Hector Bonilla was born in New York City, and raised in the community of Harlem, the oldest of six siblings, whose parents immigrated from Puerto Rico and Cuba. He received his Bachelor and Masters Degrees from Rutgers University, and then worked in Education for over forty-six years. Initially, he began his professional career at ASPIRA of New Jersey, working with high school students in Newark and Jersey City. Later, he taught Social Studies in New Brunswick High School and the New Brunswick Adult Learning Center, and also worked as an Adjunct Instructor at Rutgers University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He also worked as an Academic Advisor at Middlesex County College and Rutgers University.
At Rutgers, he also served as an Assistant Dean and eventually became Assistant Director of Multicultural Recruitment at the Rutgers Office of Undergraduate Admissions. During this time, he served on the Board of Directors of ASPIRA of New Jersey, the Rutgers University Paul Robeson Scholarship Committee and was a member of the Hispanic Association of Higher Education. When Mr. Bonilla left Rutgers, he returned to the Public Schools, where he worked as a Vice-Principal in Trenton and Principal in Philadelphia, Newark and Trenton, from which he retired.
In Perth Amboy, he served two years as the President of the Perth Amboy High School PTO, and later was elected to the Perth Amboy Board of Education. He was also a founding board member of the Perth Amboy Boys and Girls Club, the Perth Amboy Alliance for Community Development (PAAC), and the Academy for Urban Leadership Charter High School.
In 2008, he was asked by Wilda Diaz to be her Campaign Manager in her quest to be elected Mayor of the City of Perth Amboy. Upon her election as the first female Mayor in Perth Amboy’s history AND the first Woman of Puerto Rican descent to be elected Mayor of an American municipality, Hector Bonilla was appointed to the position of Mayor’s Aide in the City of Perth Amboy, from which he retired in January 2013.
Mr. Bonilla previously served on the Boards of Directors for the Hispanic Research and Information Center (HRIC) in Newark, and the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, and presently serves on the Boards of the Academy of Urban Leadership Charter High School and the LEAF Foundation, both in Perth Amboy and teaches History as an Adjunct Instructor for Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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