Empowerment

Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico– On September 9th over one hundred of some of the most influential and powerful Latina women in corporate America and business came together to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Hispana Leadership Summit. With a stunning backdrop of the New Mexico desert-mountains, the event kicked off with a strong group of senior corporate leaders from CNN en Español, Johnson & Johnson, Yum! Brands and Altura Capital Group; who set the stage with provoking remarks on leadership and business communications. We got bold, real and candid very quickly “Latina style” …saying it as mami or abuelita would say it.

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Monday evening a star-studded panel of judges chose Miss Mexico, Jimena Navarrete, as MISS UNIVERSE 2010 live from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

The Tenth District of the American Advertising Federation announces the Southwest Advertising Hall of Fame Class of 2010 with seven new honorees, among whom will be Alex López Negrete, President, CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Lopez Negrete Communications, Inc., in Houston, Texas.

Telemundo announced that its President, Don Browne, will address business and corporate leaders on May 18th in San Francisco at the 18th Annual Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) Symposium. Browne will join the HACR CEO Roundtable hosted by John Stumpf, Chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo & Company and participant Stephen Holmes, Chairman & CEO of Wyndham Worldwide.

He is a pioneer of the Broadcast, Entertainment, Production, Programming, Marketing, Sales and Internet Industries. He is a founder of the US Hispanic TV Industry.

Today returning to the show is Lynne Randolph Patterson, Co-Founder and Director of Pro Mujer International in New York. Pro Mujer is a 20-year-old women’s development and microfinance organization and network, operating in Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. Pro Mujer’s mission is to provide Latin American women from the poorest backgrounds with the means and skills to build a better future for themselves and their families. Since our last interview with Lynne last year, there have been quite a few new developments with the organization so we invited her to sit down with us again and talk a little bit about them. To listen to podcast on El Blog CLICK above.

Multiculturalism is a hot topic today. The population of the U.S. is changing, and the results of the census are really going to drive this fact home for a lot of folks who don’t realize how diverse the U.S. population has become over the past decade. Multiculturalism is the topic for today’s column, but rather than writing what I think it means, I decided to seek the assistance of my wife, Lorea Canales, a Mexican journalist and writer. She just penned a piece on what “Mexicaness” means to her for the Web site of a very good friend of ours, New York City restaurateur Zarela Martinez.

I thought it was interesting that this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month seemed to stretch into two months–Latinos were all over the news in November. And that’s a good thing. But in looking at the events of this past month, I couldn’t help but think back at the unheralded success of a Mexican girl from North Carolina. Her achievement, while immersing herself in something so American, speaks volumes about our future in this country.

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Eduardo Caballero, legendary broadcast pioneer and founder of Caballero Spanish Media, the nation’s first and largest Spanish radio rep firm, will be honored as recipient of the “Medalla de Cortez” Lifetime Achievement Award, the Radio Ink’s Radio Forecast 2010 at the Harvard Club on December 8, 2009.