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Rosa Herrera: Get the Vaccine for Your Family!
Rosa Herrera knows how difficult the battle with COVID-19 can be. Two of her daughters were really sick with COVID-19 in October 2020 and were hospitalized during their infections. Herrera herself got sick, too, but had a mild case. “It was really scary. I couldn’t see them and since both of them were hospitalized at ...
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Isabella Jiménez: Launching a Food App to Inspire Healthy Eating
Isabella Jiménez is only 16 years old, but she’s already an entrepreneur and app creator. In fact, she got started when…
Healthy Food
Kathryn Karam: Acknowledging Your Own Bias as a Person of Color
Kathryn Karam isn’t afraid to speak out against racism and discrimination. She thinks that everyone should address their…
Overcoming Harmful Biases
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…
Overcoming Harmful Biases
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…
Overcoming Harmful Biases
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 Immigrants, 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…
Healthcare Access
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 Immigrants, Overcoming Harmful Biases