By Elvira Arellano LatinaLista Editor's Note: Mexican immigrant Elvira Arellano gained international notoriety in 2006 when she sought sanctuary from deportation in a Chicago church. She was eventually deported back to her native Mexico but not before she was named…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: This post is part of the Blog Carnival #MoreThanALabel: Immigrant Stories, Simmons College’s online MSW Program’s campaign to promote transcending labels ) “We are a nation of immigrants” used to mean something….
By Sophia Campos VoiceBox Media All my life I’ve lived between two worlds. As a Mexican-American, it’s easy to be confused as to which world you think you should identify with more; I feel undoubtedly Mexican-American when I make…
By Mayra Beltrán de Daetz LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: On October 25,2015, Guatemalans went to the polls to vote for their country’s next president after a series of events highlighting the country’s level of corruption was exposed when Guatemalan officials…
By Magdalena Loredo LatinaLista During my sophomore year of high school, I was determined to drive, to work and to go to college immediately after high school. But during the two years until I graduated, I realized I was…
By Ivan G Marte LatinaLista Google Rafael Edward Cruz and you’ll get a variety of information regarding this ambitious presidential candidate. Following the Beltway media coverage on Mr. Cruz, one has to read between the lines to comprehend…
By Marcela Figueroa LatinaLista When I was a kid, as all kids in Mexico that went to public schools, I used to sing a song for Cristopher Colombus on October the 12th every year. The song used to say…
By Stephanie Canales LatinaLista My story with Planned Parenthood is a love story. I’m an immigrant from El Salvador, and I’ve been in the Fresno (California) area for eight years. Soon after I arrived here, I began my…
By Maryam Adamu and Lauren Hogan LatinaLista The term “school-to-prison pipeline” has become a powerful metaphor to capture the processes by which children—typically low-income children of color—are pushed out of school and into the criminal justice system. While…
By Nidhi Thakar & Mark Magaña LatinaLista What do our national parks mean to us? As we approach the National Park Service's centennial, this question becomes especially relevant. For American Latinos, having the National Park System be a storyteller…
By Marcela Figueroa LatinaLista Yes, Donald Trump is probably the most irritating character in American politics in at least two decades. Yes, he has been at the top of the Republican polls for the last couple of months. Yes,…
By Cecile Richards LatinaLista Today is National Pink Out Day, when millions of people will stand up to support Planned Parenthood and fight back against baseless attacks on reproductive health care. Some people will attend one of the…
By Maira Isabel Morales LatinaLista Puerto Ricans – and Hispanics generally – are passionate about food. We have a famous saying: “Where one eats, 10 do”. We always make more than enough food, just in case someone comes along….
By Hon. Henry F. De Sio, Jr LatinaLista This Op-Ed first appeared and was featured as the "Editor's Pick" on the Thomson Reuters website. Something transformative is happening in our schools. Changemaking and empathy are fast taking their places alongside reading…
By Patricia Campos-Medina LatinaLista I have spent most of my professional life in the leadership ranks of labor and politics and for most of that time I felt I was the only woman in the room. I never…
By Erik De La Cruz LatinaLista I blankly stared at my computer with San Diego State University’s homepage open. I hesitated to click into the admission status. I breathed deeply. My education’s fate awaited me after the click. Denied….
By Azul Uribe LatinaLista It’s been a few weeks of soul searching and conversation between myself and God. During a 4 hour drive from Cancun to Merida, I took advantage of the nighttime darkness and the starry stretches of…
By Christine Eber and Ana Cristina Vázquez Carpizo LatinaLista Christine Eber and Ana Cristina Vázquez Carpizo met in Chiapas, Mexico through their work with the Maya Educational Foundation which provides scholarships to Maya students in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala….
By Arkady Bukh, Esq LatinaLista (Editor’s Note:The following is an excerpt from the full article which can be found online at nyccriminallawyer.com) When he announced his candidacy for the American presidency, Donald Trump delivered remarks that have echoed across…
By Farah Z. Ahmad and Tiffany D. Miller Center for American Progress Today’s students will be tomorrow’s workers. As such, high student achievement is the benchmark, not only for an individual’s prosperity, but also for the prosperity of the…
By Sarina Prabasi LatinaLista On my first visit to Nicaragua, I was astonished by its beauty. I was headed to one of the most geographically and culturally isolated parts of the country, situated along the Miskito Coast. The marine…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista (Editor’s note: The following post originally appeared on the author’s blog Mundo Citizen.) It has been a busy year and part of the reason for writing sporadically is because activism has become a priority in…
By Carolyn Muñoz LatinaLista The disparity in the workforce at technology companies is discouraging. While many technology giants work hard at inclusion, some just aren’t building teams who are the best they could be in the technology game. In…
By Veronica Vargas Stidvent LatinaLista Employers know that the challenges businesses face finding workers who are skilled, educated and ready to succeed in some of the high-demand fields such as health care, high tech and STEM fields tempers the…
By Yvette Donado LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: Yvette Donado, SVP and Chief Administrative Officer of Educational Testing Services, delivered the following address at the annual conference of the National Association of Elementary School Principals on July 1. It has been…
