Arunan Arulampalam elected as the Mayor of Hartford in Connecticut

Los Angeles, Nov 09, 2023
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Arunan Arulampalam is from a Tamil family. His parents fled Sri Lanka in July 1983, at the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War.They moved to England, where they married, and settled in Zimbabwe. Arunan was born in Bulawayo in 1985. The family relocated to California. Arulampalam earned his bachelor's degree from Emory University and earned his law degree from Quinnipiac University School of Law.

In 2014, Arulampalam joined the law firm Updike, Kelly & Spellacy and was an associate with the firm for five years.Governor Ned Lamont appointed Arulampalam to be a deputy commissioner in the Department of Consumer Protection. In July 2021, he became the chief executive officer of the Hartford Land Bank, a non-profit aiming to reduce urban blight.

Arunan Arulampalam is the CEO of the Hartford Land Bank, where we take the City’s vacant and blighted properties and train Hartford residents to redevelop them. By investing in our own residents we aren’t just changing structures, we are building wealth among Hartford residents, creating opportunities for homeownership, and rebuilding our communities from within. I am running for Mayor because each and every one of us has the power to determine what the future of this city looks like. And through this election we will empower our communities, we will show the strength of our voice.

Before joining the Land Bank I served in the Lamont Administration as Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, and before then was a lawyer downtown at the firm of Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C. I live in the Frog Hollow neighborhood in a formerly vacant and blighted house with my wife and our five small kids. My wife Liza is the Senior Minister of the First Church of Christ (Center Church) in Hartford. I am on the Board of the Hartford Public Library and the House of Bread, and am on the Hartford Redevelopment Authority.