By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat When a California middle school’s election results didn’t reflect the diverse demographics of the student body, Principal Lena Van Haren saw it as a teaching opportunity. She held on to the results…
LatinaLista — Campaign: recruitHER: Working For Equal Opportunity in Tech Tech companies who value diversity often struggle to hire diverse talent—either their current efforts are failing to move the needle, or they don’t know where to begin. Having a…
By Becca Smouse Cronkite News PHOENIX – As part of the recruitment team for the Phoenix Police Department, Lt. Anthony Lopez says diversity pays dividends beyond reflecting the community served. “It’s absolutely essential to have diversity for an effective…
LatinaLista — Campaign: MyFamilyBuilders: A Wooden Toy That Celebrates Diversity! Why are toy store shelves filled with rows and rows of doll sets that all look the same: one mom, one dad, a boy, and a girl from the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Funding 24 At-Risk Young Women to Learn Filmmaking Mythic Bridge is a 4-year old, NYC-based, 501(c)3 non-profit that provides free filmmaking workshops to at-risk youth, aged 13-24. Guided by a community of dedicated volunteer film professionals…
LatinaLista – Campaign: Red, White & Black Red, White & Black is a passion project and the brainchild of Bertony Faustin, proprietor of Abbey Creek Vineyard in North Plains, Oregon. The first recorded Black winemaker in Oregon, Bertony began…
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…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Funding Diverse Startup Founders The average tech workforce is only 2% black, 1% Hispanic, and 25% women. The data for minority entrepreneurs are just as bad, with less than 2% black and Hispanic entrepreneurs receiving venture…
Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com After more than 60 years of migration from Puerto Rico and other Spanish-speaking countries, and an ongoing struggle to secure economic prosperity and to have its voice heard in local government, leaders within Meriden’s Hispanic population…
By Dolores Sosa Green LatinaLista I was a racist. I was taught all the racial stereotypes I heard from my Mexican-American parents and others where I grew up in Dallas. I was told that mixing races wasn’t good, especially…
LatinaLista — Diversity is a concept everyone understands but it’s a practice that (surprisingly) is getting more pushback these days than ever before. From Silicon Valley to mainstream media newsrooms, diversity is increasingly having a polarizing effect on people…
LatinaLista — A new education study released by the Center for American Progress only reinforces what parents, researchers and students have long known — a teacher’s low expectation of her/his students goes a long way in impacting the self-esteem…
By Shelley Diaz CBC Diversity What is the overlap between challenged books and books by diverse authors? Inspired by the recent flurry of challenges to titles with diverse characters or by minorities or LGBTQ writers, young adult author and…
By Cheng YiLing LatinaLista On Thursday September 4th, ABC Television Network announced that Rosie Perez (and Nicolle Wallace) would be new hosts on the 18th season of The View. This means that the View’s host lineup will have 4…
By Zita Arocha Borderzine It’s time to shatter the myth that young Latino journalists won’t leave home for jobs in news media. This thought and others flashed in neon across my mind as I sipped white wine recently in…
LatinaLista — Earlier this week, the National Center for Education Statistics released the news that for the first time in our nation’s history white students will not be the majority in public schools. For some of us, that news…
CBC Diversity INDUSTRY Q&A WITH PUBLISHER CHRISTY OTTAVIANO Please tell us about the most recent diverse book you published. I recently published Jumped In by Patrick Flores-Scott. This novel is about Sam, a Mexican American teen who’s in a…
LatinaLista — Anyone who regularly watches the Sunday morning political talk shows knows that the hosts and vast majority of guests are white and male. For anyone who tries to refute that obvious diversity imbalance, there’s a quarterly study…
LatinaLista — Last November when NBC announced they were shutting down NBCLatino, their Latino-focused news site and entry into the crowded online competition for Latino readers/viewers, a spokesman for NBC said the closure of the site and funneling of…
By Lisa S. Lenkiewicz CTLatinoNews.com In the fall of 1993, a committed group of Hispanic lawyers, meeting in New Haven, formed the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association (CHBA). Among their original and lofty goals were to enhance the visibility of…
LatinaLista — Like all major industries in the United States, the media industry is suffering its share of holding on to workers. Newspapers and magazines have folded, companies are laying off journalists and everyone seems to be doing these…
LatinaLista — Dr. Edward T. Rincón, a research psychologist, has conducted numerous studies about non-Latinos’ perceptions of the Hispanic community. He’s come to one conclusion: According to our past studies, the typical American does not understand Latinos very well……
La Voz Last month, attorney Thomas L. Cole was sworn in by Mayor Glenn Jones as the new Chief Judge for Port Wentworth, Ga. Cole also serves as a municipal court judge for Thunderbolt, Ga. and sits as a…
By Cory Silverberg CBC Diversity The publisher Lee and Low recently mobilized social media (through the nifty infographic featured) to jumpstart a discussion of diversity in children’s literature. No surprise to anyone who is paying attention, while the US…
By Angela Cervantes CBC Diversity I am an original flashlight girl. You know the type. Hours after parents called for bedtime; I was still up under my bedcovers with a flashlight reading a favorite book. Many times, those books…
