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Rey M. Rodríguez is a twenty seven year veteran of The Walt Disney Company. As an attorney, Rey serves the global theatrical distribution arm of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, covering the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He is fluent in Spanish, which has played an important role in managing issues and developing relationships in Latin America and Spain. Previous to his work at Disney, Rey was an attorney at Paul Hastings. In addition to his professional career, Rey feels an important obligation to give back to his community. He is a 20 plus year board member of Proyecto Pastoral at Dolores Mission, a non-profit organization in East Los Angeles serving the needs of Boyle Heights. He is a board member of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, dedicated to advocating in the courts and through legislation for California’s poor. He is a member of the board of Family Foothill Services, which is a nonprofit that provides mental health services to needy families throughout the San Gabriel Valley. He was a member of Grupo Educa, one of the few Spanish language heritage schools in Los Angeles, dedicated to ensuring that subsequent generations of Spanish speakers retain their ability to speak, write and read Spanish. He has written extensively on the need for more Spanish language heritage schools to be established in Los Angeles and across the country. He has been published in UCLA’s Heritage Language Journal. Through the Disney Legal Department Pro Bono Program, Rey has provided legal services to two unaccompanied minors who ultimately received their permanent residency to study, work and live in the United States. Rey has achieved a bachelor of arts in economics from Cornell University, a master’s in public affairs from Princeton University and JD from University of California at Berkeley. He has climbed Mt. Whitney five times, each time in one day. He is a black belt in Aikido. He is blessed to be married to Vivian Rodríguez Godoy and has two boys, Diego and Pablo. He was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up in Durango, Colorado.