino as Ambassador to the UNICEF Executive Board. Her work as U.S. Representative included increasing UNICEF's financial support and accelerating the program's assistance in the areas of child health, nutrition, water supply, sanitation, and education. Active at all levels of Republican politics, DiMartino was elected Delegate-at-Large/Alternate Delegate to seven Republican National Conventions, served on the 1992 Platform Committee, and was elected Executive Vice Chair of The New York State Republican Committee in 1988. DiMartino is a member of: The Council on Foreign Relations; The City University of New York (CUNY) Board of Trustees; the Hispanic Council on International Relations; the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, and is the Executive Vice Chair of the Board of Bronx Lebanon Hospital. She was appointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President Bush on October 31, 2002 for a term ending September 22, 2005.
Photo credit: Rita DiMartino
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