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Brittney Millard: Helping Patients and Persevering Through Breast Cancer
Cancer can be many things. Some describe cancer as a journey, a struggle, or a fight. For Brittney Millard, a breast cancer diagnosis was a life-changing event that gave her the passion to help other cancer survivors. “It’s really what’s in your heart. You can [help] people you know in your daily life, just spreading ...
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Nancy Willard: Teaching Personal Empowerment and Resilience to Fight Bullying
Nancy Willard knows that the way educators are taught to handle bullying isn’t working, especially when it comes to cybe…
Increasing Recognition
Kendra Gage: Teaching Implicit Bias and Anti-Racism in the Classroom
Kendra Gage starts off all her new classes addressing one obvious fact: she’s white. That’s because Gage is a professor…
Increasing Recognition
Cheryl Aguilar: Providing Mental Health Support to Families with Immigration Trauma
Immigration is difficult and often traumatic. People who immigrate to the U.S. often face a dangerous journey only to be…
Embracing All People, Mental Health
Wendy Mateo-Pascual: Advocating for Latino Civic Engagement in her Community
Wendy Mateo-Pascual is passionate about helping Latino immigrants. She understands how difficult it is to move to a new…
Increasing Civic Engagement
Jennifer Rangel: Creating Bilingual Cartoons to Teach Zoning 101
“Ever wondered why your neighborhood looks how it does?” Jennifer Rangel once asked herself this question. To find an an…
Air Quality, Chemical & Toxic Exposure, Green & Active Spaces, Housing, Transportation & Mobility
Christina Duarte: Creating Virtual Health Classes to Fight the Pandemic in Laredo, Texas
Since childhood, Christina Duarte has wanted to help people. Helping people is why she became chief of health education…
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9 Amazing Latino Contributions to Urban Space, Presented by James Rojas
Since James Rojas was child, he has been fascinated with urban spaces like streets, sidewalks, plazas, storefronts, yard…
Green & Active Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
Héctor Rodríguez: Bringing Latino Representation to the Comic Book World
To his students, he’s Mr. Rodríguez. To his fans, he’s the creator and author of the comic book and graphic novel series…
Embracing All People, Increasing Recognition
Jennifer Morris Brings Hispanic Heritage Month to her English Language Learners
You probably haven’t heard of Jennifer Morris. She’s an English Language Learner teacher at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementa…
Embracing All People
Denise Hernández: Finding Herself by Unlearning Implicit Bias and Embracing Her Chicana Heritage
Denise Hernández is a proud Chicana and a 5th generation San Antonian. She is the founder of Maestranza, an organization…
Increasing Recognition