his untimely death in 1994. Other PRSSA founding members who have been prominent in later life include Francisco Cimadevilla, former Editor-in-Chief at Casiano Communications and current advisor to Gov. Fortuño, Ricardo Skerrett, an immigration attorney in Tampa, Florida and Manuel De Juan, a former assistant director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company and current advisor to the Fortuño administration. Second generation The PRSSA was dormant from 1981 until 1993, when another group of pro-statehood students led by Oreste R. Ramos, Rogelio Carrasquillo, Roberto Velázquez, Jorge E. Souss, Juan Carlos Galá and Mario Gaztambide reactivated the Association. Former PRSSA president Kenneth McClintock, elected to the Puerto Rico Senate in 1992, helped steer this new incarnation of the PRSSA. Ramos, a student at the University of Pennsylvania and the son of former Puerto Rico Senator Oreste Ramos, presided over the Association from 1993 to 1995 and organized the absentee voting campaign for the 1993 status plebiscite in Puerto Rico. Carrasquillo then presided over the PRSSA from 1995 to 1997 and coordinated the absentee voting campaign that contributed to the reelection of then-Governor Pedro Rosselló in 1996. The organization returned to inactivity after 1997. Third generation José Cabrera and William-José Vélez reactivated the PRSSA in November 2007. On that same year, Javier Aguilú, an undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida, joined forces and helped the organization gain momentum. Cabrera, a University of Dayton School of Law student, served as the Association's fifth president from November 2007 to June 2009. Along with Vice President Velez, Cabrera reestablished chapters nationwide, waged a campaign for young voters in the 2008 Puerto Rican election cycle, launched an educational campaign on statehood throughout Puerto Rico's universities, and began work on the internet-based José Celso Barbosa Statehood Library. Raúl Vidal y Sepulveda, enrolled at American University's Washington College of Law, began serving as the sixth president in June 2009 and has organized a campaign in support of HR 2499, the Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009. He later assumed the post of Assistant Secretary for International Affairs in Puerto Rico's Department of Economic Development and Commerce. Now he is a partner in the private economic development consulting firm, Brickstone Holdings, LLC. 2008 Campaign for Young Voters The PRSSA waged a voter registration campaign during the winter of 2007–2008 in preparation for the March 2008 primaries of the New Progressive Party, Puerto Rico's pro-statehood party. PRSSA helped mobilize