Ricardo Nazario y Colón

Ricardo Nazario y Colón
Born	1967 South Bronx, New York
Occupation	Poet Higher Education Administrator
Children	Has two children

Ricardo Nazario y Colón (born 1967) is a Puerto Rican poet, artist, higher education administrator, author, language teacher, and former United States Marine.

Ricardo Nazario y Colón was born in 1967 in the old Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx to Francisca Colón Lopez, a waitress, and Benito Reinaldo Nazario Acosta, a piano finisher. He is a poet, environmental justice advocate and diversity consultant from the South Bronx area of New York City. He has two older brothers, Roberto and Oscar, a younger brother, Jonath Colon (FKA Ismael), and two younger sisters, Maritza and Solmelissa. In 2011 he was appointed by the Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear to serve on the state's Native American Heritage Commission.

Ricardo Nazario y Colón attended Jesus T. Piñero primary school in Carruzos, Puerto Rico and Lou Gehrig I.S. 151 in the South Bronx. After attending the DeWitt Clinton High School where he lettered in Cross Country and Track, he entered Fordham University in 1984 to study computer science on a Track Scholarship and lettered his freshmen year. In 1985 he entered the United States Marine Corps and trained at Parris Island, South Carolina and graduated as a Private First Class. In 1992 he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Kentucky in Latin American Studies and Spanish Literature. In 1996, he received a Master of Science from Pace University (NY).

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