He serves as a member of the Immigration Committee of the New York City Bar Association and serves on the board of the Queens Legal Services Corporation. In 1999 he founded New Immigrant Community Empowerment, Inc. (NICE), a New York City based cross-cultural, non-profit immigrant service and advocacy organization that works to ensure that new immigrants are informed, active and influential in civic, governmental and public affairs. He also founded the Community Journal Legal and Education Fund, a nonprofit economic and community economic development initiative in Queens that publishes a fully bilingual Spanish-English newspaper and sponsors community workshops and programs, including the annual Jackson Heights Film and Food Festival, a customer loyalty program to support local neighborhood merchants, and the Jackson Heights Clean Streets initiative.