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Evandro C. Carvalho '04

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Professional Title: 

Assistant District Attorney, Suffolk County DA

Degree: 

BA, Legal Studies

Bio: 

Evandro C. Carvalho ’04 spent much of his childhood herding goats, building a chicken farm, and serving as a shepherd to cattle on his grandfather’s farm in Cape Verde. Although the manual labor taught him a lot about hard work—rising before dawn, working with his hands, and persisting day after day—in some ways, finding ways to get out of the work taught him more: “whenever I could, I'd use the ‘I have to study’ excuse,” Carvalho reflects. That focus on academics prepared him well for UMass. Read more

Graduation Year: 

2004

Program: 

  • Legal Studies