Ana B. Quezada | |
State Senate: | Rhode Island |
District: | 2nd[1] |
Term Start: | January 3, 2017[2] |
Predecessor: | Juan Pichardo |
Successor: | Incumbent |
Birth Date: | 23 April 1965[3] |
Birth Place: | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Nationality: | American |
Party: | Democratic |
Spouse: | Lazaro Quezada (m. 1997) |
Children: | 3 |
Ana B. Quezada is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Rhode Island Senate representing District 2 (Providence) since January 2017. She is a code enforcement officer for the Providence Department of Inspection and Standards. Before that she was a social services coordinator at the John Hope Settlement House.
In 2018, she sued the City of Providence, alleging that they retaliated against her for accusing a superior of alleged discrimination against a Hispanic electrical inspector.[4]
Quezada endorsed Sabina Matos in the 2022 Rhode Island lieutenant gubernatorial election.[5]
On April 6, 2023, Quezada announced that she would be a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in a special election to succeed fellow Democrat David Cicilline.[6]
She is married and has three children.