Waldo Cabrera is a businessman, a community activist and an internet news personality

Celebrity

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. He was born in Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata, often referred to as simply Puerto Plata, is the capital of the Dominican province Puerto Plata.The city is famous for resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, located east of San Felipe de Puerto Plata. There are a total of 100,000 hotel beds in the city.The only...

, Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

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 and migrated to New York City

New York City

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 aged eight.

Background

Waldo is one of four children. His parents were janitors with strict rules and work ethics. Waldo’s after school activities consisted of sweeping, mopping, packing mountains of garbage, and helping his dad unclog toilets.

His hard work and dedication quickly paid off at in New York City’s High School of Art & Design. He became a student body leader culminating as the school president

School president

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At Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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, he continued his involvement and commitment to helping fellow students adjust to college life as a Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor is an online electronic music magazine dedicated to the global dance music scene. The website won a People's Voice award in the 12th Annual Webby Awards in 2008.-Site History:...

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After receiving an advertising degree from Syracuse University, Waldo began his career in creative communication. During his 12 years at 4Kids Entertainment

4Kids Entertainment

4Kids Entertainment is an American film and television production company in bankruptcy since April 2011. It is known for English-dubbing Japanese anime and specializing in the acquisition, production and licensing of children's entertainment around the United States...

, he was part of a growth period that saw the company go from about 25 employees to over 300. First serving as creative director then as a Vice President

Vice president

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 of 4Kids Home Video, he helped establish worldwide brands such as Nintendo

Nintendo

is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....

, Ninja Turtles, Yu-Gi-Oh!

Yu-Gi-Oh!

is a Japanese manga created by Kazuki Takahashi. It has produced a franchise that includes multiple anime shows, a trading card game and numerous video games...

 and Pokémon

Pokémon

is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...

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He often speaks to kids in Washington Heights

Washington Heights, Manhattan

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, the South Bronx

South Bronx

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 and Harlem

Harlem

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 and volunteers his time at Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

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 and Dominican

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

 non-profit youth groups. In an effort to combat poverty

Poverty

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 in his hometown, he established a computer institute in Altamira, Dominican Republic. Through the Brentwood Rotary Club, The Brentwood Summit Council and Islip.TV, Waldo works on literacy

Literacy

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 and community pride programs.

In 1999 he married Sandy; they have a four-year old son, Max.

Career

After seeing news on Long Island turn more and more negative, Waldo used his experience in television and as a community activist to launch a web based TV station, MyLITV.com (Islip.TV). It focuses on the positive people and events.

Within its first year in existence, MyLITV.com won the BOLI (Best On Long Island) for Best Internet News and Best Internet Politics. At the Fair Media Council's (FOLIO Awards), MyLITV.com (Islip.TV) was the only web site to receive this journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

 award. Other honors include a Gold Award for Best Internet Segment, Outstanding Media Award from the Town of Islip and Outstanding Media Activist from the New York State Senate.

He is also the creator and owner of the websites ISLIP.TV and MyLITV.com.

In 2008, Cabrera announced his candidacy for Assemblyman in New York State's 6th Assembly District. In 2006, Waldo attempted an independent run for that same seat with the Integrity Party.

Waldo Cabrera was the Vice President of 4Kids Home Video.

Conservative Party support

The Suffolk County

Suffolk County, New York

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 Conservative Party

Conservative Party of New York

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has endorsed Cabrera.