LatinaLista — In a January study, the Pew Research Center found that Latino Millennials will make up almost half of eligible Hispanic voters in 2016. The big challenge is how to reach and motivate this group to turn out…
By Sophia Campos VoiceBox Media Perhaps since Laredo sits on the southern border, tucked away from major Texas cities, it’s easy for people to be unaware of Laredo’s role with the Central American refugees who escape drug violence…
By Ross Griffith and Victoria Robinson VoiceBox Media San Marcos is a rapidly expanding city with a severe lack of housing options for the nearly 40 percent of residents who live below the poverty level. The majority of residents…
By Ross Griffith and Victoria Robinson Voice Box Media Stability can be hard to come by for the one in four San Marcos youth living in poverty and the more than 100 children a year housed in an emergency…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Jeff Coffin and Crescent Super Band: Cuba Benefit Album Jeff Coffin is releasing a new album with Caleb Chapman’s Crescent Super Band called “Inside of the Outside”. Special guests for the album include GRAMMY-winners Victor Wooten,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Change the Latino Image — One Story at a Time Latinos are too often highlighted in the mainstream media as ‘illegal’ OR are typecast as cliche’ stereotypes like gardeners, maids, and gangsters. So, several screenwriters…
By Ross Griffith and Victoria Robinson Voice Box Media SAN MARCOS – Recently named the fastest growing city in the nation for the third consecutive year by the U.S. Census Bureau, San Marcos also possesses one of the highest poverty…
LatinaLista — Campaign: HIPGive2HEALTH Latino children and adults face great health challenges and disparities. 77% of U.S. Latinos and a quarter of Latin American and Caribbean population is overweight and obese. Hispanics have the highest rate of uninsurance in…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Casa del Migrante Shelter Fundraiser With almost 1,000 people being deported daily, migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border are crucial in the battle against abuses towards migrants. Oftentimes migrants are deported into Mexico with no money…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Pow Wow Pitch: Inspiring Aboriginal Entrepreneurs Pow Wow Pitch was started 2 months ago in Ottawa, Canada to help Aboriginal entrepreneurs succeed. At Pow Wow Pitch, 30 entrepreneurs get 1 minute to “pitch” their business idea…
LatinaLista – Campaign: The YDO Save The Mentors Campaign Youth Development Organization of Lawrence, MA changes young peoples’ perspectives and strives to help students discover who they are and who they can become. The YDO staff start by getting…
LatinaLista — Campaign: HAVE YOU SEEN ME? A MEMORIAL TO SLAVERY The United States and countries around the world still have not come to grips with the slave trade and its long-lasting effects. Have You Seen Me? is a…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Justice for Refugee Children Last year, some 70,000 refugee children from Central America crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in order to escape atrocious acts of gang violence, domestic violence, and abject poverty. Thousands more have already crossed…
