Empowerment

Latin Business magazine, a bimonthly publication serving the nation’s Latino business community, has announced Alex López Negrete, Chief Executive Officer and President of Lopez Negrete Communications in Houston, will receive the “Latin Business Marketing Spirit Award” at this year’s annual gala on October 12 in the Gold Room of the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

For six years, MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry) has recognized nationally distinguished Hispanic science professionals. Past honorees include a former U.S. Surgeon General, a Nobel Laureate of Chemistry, a NASA Astronaut, a Marine Biologist, and most recently, a Harvard professor of pathology and former chief of immunogenetics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. This year, MOSI honors an educator whose passion for science allowed her to break barriers and become the first Latin American woman to receive a Ph.D. in seismology at Columbia University; Dr. Inés Cifuentes is the 2006 National Hispanic Scientist of the Year.

With paint rollers in hand and plenty of elbow grease to spare, thirty teenagers from local community centers pitched in to help beautify the Vermont Ave. headquarters of another youth-serving organization during the annual L.A. Works volunteer day, held Saturday, June 3. The event was sponsored in part by the Majestic Realty Foundation.

If a beautiful woman walked by a construction site on May 1st, she heard no whistles; no one showed up to work that morning.

I was commissioned by one of my clients to gather footage, shoot photos and record opinions of as many marching immigrants as I could. I was mentally prepared to get there, cover the project and hopefully still make it to the gym! In fact, I was ready for the expected: angry immigrants and union leaders declaring their resentments, screaming their hatred.