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Achieving Full Potential -Our Latino high school students NEED our mentoring

I have a friend named Jackie Martinez who works at Facebook. This morning she posted about a phone call she had yesterday with a mentee. After reading her story twice, I felt compelled to blog the response I want to … Continue reading

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Latinas Think Big Event at Google Los Angeles

At Google’s Los Angeles office on a recent Friday night, the presentation room was filled with highly educated, professional, innovative, entrepreneurial and activist Latinas in charge. There were bloggers, journalists, community leaders, professors, business owners, engineers — all gathered to … Continue reading

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Mentoring Latinas is a Successful Program to Emulate Nationally

I’m proud to share this article contributed to Fox News Latino to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this effective, culturally-relevant REAL mentoring program. I had the pleasure of meeting its visionary founder in New York last summer. Please read this … Continue reading

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Latina Sisterhood in Silicon Valley-When Social Media Meets Real Life

One woman drove nine hours to get there; others cleared their typically crazy afternoon calendars to make the meetup and still others arrived just long enough at the end to exchange hugs with friends previously only known in a Facebook … Continue reading

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What President Clinton Wants You to Know About American Solar Power

Last fall, I had the opportunity to hear President Clinton speak to professionals in the solar energy industry as I joined it. Here’s a summary I wrote afterward that ran in The Huffington Post Green section, detailing what he wants … Continue reading

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Hermano Engineers Work to Prepare Next Generation of Latino STEM Innovators

Two brothers, Ed and Jesse Martinez, became electrical and mechanical engineers, respectively. Now, as globally competitive entrepreneurs, they’ve founded the Latino Startup Alliance with Latina engineer Jennifer Arguello. They have also created a tech entrepreneurship program for high school students … Continue reading

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She Leads through Sustainable Branding

Last week, I posted a piece at The Huffington Post titled “Sustainability Leadership through Branding: A Woman and a Community of 50,000.”   Due to the constraints of word counts, I had to truncate the piece. Below is the complete article … Continue reading

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Celebrating Latino Environmental Entrepreneurs –Profiles for Earth Day 2012 (part 3 of 3)

Fox New Latino honored three of the “Latinnovators” from Latinnovating as part of their Earth Day celebration. Here is the third in the series I was asked to contribute: Rosamaria Caballero-Stafford—Leading and Greening One Place at a Time

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Are You Effectively Reaching Skeptical Latinos with Your Green Marketing?

In a recent Huffington Post article, I explored the implications of a Cone Communications study when marketing to various Latino market segments. I’d love to hear comments, especially from those actively marketing green products, services, organizations to different U.S. Latino … Continue reading

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Celebrating Latino Environmental Entrepreneurs –Profiles for Earth Day 2012 (part 2 of 3)

Fox New Latino honored three of the “Latinnovators” from Latinnovating as part of their Earth Day celebration. Here is the second in the series I was asked to contribute: Luis Rojas–Leading Public Schools onto Renewable Energy  

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