Good News Latinos And X: Philadelphia Latino Organizations Succeed in Ensuring Access to Vaccines
In our first episode of Good News Latinos and X, Philadelphia Latino Organizations worked nights and weekends to ensure that their communities were provided information about and access to Covid-19 Va...
7 Okt 202115min
Raquel Mariscal: Transforming Social Systems that serve Children towards Justice and Well-Being
Raquel Mariscal is from a farmworker family and at the age of five she was working in the cotton fields with her parents. Even at this early age, she knew that it wasn't right for children to be worki...
30 Sep 202133min
Mercedes Márquez, Housing Advocate and City Revitalizer
Mercedes Márquez has been a housing practitioner and civil rights advocate for over 35 years. She has worked as a civil rights litigator, affordable housing developer, Housing Director and a Deputy Ma...
23 Sep 202141min
Erica Padilla-Chavez, CEO-Pajaro Valley Prevention & Student Assistance
Erica Padilla-Chavez was born in Watsonville, CA and graduated from Watsonville High School. She attended the University of California, Berkeley where she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Socio...
16 Sep 202150min
Maria Elena de la Garza, Executive Director of the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc. (CAB)
Born and raised in Watsonville, I bring more than 30 years of nonprofit experience to my work as the executive director of the Community Action Board (CAB) of Santa Cruz County, Inc. (CAB). I stand ...
9 Sep 202142min
Mónica Morales, Deputy Director - California Department of Public Health
Join us as we continue to talk with Mónica Morales, Deputy Director for the Center for Healthy Communities at the California Department of Public Health. This is our follow episode to Episode 71: Ment...
2 Sep 202134min
Marcia Rincon-Gallardo, Executive Director, The Alianza for Youth Justice
Marcia Rincon-Gallardo has dedicated her lifetime career to social justice, and is presently the Executive Director of the Alianza for Youth Justice. The Alianza for Youth Justice is dedicated to supp...
26 Aug 202124min
Mentorship, Growing Our Own
The power of mentorship and investing in young people has always proven to be effective and leaders of color who invest in mentoring and supporting youth have stories to share, here is ours. Much gr...
20 Aug 202122min
