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Eli Valentin serves as an adjunct professor at Iona University. He is a contributing columnist for Gotham Gazette, largely focusing on Latino politics in New York, and is a frequent guest political analyst at Univision NY and New York 1 News. Valentin has served as a political adviser to numerous elected officials across the country and is the editor of Sermons from the Latino/a Pulpit, and author of the forthcoming Reinhold Niebuhr and Politics (Wipf and Stock).
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