Meet the Team
Alfredo M. Vidal, M.P.A.
PartnerMr. Vidal has succeeded in the both the private and public sectors by crafting valuable solutions to complex government issues. He has served as president of The Vidal Group, LLC, representing a diverse client base on issues including health care, small business development and labor, since 2005.
Prior to running his own successful lobbying firm, Mr. Vidal was a founding partner of Brown, Vidal and Weinraub, LLC. He had formerly been a senior associate with Weinraub and Ostroff, and earlier served as an ombudsman for the New York State Secretary of State, the director of finance for the Division of Human Rights, assistant director of Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs for Governor Cuomo and senior internal auditor for the Department of Transportation.
Mr. Vidal received a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University in International Relations and Spanish Language, Literature and Culture. He earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is a founding board member of Voto Latino, which is dedicated to empowering the Latino Community through the use of technology to encourage voting across the United States.
Born in El Barrio and raised in the South Bronx, Dan Irizarry is a writer, community activist and founder of Capital District Latino Advocacy Through Inter-Neighborhood Outreach Services (CD LATINOS or CDL). Founded in 2011, CDL is a proud affiliate of the Acacia Network, the state’s largest Latino-led health and human services not-for-profit (second largest nationally). In December of 2017, CDL acquired the former St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and repurposed the building as the CDL Cultural Empowerment & Community Engagement Center—the only area Latino-owned institution of its kind in the Capital Region.
Dan’s writing has been published in the Albany Times Union, Schenectady Gazette, as well as the New York State Writers Institute Trolley Literary Journal. He is also a frequent guest on WAMC’s The Roundtable radio program.