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photo:\u00a0 golocalprov.com<\/em><\/p>\n PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 By day, Carmen Castillo works as a hotel housekeeper, making beds and cleaning rooms. By night, she’s sitting on committees and voting on decisions at City Hall \u2014 she was recently re-elected to the Providence City Council. photo:\u00a0 golocalprov.com PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 By day, Carmen Castillo works as a hotel housekeeper, making beds and cleaning rooms. 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\nSitting at her kitchen table, Castillo laughed with her friend and assistant Martha Siddique when recalling her\u00a0re-election campaign.
\n“This was headquarters,” Castillo said, gesturing around her home. “We moved the couches in the living room, hung up charts on the wall, and all the volunteers came over. We would go out knocking on doors in the rain, and then stay up working until 3 a.m.”
\n“We were always tired,” Siddique added, “because we had to go to work the next day.”
\nOriginally from the Dominican Republic, Castillo immigrated with her three daughters to the U.S. in 1994. After working in a factory, she took a job as a room attendant in a downtown Providence hotel, a job she has held for 24 years. At the hotel, she helped organize a union and became an activist for workers.
\nAfter being active in her community and her union for many years, she was\u00a0elected to the City Council<\/a>\u00a0in 2011, then re-elected in 2014 and 2018.
\nAt the local level, Castillo embodies the trend of political candidates becoming more diverse\u2026
\nTo read the complete story:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/amp\/ncna948751?__twitter_impression=true\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"