On November 9, 2003, Soto Toro, along with another Puerto Rican Astronaut applicant, Henry Bursian Berríos, and Ninfa Segarra, who was the first Hispanic Deputy Mayor of New York City, were named the Grand Marshals of the Puerto Rican Day Parade held in Palm Bay, Florida.
In 1990, then Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer appointed Segarra as the borough's representative to the Board of Education.