Fortunas' Candidacy

Vini and Lorena Fortuna are running for 2 of the 9 Southtown positions in the RIRA Council. They are a couple from Brazil that has been living on the Island for 3 years and loves it! They were recently featured in an article about Roosevelt Island real estate and lifestyle in The New York Times. Before moving to Riverwalk, they lived for 2 years in Manhattan Park.
Vinicius ("Vini") Fortuna is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, with great technology expertise. He has developed a Bus Tracker application for the community, set up a Roosevelt Island search engine, renewed the Island Cats website and migrated it to a much better infrastructure that could be maintained even by the less tech-savvy members of the group.
Lorena Fortuna is a Civil and Environmental Engineer, working on the restoration of the Williamsburg bridge. She is a very active member in the Island Cats group, where she has been involved with a number of projects (fostering, adoption, shelter, feeding, website update and maintenance).

Together, they will bring energy, new ideas and new perspectives to RIRA. They will promote a more open channel of communication between community, RIRA Council and RIOC, wider and smarter use of technology, environmental awareness, and other things.

 The Election is over! 

Check out the Common Council Results.

Lorena got the most votes for Southtown! Vini got the 8th spot. Both were elected!

Thanks everyone for all the support you gave us!

Contact

If you have any questions, or would like to provide us your request or feedback, send us an email at lvfortuna+rira@gmail.com.

More info

Unfortunately there's no official website for RIRA and the election.  We want to change that! 
Meanwhile, we collected some information from different sources that may be useful for voters. See About RIRA and Election Details.
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