After being born in Silver Silver, Maryland to Puerto Rican parents, David Bracer-Negron moved to Ponce, Puerto Rico, with his parents, when he was 2 years and 10 months old. David grew up in Puerto Rico. David played amateur baseball and was trained by legendary negro league player Frank Coimbre and by the former New York Yankee shortstop Bucky Dent. He played in the Francisco Coimbre Baseball School in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and the Bucky Dent's Baseball School in Florida. David also played Senior Baseball (MSBL/MABL) and Softball in New York, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Cuba. David, who was an Infielder and Catcher was trained by various coaches with experience in the old legendary Negro Leagues and Caribbean Winter Leagues, and MLB. Among David's coaches were Frank ( Pancho) Coimbre, Juan Guilbe, Digno Navarro, Julio Gotay, Bucky Dent, Larry Hoskins, and Gary Robert Tuck. David's original plan was to become a professional baseball player.
David attended the Colegio Santísima Trinidad ( Holy Trinity School) an Episcopal-Anglican Church School from Kinder to 9th grade in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and studied for one year and a half (10 and 11 grade) in the Colegio Ponceño ( a private Catholic Church School). He completed his High School by attending a Special Course at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico ( ProVet) and completed the GED Test requirements in order to receive his High School Diploma in 1985. David Bracer began his college years at CUTPO a local college in Ponce part of the University of Puerto Rico System and later he transferred to the UPR Main Campus in San Juan ( UPR Rio Piedras) he finally decided to transfer to the Catholic University of Puerto Rico where David completed a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Management and Finance and later a Law Degree from the same university in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He graduated with honors. In 1989 and 1992 he interrupted his studies and lived for a short period of time in Maryland and New York City. In the mid-1980s. During those years, he also completed a one year Computer programming certification from the Institute of Bank and Commerce of Puerto Rico.
David traveled constantly between Puerto Rico and the United States, especially during summers, to study or play baseball in different places. Among the Summer Schools, he attended were Temple University in 1987, Yale University in 1989, Harvard University in 1992, Columbia University and Georgetown University in 1993, and Summers in Spain and Argentina sponsored by the Southwestern School of Law and the William and Mary School of Law. David also did a European University Tour with the University of Puerto Rico in 1988. David completed his Bachelor in Business in 1993 and his Law Degree in 1999 while also working part-time as a paralegal for his father and other lawyers. After graduating in 1999 he moved to New York City where he attended St John's University Graduate Law LLM Program.
In the 1990s David had the opportunity of participating in an internship for two months in Buenos Aires, Argentina Juzgado N.° 9 where he served as Law Clerk for Judge Eduardo José Cardenas who was at the time one of the most important experts in Family Law in Latin America, David also participated of the William and Mary’s School of Law Summer in Madrid Spain Program where he studied during the Summer of 1995 European Union Business and Constitutional Law advanced courses at the CEU San Pablo University School. During his last year at Law School in Puerto Rico as part of his clinical practice program, David served one semester as a law clerk at Puerto Rico’s Court of Appeal working for Judge Roberto González Rivera. At the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, he studied three political science courses with Jose Arsenio Torres (a former Secretary of Education of Puerto Rico), and some social sciences courses with the controversial political leader Juan Mari Bras. At the Catholic Univeristy of Puerto Rico David was also student of Félix Lázaro Martínez, Bishop of Ponce and Argentinean Professor Néstor Juan Gómez Beretta an expert in theology and philosophy. At the UPR he studied Spanish and Puerto Rican Literature with Prof Socorro Giron and history with Professors Carlos Zapata, Professor Carlos Ramos Mattei and Professor Gonzalo Córdoba. One of David Bracer-Negron's classmates in College was the former Governor of Puerto Rico Alejandro Garcia Padilla. Garcia-Padilla's family in Ponce, the Garcia-Ramirez ( Uncle and cousins of Garcia-Padilla), were for years across the street neighbors and friends of the Bracer Family, and both families used to live close to the Evangelical Church and Community Main offices in Ponce where David's grandfather used to work. David's family also lived in a small house across the street from the original building of the El Dia newspaper on Salud Street in Ponce where his father also had his first law office and the family also lived at The Castillo Street where his father had his second law office, close to the old Charles H Terry Baseball Stadium and close to the home and office of former Governor of Puerto Rico Rafael Hernandez Colon. As an adult, David also worked as a Bankruptcy Paralegal for Cuban American Lawyer Pelayo Duran in Miami, Florida, and also worked as a Legal Assistant for Lawyer Juan Muñiz Belbrú in Ponce, Puerto Rico. David Bracer's Law Degree professors included Alcides Oquendo, Pedro Ortiz Alvarez, Raúl Serrano Geyls, Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, Rubén T. Nigaglioni-Mignucci, Hector Cuprill, Ivan Ayala-Cadiz, Rosario del Pilar Fernández Vera, Ramón Antonio Guzmán, Juan David Vilaró Colón and Juan Gelpí Barrios. David Bracer-Negron received 1999-2000 the Yamil Galib Frangie Award from the Catholic University of Puerto Rico for his work in Legal Analysis and Research.
David completed a Law Degree from Puerto Rico and served as a law clerk for one year in New York City for federal bankruptcy Judge Arthur J Gonzalez. Judge Gonzalez handled the Chrysler LLC bankruptcy case until his retirement and presided over the famous bankruptcy proceedings for WorldCom, at that point the largest U.S. bankruptcy case, and Enron Corporation. Gonzalez also worked as a trustee during the Eastern Airline Bankruptcy proceedings. Judge Gonzalez developed a friendship with David as a result of both being super baseball fans. Judge Gonzalez is the son of a former Cuban Sport Journalist and a long term fan of the Dodgers. Judge Gonzalez later became a member of the PROMESA oversight board in charge of resolving the Puerto Rican government-debt crisis.
Nevertheless, due to the lack of opportunities found in the legal world, and like his father Harry, David's lack of participation in the Political Process both in Puerto Rico and the United States, David's neutrality regarding Puerto Rico's political status and sound ethical values, many times the victim of envy like his father was before, this combined with the economic and employment crisis in the Island forced David by destiny to put an end to his legal career.
After abandoning his legal career, David joined The TSA Department of Homeland Security for two years as an Airport Security screener, and eventually joined the U.S Department of State while returning to school to study, Real Estate, Multimedia, Game Design, Animation, TV, and Film first at the San Diego City College and eventually at Full Sail University from where he received a second and third degree in Game Design, Multimedia, Animation, and Cinematography. David is a big fan of Scifi Movies and his professional life has gravitated little by little to the entertainment and media sectors.
David Bracer has lived in Puerto Rico, Florida, Maryland, New York City, California, and Texas, he is related to Sergio Negron Collazo ( uncle, mother's brother) a famous radio broadcaster and, professional baseball administrator and entertainment producer from Ponce, Puerto Rico during the 1950, 1960 and 1970s, and to Rafael L Torres ( uncle, aunt's husband) also a famous radio and tv anchorman-broadcaster and media manager from Ponce, Puerto Rico. Torres worked for Rikavision TV, WKAQ Radio and some other stations in NY and PR. ( Rafael L Torres is partially portrayed in the Movie "Life of Sin" by actor Henry Darrow) Rafael L. Torres was Channel 7’s WRIK-Rikavision TV’s manager when the famous Cerro Maravilla murders incident happened at Channel 7’s main antennas and transmitters in the mountains of Ponce-Villalba. David is also related to Ruth Natal a well-known pianist during the 1930s and 1940s in PR ( one of the last silent movies pianist in Puerto Rico and back up pianist to the former Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis A. Ferre who was also in his youth a theater pianist) . David is also related to Georgina Agramonte-Bracer wife of famous Cuban singer Vicentico Valdes and great-granddaughter of Cuban revolutionary Ignacio Agramonte. David's great-grandfather Francisco Montalvo was an owner of a hats factory in PR and a member of Luis Munoz Rivera's Party. David's Mother's side family's main business was a barbershop in Ponce, Puerto Rico. David's Grandfather Sergio Negron-Hernandez ( who died when he was only 44 years old) had a barbershop in Ponce named "Aurea" (David's Mother's name). David's mother's stepfather and David's step-grandfather also was barber, Felipe Catala, who owned the first barbershop in a Shopping Center in Puerto Rico ( Santa Maria's Shopping Center in Ponce) Felipe Catala, David's step-grandfather also worked many years as a hairdresser for the US military in different US Army bases, and had a small convenience store called "La Casa Susana". David's uncle and Godfather William Bracer-Natal is a prestigious medical doctor-surgeon from the Southern part of Puerto Rico and David's father was a Bankruptcy Law Lawyer sole practitioner for many years.
David A. Bracer-Negron 
