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Takeaways from Hispanicize 2013 Social Media Conference

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If it’s tough to recap even a two or three day social media conference, imagine trying to do it with a five day event, filled with back to back speakers’ panels, lunches, mixers, red carpet events, movie premiers, art festivals and all-night…

Charo Performs Rihanna’s ‘Don’t Stop the Music’

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The ageless and unstoppable cuchi-cuchi dynamo, Charo does a show-stoppingly fabulous cover of Rihanna’s Don’t Stop the Music on Jerry Lewis’s MDA Telethon in 2009. And Charo is much more than an amazing entertainer—she recently spoke…
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Is Sofia Vergara the Modern Charo?

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“Sofia Vergara is doing me right now,” says Latina legend Charo. The cuchi-cuchi-ing entertainer spoke at The Adelante Movement: The Wisdom of Latina Legends session at the Hispanicize social media conference in Miami last week. Really? Vergara…
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A Woman’s Guide to Hispanicize Social Media Conference

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Hispanicize 2012—the annual Latino trends and newsmakers event for Hispanic marketers, media, bloggers, filmmakers and music artists—was like networking on steroids. During the social media conference, I cemented in real life plenty of…

NASA Celebrates Women’s History Month: Gemma Flores Profile

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In honor of Women’s History Month last year, NASA released several profiles of women in their organization. Gemma Flores is an architect at Dryden Flight Research Center in California. It’s so inspiring learning about these amazing women…
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Mentoring Program Serves Young Latinas in NYC

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In the spring of 2003, Dr. Ellen Silber of Fordham University heard this from the superintendent of a school district outside New York City: ”Hispanic girls are a quiet problem; too many of them quietly drop out of school due to a growing…
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The Power of Role Models

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I recently heard something really scary to me: Latina girls name Kim Kardashian as one of their top role models. Why? Because she looks like them! This raises an important issue—the people we are most likely to emulate are those with whom…
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25 Quotes by Hollywood Legend Rita Moreno

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For generations of Latinas, Rita Moreno has been an inspiration and role model. The only Hispanic and one of few performers ever to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy award, Moreno came to prominence in the Golden Age of Hollywood and worked…
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Circle de Luz: Empowering Young Latinas

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It started with a whisper. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? In 2007, my first book, Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina was published and as I toured the country to…