Empowerment

By their own reckoning, Latinos living in the United States do not have a national leader. When asked in an open-ended question to name the person they consider “the most important Latino leader in the country today,” nearly two-thirds (64%) of Hispanic respondents said they did not know. An additional 10% said “no one.”

Tony Hernandez – University of Wisconsin-Superior Class of ’84 will return to campus to receive The Distinguished Alumnus Award and inform the campus and community about his nationwide Immigrant Archive Project.

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.