Evandro C. Carvalho (born September 9, 1981) is an American attorney and politician who served in the

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from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party and represented the Fifth Suffolk District, comprising the Dorchester neighborhood of

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Early life and education

Carvalho was born in

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. He emigrated to

when he was 15 years old. After graduating from Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in legal studies from the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, ...

and a

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from the

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Career

He worked in the office of the Suffolk County District Attorney as an assistant district attorney from 2011 to 2013. He won the Democratic Party

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for the Fifth Suffolk seat on April 1, 2014, and was unopposed in the general election on April 29, winning with around 739 votes. He was sworn in May 14. In 2018, Carvalho did not run for re-election in his seat, instead launching a campaign for the Democratic nomination for Suffolk County District Attorney. He lost the primary to

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, finishing third in a field of five candidates.

Other activities

In 2006 he was a legal intern with the Immigration Law Project at South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Inc. in

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. From 2007 to 2010 he was a summer associate and later associate with

WilmerHale Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, also known as Hale & Dorr and WilmerHale, is an international law firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. It is co-headquartered in Washington, D.C. and Boston. It was formed in 2004 thr ...

. From 2013 to 2014, he was a field legal counsel with Liberty Mutual Insurance. From 2011 to 2014 he served on the board of directors of Teen Empowerment. Since August 2019 he has served as executive director of the Boston Human Rights Commission.

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