Adelante Leadership: Recent Episodes
Peter Bloch Garcia y Tania Alheli Hino Gonzalez
Stepping into it with our hearts and identities
Description: Through conversation and sharing our stories, Latine community leaders encourage others to step into their power, to act on their vision, and make the world a better place for their community, family, and future generations. Bilingual: Spanish/English
In our final episode of the season, we highlight the inspiring journeys of three remarkable Latine leaders making a difference in their communities:
Caleb Cazares Garay: A high school senior, athlete, and volunteer dedicated to developing his leadership skills. Caleb is passionate about creating a better world for his younger siblings and other Latine children and youth.
Josue Villalobos: Recently graduated from high school and set to attend the University of Washington in the fall. Josue actively participates in school and community activities, fostering a sense of belonging and connection wherever he goes.
Nez Gonzalez: An inspirational Latine leader, co-founder, and teacher with Fortaleza Familiar. Nez is committed to the wellness of Indigenous Chicanx Latinx Lesbian Gay Bi Queer Trans Two-Spirit young people and their families in Colorado. With a background in religious studies, Nez leads Latine families in traditions of inclusion and empowerment.
Thank you for joining us this season. Enjoy your summer and remember, “rest is resistance.” We’ll return with Season 4 on September 15th, 2024, kicking off with historical facts for Latine History Month. Our new season will explore the theme, “Thriving as a Latine Leader through Vulnerability,” a topic inspired by reflections on our past three seasons. See you then!
Tania and Peter talk to Dr. Nieto about her powerful book Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone.
Dr. Leticia Nieto has been an active poet, dramatist, and performer since 1978.
She has been a psychotherapist and trainer in anti-oppression and expressive techniques including psychodrama, playback theater, and theater of the oppressed since 1980.
She is a leadership coach, psychotherapist, and educator specializing in liberation, equity, and evolutionary creativity.
Her 2010 book, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, is an accessible analysis of the dynamics of oppression and supremacy that offers readers ways to develop skills to promote social justice.
Dr. Nieto brings an enlivening approach to coaching, training and facilitation, drawing on expressive techniques and embodied practices to involve participants deeply and create opportunities for insight and change.
Peter and Tania talk with Mimi and Nez about Latine Leadership.
Mimi Madrid and Nez Gonzalez are two inspirational Latine leaders and part of the team at Fortaleza Familiar, an organization dedicated to the wellness of Indigenous Chicanx Latinx Lesbian Gay Bi Queer Trans Two-Spirit young people and their families in Colorado.
Mimi is a mexica chicanx queer two-spirit writer, multimedia-maker, organizer the Executive Director of the organization.
Nez Gonzalez (he/him) is co-founder of the organization and now serves as Community Workshop Facilitator. Nez shares expertise and organizing for trans student rights in Denver high schools. He has experience creating workshops designed to educate on queer and racial identities for both youth and their families.
"I believe in the power of youth, elimination of borders, popular education, all forms of art expression, intergenerational healing and learning, swaying on the continuums of gender expression, identity, and orientation, singing out-loud, leaving to come back, dancing in revolution, and sana-sana-colita-de-rana." - Mimi
"My hope is that we’re able to create loving communities where we’re free to be our queer indigenous selves." - Nez
Mimi Madrid (he/they/she) is a mexica chicanx queer two-spirit writer, multimedia-maker, organizer and tio. Mimi’s family roots start in Northern Mexico in the states of Chihuahua y Durango—homelands of her grandmas Dolores Puga y Rosa Torres. Mimi was born in El Paso, Texas and raised in so-called Denver, Colorado—the ancestral lands of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people.
Mimi's worked more than a decade in reproductive justice, youth leadership and LGBTQ+ liberation movements. Mimi’s focus is the development, implementation, and evaluation of cultural, wellness, and safety community programs, events, and curriculum. He’s worked with organizations around Denver that center LGBTQ folks, indigenous young people, survivors of violence, immigrant families, and communities of color.
Tania and Peter talk to Sonya about leadership coaching.
Sonya Perez-Lauterbach is a Certified Leadership Coach, Change Expert, and the creator of Leadership Atlas™ - a holistic approach to leadership development. Her mission is to change the paradigm of leadership to caring for the whole person through a mental, emotional, and embodied approach.
Through transformational 1:1 coaching Sonya supports change agents to become confident, effective and joyful leaders on their own terms. Her paradigm moves beyond self-care. She believes that authentic, empowered leadership is the key to healthy, thriving organizations that improve the world.. Learn more about Sonya at: www.sonyaperez.com
Josue Villalobos, is a senior in High School. He is an active participant in school and communal activities, doing his best to create a flourishing sense of belonging and connection everywhere he goes.
Josue states "I am glad you are tuning in to listen to my podcast episode and I encourage you to go out and accomplish that thing that's been on my mind!"
Tania and Peter talk to Amalia about her leadership with The Vida Agency.
Amalia Martino is Founder and President of The Vida Agency, a multi-service and multi-cultural company that works to advance racial equity in the Northwest. Her agency helps clients learn how to include and center the voices of people traditionally left out through innovative communications and public relations strategies. Amalia’s leadership amplifies the voices of the unheard and underserved and builds authentic bridges between our clients, the media, and community.
Peter and Tania talk to Carolina about her work with Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción.
Carolina Mejías Rivera es Gestora Cultural y Recreacionista. Tiene un bachillerato en Ciencias Sociales con concentración en Ciencias Políticas, segunda concentración en Recreación y una secuencia curricular en Cooperativismo; además, cuenta con una maestría en Gestión y Administración Cultural, ambos en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras.
A lo largo de su carrera profesional ha desarrollado proyectos en los que involucra a las comunidades con el acceso universitario. Creó la iniciativa Impacto Recreativo, un proyecto que pretendía llevar talleres de arte y deportes a las escuelas como método para que los estudiantes se motivaran a entrar a la universidad. Posteriormente, desarrolló un proyecto similar llamado Puerto Rico Extreme Soccer que utilizaba el deporte del balompié como método para entrar a las universidades. Desde el 2012, forma parte de la organización Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción, donde ha desarrollado diversos programas como Mentes Pal Cambio, un programa de liderazgo y mentoría pre-universitaria para jóvenes de escuela superior; el programa #EnAcción que surge luego del huracán María, que consistió en insertar jóvenes universitarios y profesionales a comunidades para que sirvieran de facilitadores comunitarios; y que se ha transformado el mismo en un Laboratorio de Acción Cívica para jóvenes que quieran generar soluciones a retos sistémicos del país. Ha sido seleccionada para presentar los resultados de su trabajo en foros en Lima, Perú y Quito, Ecuador. En ambos programas ha recibido reconocimientos por su trabajo en la prensa como El Nuevo Día, Primera Hora y la revista Magacín.
A partir del 2022, asumió el rol de Directora Ejecutiva de Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción (MPA), donde ha logrado $4,109,351.20 de aporte social económico para la sostenibilidad del tercer sector y las comunidades a través de los programas; activó 769 voluntaries para atender la emergencia luego del Huracán Fiona que atravesó el país; y ha sido una voz para la fuerza laboral emergente en diversos foros en universidades, asociaciones de cooperativas, gremios gubernamentales, espacios filantrópicos y prensa radial. De igual forma, ha colaborado con organizaciones fuera de Puerto Rico como Unidos US, participando como panelista en Workforce Development Summit 2022; y en Migrant Cliniciants Network desarrollando un currículo de Liderazgo y Abogacía para las comunidades agrícolas de Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes.
Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción (MPA) es una organización sin fines de lucro 501c3 que trabaja para dar paso a una nueva generación de líderes comprometidos con la justicia social y capaces de afrontar los retos de Puerto Rico.
Nuestra misión es construir una comunidad de jóvenes que hacen de Puerto Rico su proyecto de vida. Buscamos que esta nueva generación de agentes de cambio ayude a crear una sociedad más solidaria, participativa y justa.
Tania and Peter speak to Marcela about her leadership and her work with Pueblos Unidos.
Marcela Díaz is the Founding Executive Director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, a statewide immigrant-based organization that works to promote racial and worker justice in New Mexico. Through its community organizing, electoral engagement, litigation, and policy advocacy efforts,Somos has helped shape New Mexico’s immigrant and worker’s rights landscape for over two decades. With Marcela's leadership, the organization has spearheaded several local and statewide laws and has won dozens of awards for its grassroots work.
Peter and Tania speak to Angela about her youth leadership and
wisdom.
Angela Armendariz is an inspiring Latine youth leader from Mexico. From a young age she became aware of the social challenges and barriers to BIPOC people in the United States and stepped into her leadership journey organizing students to create supportive and caring community with other Latine youth. She attends Olympic College earning college credit while completing her high school diploma and creating the first Latine student organization in the institutions.
Mark Magaña is the Founding President & CEO of GreenLatinos, a National network of Latino environmental and conservation advocates.
Mark is the first Latino to have served as senior staff at both the White House and in Congressional leadership – as Special Assistant to President Clinton for White House Legislative Affairs and several other influential leadership roles at federal, state and local levels.
Mark also founded the National Latinos for Obama in which he helped build a national grassroots organization and mobilization effort.
He serves on the boards of the League of Conservation Voters, Green 2.0, and the Children’s Environmental Health Network.
Tania and Peter talk to Jennifer about leadership and public policy.
Jennifer Allen Aroz is dedicated to supporting the collective power of Latine community leaders to influence policy that serves the community's needs. She founded the Border Action Network in 2001 where she served as the Executive Director for a decade influencing immigration policy both in Arizona and nationally. Her leadership has influenced many across Southern Arizona and nationally when she has served on the board of directors of GreenLatinos, the City of Tucson’s Commission on Climate, Energy and Sustainability, League of Conservation Voters, ACLU, and Las Adelitas Arizona, an all-volunteer organization dedicated to promoting Latina civic participation and encouraging Latinas and other women of color to run for public office.
Jennifer is a Senior Vice President at the League of Conservation Voters where she leads LCV’s Community and Civic Engagement department. She joined LCV in 2013 to develop Chispa (“spark” in Spanish), a national community organizing program that builds the capacity of Latino families to influence policy makers and pressure polluters to protect communities’ rights to clean air and water, healthy neighborhoods and a safe climate for generations to come.
Tania and Peter talk to Caleb an emerging Latine youth leader about his views leadership.
Caleb Cazares Garay is junior at Ingraham High School, he plays Ingraham High School Varsity Football and as well an emerging Latine youth leader in his community.
Tania y Peter hablan con Caleb, un líder juvenil latino emergente, sobre sus puntos de vista sobre el liderazgo.
Caleb Cazares Garay es estudiante de tercer año en Ingraham High School, juega fútbol americano en Ingraham High School y también es un líder juvenil latino emergente en su comunidad.
Tania and Peter talk to José about his Leadership
José Calderón is the former President of the Hispanic Federation (HF), the nation’s premier Latino nonprofit membership organization. José manages HF’s overall operations with a primary focus on strategic planning, program development, public policy advocacy and resource development. He is a leading advocate for Hispanic grassroots organizations and pro-Latino legislation locally and nationwide.
José has worked in various capacities for the Federation since 2001, including Program Coordinator, Program Director, Vice President and Senior Vice President. During that time, he has helped develop and launch several of HF’s most important initiatives including its Latino College Success Program, Workforce Development ABLE project, Board Leadership Development Initiative, DREAMers Scholarship Fund, Diabetes Awareness Campaign, Latino Immigration Task Force, among others. He has also spearheaded HF’s civic engagement efforts, helping to register and mobilize hundreds of thousands of voters in key federal and local elections over the last decade.
As the Federation's principal spokesperson, José works to disseminate the organization's public policy positions to the media, public officials, the private sector and the community at large. Through public hearings, weekly newspaper columns and Federation-produced radio and television shows, he also works to educate Latinos about issues and services of critical importance to them and their families.
José currently serves as Co-Chair of the Immigration Committee of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of the leading Latino organizations in the nation. He also serves on the advisory committee for The Aspen Institute’s Roundtable on Community Change. A recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, José is most proud and grateful for the continued support and acknowledgments he receives from HF's network of Latino nonprofits.
José received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Hunter College and a Master of Arts Degree from St. John’s University with a concentration in Latin American studies, Spanish literature and political science. He is married and a proud father of two daughters.
Peter and Tania reflect on episode 1 - 8 of season 3.
They also discuss the traditions for the Latine community of the guests interviewed this season. Which are the traditions that are worth continuing to pass on in the Latine community. The importance of resting and recharging energy to continue to follow our passions. Resting is not being selfish, it is self-love.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all.
Peter y Tania reflexionan sobre el episodio 1 - 8 de la temporada 3.
También discuten las tradiciones de la comunidad latine de los invitados entrevistados esta temporada. Cuáles son las tradiciones que vale la pena seguir pasando en la comunidad latine. La importancia de descansar y recargar energías para seguir siguiendo nuestras pasiones. Descansar no es ser egoísta, es amor propio.
Felices fiestas y próspero año nuevo a todos.
Peter and Tania talk to Michelle about building power and leadership differently.
Michelle Tremillo, Co-Executive Director and one of Texas Organizing Project’s co-founders, is a 4th generation Tejana, born and raised in a low-income neighborhood in San Antonio. She has two decades of community organizing experience, and is responsible for raising a multi-million dollar budget, co-developing TOP’s overall strategy to create and win on our economic and racial justice policy agenda in Texas’ 3 largest metro areas, as well as leading TOP’s voter engagement program--the largest independent grassroots program in Texas--which has mobilized more than 3.2 million Black and Latino voters to the ballot box across the state. Michelle has been recognized numerous times locally and nationally for her leadership in the progressive movement, including: in Mother Jones as one of 8 women leading the resistance in Texas (2017), in Texas Monthly’s 2018 Power Issue, along with Brianna Brown, as one of 31 Texans taking charge, and as one of She The People’s 20 Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020, which was also featured in Elle Magazine.
This November 25th after Thanksgiving Day, Adelante Leadership podcast invites you to join us in appreciating and supporting the nonprofit organization Na’ah Illahee Fund to help give restitution to indigenous people that have suffered and continue to be negatively impacted in the United States.
Na’ah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous women-led organization dedicated to the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities, serving communities in the Northwest corner of Turtle Island from the Arctic to the Rockies. It works to catalyze a movement toward positive futures through transformative change by supporting culturally grounded leadership and organizing.
For me and Tania, the act of gratitude to our people and spending time with family and friends creating connection is vital. The Thanksgiving holiday is important for us in the practice of gratitude and we want to acknowledge that this holiday has never been equitable for our indigenous peoples.
In fact the historical origins of the holiday began as a declaration from the Governor of Massachuets celebrating the massacre of over 600 indigenous people. To counter that and the continued inequalities of indigenous people in the US, please join us in donating to Na’ah Illahee Fund today.
Got to https://naahillahee.org/ and make your donation
Tania and Peter talk to Jaime about her book Youth to Power and other ideas about weaving elder knowledge and youth knowledge.
Jaime Margolin is an internationally recognized leader on climate action. She is co-executive director and a co-founder of Zero Hour, an organization building a movement of youth for climate and environmental justice. She is the author of the book, Youth to Power; Your Voice and How to Use It. She is an inspiration to countless Latine & BIPOC youth and adult leaders.
In 2017, at age 15, Margolin founded the youth climate action organization Zero Hour with Nadia Nazar,[6][7] Zanagee Artis, and other youth activists.[8] She served as the co-executive director of the organization until September 2020 when she stepped down. She was replaced by fellow founder and youth activist Madelaine Tew.[9] Margolin co-founded Zero Hour in reaction to the response she saw after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico[10] and her personal experience during the 2017 Washington wildfires.[9]
She has garnered some notoriety as a plaintiff in the Aji P. v. Washington case, suing the state of Washington for their inaction against climate change on the basis of a stable climate being a human right.[10][11][clarification needed]
In September 2018, Margolin was part of a youth group that sued Governor Jay Inslee and the State of Washington over greenhouse-gas emissions in the state. The case was dismissed by a King County Superior Court judge, who ruled the case to be political one that must be resolved by the Governor and the legislature. It has since been appealed Washington Court of Appeals.[3]
In September 2019, she was asked to testify on a panel called "Voices Leading the Next Generation on the Global Climate Crisis" alongside Greta Thunberg for the United States House of Representatives.[3]
In 2021, Margolin started a Climate Justice Scholarship.[4]
Peter y Tania hablan con Lupita Torrez sobre el poder que todos tenemos.
Lupita es gerente de aprendizaje temprana con Seattle University y Fundadora de Para los niños y fue Directora ejecutiva por 16 anos en la agencia de para los niños.
Lupita sigue impulsando estrategias para garantizar que todos los niños estén preparados para el jardín de infantes y sus vidas.
Lupita dice que no puede vivir sin sus hijos, su perro y el chocolate negro
El pasatiempo favorito de fin de semana
de Lupita es pasear con mi perro
uería ser cajera de banco para tener mucho dinero y comprar zapatos para todos pájaros.
Peter and Tania speak to a group of six elder latine leaders about culture, ancestors, passing knowledge. Part 1 of Elder Latine Leaders.
These leaders are from previous adelante leadership podcast episodes. If you wish to learn more about each guest in this group interview please visit their episodes.
Jacque Larrainzar was born in Mexico City and came to the United States as a Political Asylee. They asylum case opened the doors to thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals looking for safety and freedom to live and love. To hear more about Jacque tune in to Adelante leadership podcastS 2 E 9 .
Denise Padin Collazo is a social justice leader, a mentor to fellow women of color, and an award winning author. And she is the author of the recent book: Thriving in the Fight; A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change. To hear more about Denise tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 1 E 4.
Dr. Juana Bordas - Leader, Author and Activist. She has authored many articles and books. One o her books is The Power of Latino Leadership, Second Edition, Revised and Updated: Culture, Inclusion, and Contribution, 2023. To hear more about Dr. Juana tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 1 E 2.
Lonnie Tristan Renteria is a scholar, activist, creative type, teacher and therapist. He is a former college professor and enjoys the psycho-education aspect of therapy. He has produced documentaries, written, acted in and directed shows. Lonnie Renteria enjoys caring for patients of all walks of life, as well as building relationships with them. His goal is to help patients live healthy and fulfilling lives. His interests in psychotherapy include working with BIPOC and LGBTQ communities. To hear more about Lonnie tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 2 E 8, S2 E16, & S2 E 25.
Magdaleno Leno Rose-Avila- Leno grew up in Las Animas, Colorado, one of 12 children to immigrant parents from Mexico.
Leno is a gifted public speaker and poet. Today he works in behalf of human and environmental rights and for judicial reform. Worked directly with Cesar Chavez y Dolores Huerta. To hear more about Leno tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 1 E 3 and S 2 E 6.
Lupe Lopez is a nationally recognized expert in facilitating organizational transformations and leading and managing issue campaigns at the local, state and national level. She has decades of experience as a bilingual writer, social strategist, coach, trainer, organizational development consultant and facilitator. To hear more about Lupe tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 1 E 9.
Peter and Tania speak to a group of six elder latine leaders about culture, ancestors, passing knowledge. Part 1 of Elder Latine Leaders.
These leaders are from previous adelante leadership podcast episodes. If you wish to learn more about each guest in this group interview please visit their episodes.
Jacque Larrainzar was born in Mexico City and came to the United States as a Political Asylee. They asylum case opened the doors to thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals looking for safety and freedom to live and love. To hear more about Jacque tune in to Adelante leadership podcastS 2 E 9 .
Denise Padin Collazo is a social justice leader, a mentor to fellow women of color, and an award winning author. And she is the author of the recent book: Thriving in the Fight; A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change. To hear more about Denise tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 1 E 4.
Dr. Juana Bordas - Leader, Author and Activist. She has authored many articles and books. One o her books is The Power of Latino Leadership, Second Edition, Revised and Updated: Culture, Inclusion, and Contribution, 2023. To hear more about Dr. Juana tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 1 E 2.
Lonnie Tristan Renteria is a scholar, activist, creative type, teacher and therapist. He is a former college professor and enjoys the psycho-education aspect of therapy. He has produced documentaries, written, acted in and directed shows. Lonnie Renteria enjoys caring for patients of all walks of life, as well as building relationships with them. His goal is to help patients live healthy and fulfilling lives. His interests in psychotherapy include working with BIPOC and LGBTQ communities. To hear more about Lonnie tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 2 E 8, S2 E16, & S2 E 25.
Magdaleno Leno Rose-Avila- Leno grew up in Las Animas, Colorado, one of 12 children to immigrant parents from Mexico.
Leno is a gifted public speaker and poet. Today he works in behalf of human and environmental rights and for judicial reform. Worked directly with Cesar Chavez y Dolores Huerta. To hear more about Leno tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 1 E 3 and S 2 E 6.
Lupe Lopez is a nationally recognized expert in facilitating organizational transformations and leading and managing issue campaigns at the local, state and national level. She has decades of experience as a bilingual writer, social strategist, coach, trainer, organizational development consultant and facilitator. To hear more about Lupe tune in to Adelante Leadership podcast S 1 E 9.
Tania entrevista a su mamá para compartir sus conocimientos y experiencias vividas y el impacto que tuvo su madre en su liderazgo.
Después de reflexionar sobre las pérdidas de muchos ancianos de nuestra comunidad a causa de la pandemia, decidimos centrar la tercera temporada en cómo el liderazgo Latine puede beneficiarse tanto del conocimiento de los mayores como del de los jóvenes.
Creemos que podemos aprender tanto de nuestros mayores Latine como del conocimiento de nuestros jóvenes.
¿Cómo podemos aprender de ambos y fortalecernos juntos?
¿Cómo unimos ambas fuentes de ideas y conocimientos de Liderazgo Latine?
¿Cómo transmitimos el conocimiento de nuestros mayores antes de que se pierda y cómo empoderamos a nuestra juventud?
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After reflecting about our losses of many elders in our community from the pandemic, we decided to focus season three on how Latine Leadership can benefit from both elders' knowledge and youth’s knowledge.
We believe that we can both learn from our Latine elders and our youth leader’s knowledge.
How can we learn from both and become stronger together?
How do we unite both sources of Latine leadership ideas and knowledge?
How do we pass our elders' knowledge before it is lost and how do we empower our youth?
Peter interviews his mom to share the knowledge and his lived experiences and the impact his mother had in his leadership.
Tania and Peter reflect episode 27 through 31.
Veronica Duran-Sisk was born in Quito, Ecuador and obtained her International Business and Master’s degree in marketing.
After one year of arriving to the USA, she landed a job at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) as a Spanish Interpreter. This work gave her the opportunity to meet many people from different backgrounds and cultures. Through this experience, she learned that Spanish-speaking people not only sought help with the language, but also sought to share their lives with someone who had something in common.
When she moved to Seattle, she had the opportunity to attend the Latina Symposium at NSC. She later become a volunteer in the Latina Symposium, 8 years later she is now the president of Somos Mujeres Latinas. www.smlwa.org
Veronica states "I joined the Symposium team as a collaborator, and today I am the president of SML. I feel so lucky to get to work with this group of women who have changed my life and inspired me to learn more".
Tania and Peter talk to Victoria about the power of Latinx leadership
Victoria Santos is a Spanish-fluent Afro-Caribbean who was born in a rural village in the Dominican Republic. Her work is rooted in a vision of human potential to advance social justice and racial equity. From over thirty years of lived experiences, she shares her knowledge and wisdom in all her work with a deep commitment to our collective liberation. She is the founder and director of Commonweal’s Center for Healing and Liberation and co-Executived Director of the BIPOC Executive Director Coalition.
Tania and Peter talk to Dr. Luz and Dr. Catriona about their book about Decolonizing your Diet
Luz Calvo is a professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal State East Bay. Luz and their partner Catriona Rueda Esquibel live in Oakland, CA, where they grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs on their small urban farm as they study traditional Mesoamerican cuisine.
Catriona Rueda Esquibel : Catriona Rueda Esquibel is an associate professor in Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. Catriona and her partner Luz Calvo live in Oakland, CA, where they grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs on their small urban farm, as they study traditional Mesoamerican cuisine.
Recipes to Sustain Revolutionary Love Our project was born out of struggle and love, both personal and political. Decolonize Your Diet begins with the premise that we are living with the legacy of over 500 years of colonization. We recognize the importance of indigenous knowledge, cultures, and ways of being in the world and believe in the need to dismantle colonial systems of power. It is within these broader contexts that we issue the call to “decolonize your diet,” with full knowledge that what we need is a dismantling of our entire food-for-profit system. Another mission of this book is to encourage individuals to use food to regain physical health and nurture a spiritual connection to themselves, each other, and Mother Earth. When we say food is medicine, it is not because we think food can necessarily replace conventional. Western medical treatments, but because eating“real” food is essential to healing.
In general, our recipes highlight the immense diversity of healthy, native foods in dishes that are accessible yet satisfying. Reclaiming our vitality as a people means embracing a plant-based diet of whole foods. In our view, people can eat responsibly whether they are vegans, vegetarians, flexitarians, pescetarians, or omnivores. In a decolonial framework, there is room for multiple ways of eating, so we don’t believe everyone needs to make the same food choices. While we are committed to reclaiming knowledge about our ancestral foods, we are not calling for a rejection of any food not native to the Americas, nor do we desire
to recreate any one diet from a previous era. We understand that all cultures are living and evolving. Decolonize Your Diet does not tout certain so-called “super foods”; instead, it is a whole food system of eating. Our abuelitas (grandmothers) prepared a simple diet that was as flavorful as it was nourishing. The staples of their diets were beans and tortillas, supplemented with many fruits and vegetables: avocado, corn, tomatoes, chiles, wild greens, squash, herbs, berries, pineapples, papayas, and more. We invite readers from diverse backgrounds to take up our call to bring playfulness and creativity to cooking, to search for healthy alternatives in more than one direction, to resist the acculturation that tells us white bread is food, and to share this message with your communities: La comida es medicina, food is medicine. More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by “traditional” Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases.
Tania and Peter talk to Dr. Luz and Dr. Catriona about their book about Decolonizing your Diet
Luz Calvo is a professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal State East Bay. Luz and their partner Catriona Rueda Esquibel live in Oakland, CA, where they grow fruits,vegetables, and herbs on their small urban farm as they study traditional Mesoamerican cuisine.
Catriona Rueda Esquibel : Catriona Rueda Esquibel is an associate professor in Race andResistance Studies at San Francisco State University. Catriona and her partnerLuz Calvo live in Oakland, CA, where they grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs ontheir small urban farm, as they study traditional Mesoamerican cuisine.
Recipes to Sustain Revolutionary Love Our project was born out of struggle and love,both personal and political. Decolonize Your Diet begins with the premise that we are living with the legacy ofover 500 years of colonization. We recognize the importance of indigenous knowledge, cultures, and ways of being in the world and believe in the need to dismantle colonial systems of power. It is within these broader contexts that we issue the call to “decolonize your diet,” with full knowledge that what we need is a dismantling of our entire food-for-profit system. Another mission of this book is to encourage individuals to use food to regain physical health and nurture a spiritual connection to themselves, each other, and Mother Earth. When we say food is medicine, it is not because we think food can necessarily replace conventional. Western medical treatments, but because eating“real” food is essential to healing.
In general, our recipes highlight the immense diversity of healthy, native foods in dishes that are accessible yet satisfying. Reclaiming our vitality as a people means embracing a plant-based diet of whole foods. In our view, people can eat responsibly whether they are vegans, vegetarians, flexitarians, pescetarians, oromnivores. In a decolonial framework, there is room for multiple ways of eating, so we don’t believe everyone needs to make the same food choices. While we are committed to reclaiming knowledge about our ancestral foods, we are not calling for a rejection of any food not native to the Americas, nor do we desire
to recreate any one diet from a previous era. We understand that all cultures are living and evolving. Decolonize Your Diet does not toutcertain so-called “super foods”; instead, it is a whole food system of eating. Our abuelitas (grandmothers) prepared a simple diet that was as flavorful as it wasnourishing. The staples of their diets were beans and tortillas, supplemented with many fruits and vegetables: avocado, corn, tomatoes, chiles, wild greens, squash, herbs, berries, pineapples, papayas, and more. We invite readers from diverse backgrounds to take up our call to bring playfulness and creativity to cooking, to search for healthy alternatives in more than one direction, to resist the acculturation that tells us white bread is food, and to share this message with your communities: La comida es medicina, food is medicine. More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by “traditional”Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases.
Peter y Tania hablan con Gloria Santiago de usar nuestra cultura como la medicina para descolonizar.
Gloria es una reconocida activista y defensora de los derechos de las mujeres y las comunidades latinas.
En esta entrevista compartirá su experiencia y conocimientos en la lucha por la equidad y la justicia, y cómo podemos unirnos para crear un cambio positivo en nuestras comunidades.
¡No te pierdas esta oportunidad de escucharla en vivo en el Simposio de Mujeres Latinas en Washington!
www.smlwa.org
Pete y Tania hablan con Sandra Huber sobre la salud mental y el trauma del imigrante
Sandra nació y se crió en la Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá y vino a los EE. UU. para estudiar ingeniería industrial. Después de trabajar como ingeniera, encontró su vocación en los servicios sociales y humanos. Sandra trabaja para profundizar las relaciones con agencias comunitarias, escuelas, organizaciones de atención médica y agencias gubernamentales mientras genera confianza, transparencia y un compromiso significativo con nuestros residentes. También practica y fomenta el liderazgo latino con su participación en una variedad de grupos comunitarios como Panama Folklore y una variedad de Movimiento AfroLatino Seattle. Sandra es Gerente de participación comunitaria.
Sandra trabaja para profundizar las relaciones con agencias comunitarias, escuelas, organizaciones de atención médica y agencias gubernamentales mientras genera confianza, transparencia y un compromiso significativo con nuestros residentes. A través de eventos y conversaciones, identifica problemas emergentes que enfrentan nuestras diversas comunidades y ofrece clases y otras oportunidades para apoyar esas necesidades.
Peter and Tania reflect with Lupita on episodes 21 through 25.
Lupita Torres is a seasoned community organizer and leader. She is the founder of two nonprofit organizations in the Seattle-King County Metro region focused on developing Latine community leadership and advocacy for system change and advancing racial equity. She currently empowers students at Seattle University as an Early Learning Manager. When she was little, she wanted to grow up and be a bank teller to have a lot of money and buy shoes for birds.
Peter and Tania talk to Lonnie about heal trauma strategies.
Lonnie Renteria enjoys caring for patients of all walks of life, as well as building relationships with them. His goal is to help patients live healthy and fulfilling lives. His interests in psychotherapy include working with BIPOC and LGBTQ communities.
Lonnie has degrees in French from Portland State University, and Forensic Psychology and Clinical Psychology from Argosy University, Seattle, WA. He completed his practicum work at Youth Eastside Services, Bellevue, WA, where he treated children and their families and at Puentes Mental Health, Burien, WA, where he treated refugee and immigrant populations. He worked more recently at University of Washington Valley Medical Center’s Psychiatry and Counseling clinic, where he treated individuals, couples and families.
Lonnie is trained in Emotion-Focused Couples and Individual Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Narrative and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He especially enjoys Attachment-based work.
When away from his clinic, Lonnie is busy volunteering with agencies serving immigrant families, reading, binging television shows, or listening to his vinyl collection. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and has lived in France, Canada, and Mexico.
He is a lover of art and does what he can to surround himself with beauty. He has a passion for wholistic health and will often talk about yoga. He enjoys cooking and experimenting with making dishes that have international origins.
Tania and Peter talk to Dr. Fede and Dr. Arturo about their book on Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities
Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama is known for this work as the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab, and Affiliate Faculty in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas, Austin,[1] and Adjunct Professor & Distinguished University Professor[2] at The Ohio State University.[3]
Dr. Arturo J. Aldama is an associate professor and chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and affiliate faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies.
And, together they are co-editors of the book Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities where they explore how legacies of colonization and capitalist exploitation and oppression have created toxic forms of masculinity that continue to suffocate our existence as Latinxs. The book intends to decolonize masculinities today to grow a stronger, resilient, and more compassionate new generation of Latinxs.
Peter and Tania talk to Ramona about the concept that our stories are our medicine to healing our trauma.
Ramona Beltrán, MSW, PhD is a mixed-race Xicana of Yaqui and Mexica descent and dancer/activist/scholar. As an Associate Professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, her scholarship focuses on interrupting legacies of historical trauma that affect Indigenous and Latinx communities with a commitment to addressing issues facing women, youth, LGBTQ and Two Spirit communities. She is particularly interested in disrupting the problem-focused approach to understanding Indigenous and Latinx health and well-being that is common in mainstream research. She does this by centering cultural protective factors, strengths and resiliencies, art, and storytelling in investigating and collaborating with Indigenous and Latinx communities.
Milvia Pacheco es una artista afrolatina nacida en Caracas, Venezuela, donde comenzó su carrera como bailarina combinando danza y formación teatral. Sus experiencias con el trauma a una edad temprana alimentaron en ella un impulso apremiante hacia el movimiento. Luego dedicó su vida a alcanzar la liberación a través del arte y el movimiento. En su camino, se convirtió en bailarina contemporánea, coreógrafa, performer, bodyworker, artista visual, madre y organizadora comunitaria. Actualmente se desempeña como Directora Ejecutiva de MÁS (Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle), que se ha convertido en la plataforma donde continúa sirviendo como conducto para el empoderamiento y más allá del empoderamiento para ella y los demás.
Milvia Pacheco is an Afro-Latina artist born in Caracas, Venezuela, where she began her career as a dancer combining dance and theater training. Her experiences with trauma at an early age fueled in her a pressing drive toward movement. She went on to devote her life to reaching liberation through art and movement. In her journey, she became a contemporary dancer, choreographer, performer, bodyworker, visual artist, mother and Community Organizer. Currently she serves as Executive Director of MÁS (Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle) which has become the platform where she continues serving as a conduit for empowerment and beyond empowerment for herself and others.
Tania and Peter speak with Dr. Bonilla-Santiago about her book breaking ground and barriers- Hispanic Women Developing Effective Leadership and her new book The Miracle in Cooper Street.
is a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Administration and Director of the Center for Strategic Urban Community Leadership at Rutgers University-Camden.
She wrote one of the earliest books on Latine leadership, Breaking Ground and Barriers: Hispanic Women Developing Effective Leadership in 1992.
She is also the founder of the successful charter school in Camden New Jersey called Leadership, Education, and Partnership, also known as the “LEAP” Academy. And, in her book, The Miracle on Cooper Street: Lessons from an Inner City, she shares inspiring stories developing the LEAP Academy, and how to empower low-income youth with knowledge, values, and leadership.
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Peter and Tania talk to Dr. Siu about decolonizing early childhood education
Oriel María Siu is a Náhuatl/Pipil/Chinese writer, scholar, and educator from Honduras. She is the writer of the children’s book series, Rebeldita the Fearless / Rebeldita la Alegre. In 2020, Dr. Siu was selected "Top Ten New Latinx Authors" by Latino Stories for her contributions to children's literature. In this series, Dr. Siu centralizes the power of children and challenges the colonizer Narrative from an Indigenous Perspective. Throughout her journey as an educator, Dr. Siu has been a strong proponent of Ethnic Studies, contributing her research, writing and teaching to sustaining and expanding this transformative, needed, academic field.
Since her arrival in Los Angeles, Dr. Siu has contributed to the creation of cultural and academic spaces for the growing Central American, Indigenous, Black and Brown communities in the U.S., helping establish the first Central American Studies Program at California State University, Northridge in 1999, and founding the Latina/o Studies program at the University of Puget Sound in 2012. Throughout her journey as an educator, Dr. Siu has been a strong proponent of Ethnic Studies, contributing her research, writing and teaching to sustaining and expanding this transformative, needed, academic field.
Dr. Siu holds a Masters in Latin American Literatures from UC Berkeley, and a Doctoral Degree in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught courses on race, immigration, Central American, Chicana/o and Latinx literatures, while publishing multiple articles, chapters, and academic works on these topics in numerous national and international journals and books. Among the universities where Dr. Siu has taught are UCLA, the University of Puget Sound, Chapman University, and Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
After becoming a mother in 2013, Dr. Siu encountered the problem all socially-conscious parents face: the lack of inspiring, empowering, historically on-point, and culturally sensitive books for children of color in the U.S. So she decided to write her own. She is now writing the children’s book series, Rebeldita the Fearless / Rebeldita la Alegre, published by Izote and Rebeldita Press. In this series, Dr. Siu centralizes the power of children vis-a-vis destructive ogre-forces living in society.
Dr. Siu lives and writes out of Los Angeles, California, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras, with her daughter Suletu Ixakbal.
In 2020, Dr. Siu was selected "Top Ten New Latino Latinx Authors" by Latino Stories for her contributions to children's literature in the United States.
Tania y Peter hablan con Monica sobre sanar el trauma a través del arte y la música
Monica Rojas-Stewart tiene un doctorado en Antropología Cultural de la Universidad de Washington y ha colaborado como coreógrafa, consultora cultural, artista invitada, instructora de música y danza con varios programas universitarios y de educación comunitaria para jóvenes y adultos en todo el noroeste del Pacífico. Madre, esposa, artista, activista y académica, es una promotora y educadora pionera de las artes afroperuanas y afrolatinas en el noroeste del Pacífico y más allá. Rojas es fundadora del Proyecto DE CAJóN y del Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle (MAS), dos organizaciones comunitarias de base dedicadas a educar y concientizar sobre los aportes culturales de los afrodescendientes en Perú y América Latina respectivamente. Rojas ocupa actualmente dos puestos como subdirector de los programas de estudios africanos y de estudios latinoamericanos y caribeños en la Escuela de Estudios Internacionales Henry M. Jackson de la Universidad de Washington. Rojas fue nominada recientemente para el Premio al Personal Distinguido de la UW y recibió el premio Tumi USA, el máximo reconocimiento que otorga la comunidad peruana en los EE. UU. por “haber sobresalido en su carrera, servicio comunitario y por sus contribuciones al mejoramiento de sociedad."
Peter and Tania speak to Emma about her experience with migrant farm workers and the power of humility. She states "we all have our song"
Emma Torres, Cofundadora y Vice-Presidenta de la Mesa Directiva
Emma Torres grew up as a migrant farmworker and community activist leader. She has been working as a community representative and farm worker advocate since 1984, at which time she developed some of the earliest templates for community health worker leadership development. She is the founder and CEO of Campesinos Sin Fronteras, a community-based organization serving border families in Yuma County, Arizona. With over 30 years of experience in public health, she co-founded Alianza Nacional de Campesinas to develop farm worker leaders nationally.
Peter and Tania speak to Lonnie about trauma part II
Lonnie Renteria enjoys caring for patients of all walks of life, as well as building relationships with them. His goal is to help patients live healthy and fulfilling lives. His interests in psychotherapy include working with BIPOC and LGBTQ communities.
Lonnie has degrees in French from Portland State University, and Forensic Psychology and Clinical Psychology from Argosy University, Seattle, WA. He completed his practicum work at Youth Eastside Services, Bellevue, WA, where he treated children and their families and at Puentes Mental Health, Burien, WA, where he treated refugee and immigrant populations. He worked more recently at University of Washington Valley Medical Center’s Psychiatry and Counseling clinic, where he treated individuals, couples and families.
Lonnie is trained in Emotion-Focused Couples and Individual Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Narrative and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He especially enjoys Attachment-based work.
When away from his clinic, Lonnie is busy volunteering with agencies serving immigrant families, reading, binging television shows, or listening to his vinyl collection. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and has lived in France, Canada, and Mexico.
He is a lover of art and does what he can to surround himself with beauty. He has a passion for wholistic health and will often talk about yoga. He enjoys cooking and experimenting with making dishes that have international origins. https://www.lonnierenteriacounselingpllc.com/about
Peter and Tania talk about their old traditions and new traditions the want to create.
Resting is decolonizing your mind. Adelante leadership podcast hosts are taking a break from December 20th 2022 to January 10th 2023.
What are your traditions? What are some new traditions you want to create? How do you take rest?
Happy New Year!
Peter and Tania reflect on episode 10 through 11.
Topics are decolonizing policy, reflecting with Pedro about his North Star, love and mentorinship in leadership, listening to our community and decolonizing art.
Episode 10 -Richard Romero : The power of accepting your culture
Episode 11 - Reflections with Pedro Arellano Camarena on previous episodes and the power of Pedro's leadership story
Episode 12- Teresa Mosqueda: Decolonizing Policy
Episode 13- Descolonizando el arte y la cultura (Spanish Episode)
Peter y Tania hablan con Nancy Nancy Salguero, directora ejecutiva del Highline Heritage Museum, es la primera directora nacida en México en el estado de Washington. Además, Nancy es la primera mujer latinoamericana en formar parte de la junta directiva de la Asociación de Museos de Washington. Nacida y criada en la Ciudad de México, durante los últimos 18 años, Nancy, con un equipo de voluntarios y miembros de la comunidad, trabaja para preservar, recopilar y contar historias de la región de Highline y su gente. Fue instructora de diseño de exhibiciones para el programa de certificación de educación continua y profesional de la UW durante dos años. Los premios de Nancy incluyen la Asociación de Museos de Washington, la Asociación de Organizaciones Históricas del Condado de King, Ciudadana del año 2022 para la ciudad de Burien y otros reconocimientos especiales. Se ha desempeñado como miembro de la junta de múltiples organizaciones. Actualmente, es presidenta electa de la Cámara de Comercio de Seattle Southside.English-
Nancy Salguero, Executive Director of the Highline Heritage Museum, is the first Mexican-born director in Washington State. Also, Nancy is the first Latin American woman to sit on the board of the Washington Museum Association. Born and raised in Mexico City, for the last 18 years, Nancy, with a team of volunteers and community members, works to preserve, collect and tell stories of the Highline region and its people. She was an Exhibit Design instructor for the UW Professional and Continuing Education certificate program for two years. Nancy’s awards include from the Washington Museum Association, Association of King County Historical Organizations, 2022 Citizen of the year for the City of Burien, and other special recognitions. She has served as a board member of multiple organizations. Currently, she is the Chair-elect for the Seattle Southside Chamber of Commerce.
Tania and Peter talk to Teresa about Decolonizing Policy and Reform
Teresa Mosqueda is a Latine community leader from an early age. She has practiced her leadership as labor organizer for living wages, worker protections, health equity, and immigrant rights. Her statewide leadership efforts garnered several honors of achievement such as her work to provide health insurance to children in Washington State. She was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2017, where continues to serve and where she has championed more equitable voter participation, low-wage worker protections, and includes people most directly impacted by policies in the process to close inequity gaps in public benefits.
https://www.teamteresa.org/about/
Tania and Peter reflect with Pedro Arellano on Episode 6-10.
Pedro reflects on how Leno, Senator Rebecca, Lonnie, Jacque and Richard show a common theme of a north star, love and mentorship in their leadership. While he didn’t recognize it as leadership until more recently, Pedro Arellano Camarena has practiced it for many years, as a stellar math teacher, assistant high school principal and as a father. He brings his values to his work and life as he works to lead change in schools and public education for improved outcomes for Latine youth.
Peter and Tania talk to Richard about the power of accepting your culture.
Richard Romero as President/CEO of Seattle Credit Union, he is all about personal prosperity for others.
Leadership and the ability to relate are essential to his work for Seattle Credit Union’s members.
He believes his personal immigrant experience gave him the ability to connect with any person .
From his perspective, leading Seattle Credit Union allows him to pay back his own success to the members and the community at large.
Peter y Tania hablan con
Jacque Larrainzar nació en la Ciudad de México y vino a los Estados Unidos como asilado político. Su caso de asilo abrió las puertas a miles de personas LGBTQ+ que buscaban seguridad y libertad para vivir y amar. Es conocida por su trabajo para promover la equidad racial en instituciones gubernamentales como la ciudad de Seattle y la ciudad de Oakland sobre igualdad racial, derechos LGBTQI, derechos de la mujer, derechos indígenas, inmigrantes y refugiados y las artes. Le encanta apoyar a los miembros y al personal de la comunidad para que se conviertan en líderes que puedan impulsar el cambio institucional centrando sus fortalezas, bienestar y sabiduría para promover políticas, programas y servicios que creen un gobierno democrático antirracista, responsable, responsable, transparente e inclusivo.
Trabajó para la Ciudad de Seattle, donde fue Directora de Políticas en la Oficina de Derechos Civiles, Elecciones del Condado de King, donde ayudó a diseñar un programa de educación electoral inclusivo para personas que no hablan inglés y un modelo de desarrollo comunitario para apoyar a las organizaciones comunitarias a educar e involucrar a los votantes en sus comunidades y en la ciudad de Oakland, CA, donde es analista de programas para el Departamento de Raza y Equidad de Oakland, la primera agencia gubernamental dedicada a promover la justicia racial dentro de un gobierno local. . Es miembro del consejo asesor de InReach, una organización LGBTIQ+ que ayuda a las personas a encontrar ayuda segura en todo el mundo.
Tania and Peter speak with Lonnie about trauma and decolonization in our Latine community. Part 1 -Healing from Trauma is essential to be a good leader. Stay tuned for Part 2 and Part 3.
Lonnie Tristan Renteria is a scholar, activist, creative type, teacher and therapist. He is a former college professor and enjoys the psycho-education aspect of therapy. He has produced documentaries, written, acted in and directed shows. Lonnie is an expert in psychology and trauma recovery. He has taught classes in French, Spanish, Psychology, Special Topics, Cultural and Critical Theory. Teaching is his passion. When he is not teaching, he is engaged in community building events, reading a book, writing or watching films.
Lonnie Renteria enjoys caring for patients of all walks of life, as well as building relationships with them. His goal is to help patients live healthy and fulfilling lives. His interests in psychotherapy include working with BIPOC and LGBTQ communities.
Lonnie has degrees in French from Portland State University, and Forensic Psychology and Clinical Psychology from Argosy University, Seattle, WA. He completed his practicum work at Youth Eastside Services, Bellevue, WA, where he treated children and their families and at Puentes Mental Health, Burien, WA, where he treated refugee and immigrant populations. He worked more recently at University of Washington Valley Medical Center’s Psychiatry and Counseling clinic, where he treated individuals, couples and families.
Lonnie is trained in Emotion-Focused Couples and Individual Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Narrative and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He especially enjoys Attachment-based work.
When away from his clinic, Lonnie is busy volunteering with agencies serving immigrant families, reading, binging television shows, or listening to his vinyl collection. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and has lived in France, Canada, and Mexico.
He is a lover of art and does what he can to surround himself with beauty. He has a passion for wholistic health and will often talk about yoga. He enjoys cooking and experimenting with making dishes that have international origins.
https://www.lonnierenteriacounselingpllc.com/
Tania and Peter speak to Senator Rebecca about staying true to your values
Rebecca Saldaña grew up in Seattle in a union household, where she learned early on the importance of working together in community to fight discrimination and injustice. She has worked as a union organizer and in nonprofit organizations which prepared her to become Washington State Senator of the 37th district. She has focused her career and leadership to advance immigrant rights, a fair economy, and a more equitable society.
Tania and Peter talk to Leno about Leading because "History cannot wait"
Leno grew up in Las Animas, Colorado, one of 12 children to immigrant parents from Mexico.
He began working in the fields with his father at the early age of 11 and by 13 was traveling the Migrant Stream to various northern states.
The death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 propelled Leno to speak out along with black and white students at the University of Colorado. This protest brought big changes in the school’s admission policies, and sports programs, and created the first programs for students of color.
In the 70s he worked with United Farm Workers were learned about the power of love over hatred and where he embraced nonviolence which would later lead to work that he would do with gangs and against the Death Penalty.
Over the years, Leno has worked with leaders such as Coretta Scott King, Dr. Joe Lowery, and Sister Helen Prejea
He has applied his leadership in his work as the founding director of the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, at Amnesty International, and the Peace Corps.
His work with gangs led to the formation of HOMIES UNIDOS.
Leno is a gifted public speaker and poet. Today he works on behalf of human and environmental rights and for judicial reform.
Today Leno serves as Executive Director of BUILDING BRIDGES an innovative program that supports human rights for immigrants. This project takes activists and donations to the border to meet and support those who are fighting for immigrants and asylum seeker. These groups include DEPORTED VETERANS, DREAMERS MOMS, JUVENTUD 2000 (a shelter for mothers and children), and Al Otro Lado (an amazing legal program in Tijuana).
She would later go on to write the book entitled DEAD MAN WALKING and a movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn was soon produced.
Soon he was able to organize La Mara Salvatrucha and 18th street members into an organization in El Salvador. This new and most interesting organization was called. Soon they organized gang members in Los Angeles where Alex Sanchez a former MS 13 leader is now leading this movement.
In 1996 leno moved with his family to El Salvador where while writing his book got involved with deported gang members who had generated new locals of their Los Angeles gangs in San Salvador. Leno worked with gangs and did the only in-depth demographic study of gangs by gangs and for gangs. Their study Published by the UCA of El Salvador was the first of its kind. The study had the data from 1025 interviews with gang members. Prior to joining up with UFW leno was dealing drugs, sporting two loaded pistols, and had an armed posse of about 20 Chicanos who were waiting for the revolution.
Leno learned that you need to give gang members discipline, raise their self-esteem, and connect them with a family that would give them love, and finally that they needed to have a spiritual side to their lives.
Leno never got a salary for his work with Homies Unidos. Instead, he invested his retirement fund of about $75,000 and then ran up another $30,000 on credit cards. Leno's motivation was his sister Rebecca who died a drug addict and still loved life and her family till her last breath. Leno once told Becky that she was the reason he did work on behalf of the poor and that one day he would help someone in her name.
When asked if his investment in Homies was worth it. He responds by saying IF I HELPED TO SAVE ONE LIFE THAN IT WAS WORTH IT. Besides he believes that where he is going ultimately that he will not need money or credit cards.
Peter and Tania Reflexions on Season 2 Episodes 1 through 4.
This is a special episode in celebration of Latine Hispanic Heritage Month.
Topics include Decolonization, Social Justice, Activism, Social Justice Healing, Humility, Music and the Importance of Decolonizing our minds.
Episode 1- Monica Guzman discussing her bool "I Never thought of it that way": How to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerous divided times
Episode 2- Natalia Lozano- Decolonization and Feminism (Spanish Episode)
Episode 3- Anita Garcia Morales- Healing Intergenerational Trauma
Episode 4 Horacio Franco- Music and Decolonization
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Peter y Tania hablan con Horacio Franco sobre la música y descolonización
Horacio Franco es un flautista y flautista mexicano. Estudió en el Conservatorio Nacional de la Ciudad de México y posteriormente en el Sweelinck Conservatorium de Amsterdam, con Marijke Miessen y Walter van Hauwe. Franco ha interpretado muchos géneros musicales, desde música medieval, renacentista y barroca, incluida la música colonial latinoamericana, hasta estilos contemporáneos, folclóricos y populares.
La carrera de flautista de pico no existía en ese centro de estudios. Tras pedir una audición al entonces director de la Orquesta de Cámara del conservatorio, Icilio Bredo, escucharle tocar una pieza de Vivaldi, este le permitió ser solista con ese ensamble. A los 13 años, interpretó el Concierto en la manor de para flauta de pico y oboe, de Antonio Vivaldi. Entre 1986 y 1994, formó con Luisa Durón y Bozena Slawinska el Trio Hotteterre; entre 1993 y 1998 fue fundador, director e intérprete de la Capella Cervantina, que se convertiría en la Capella Barroca de México, un ensamble dedicado a la interpretación e investigación de la música borroca con instrumentos e intérpretes especializados en ese periodo musical. Fundaría también en esos años la Orquestra Borroca Capella Puebla.
Peter and Tania speak to Anita Garcia Morales about Healing Intergenerational Trauma Anita is CO-FOUNDER, Of Racing to Equity an organization with a mission to catalyze communities, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity and create equitable outcomes for all. She currently serves as: Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction, and Co-Principal Consultant For the first 21 years of her life, Anita’s experience as a migrant farm worker took her across the United States. Living in labor camps, doing all manner of field work, being the perpetual immigrant student in class and sensing the “otherness” to which her family and ethnic group were subjected to were what shaped Anita’s racial, class, and cultural lens. She lived out her dream and taught in Seattle Public Schools for 22 years. She has also led as a social studies coach, and then as a racial equity strategist with the district’s Department of Equity & Race Relations. You can learn more about her work at https://www.racingtoequity.org/
Peter y Tania hablan con Natalia Lozano
Natalia es Directora de Programas del Fondo de Jóvenes de América Central y México (CAMY), en la Fundación Internacional de Seattle, donde comparte su visión en los movimientos de liderazgo juvenil y feminista para promover la justicia social en México y América Central.
Natalia es una joven hondureña, feminista y activista por los derechos humanos de las mujeres, LGBTQ+ y jóvenes, con más de 14 años de experiencia.
Natalia tiene un compromiso de larga tiempo con la defensa de los Derechos Humanos y la Salud, así también con los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (SDSR), lo que la ha llevado a involucrarse en iniciativas como Representante de la Juventud en el Consejo Consultivo Nacional de Derechos Humanos en Honduras en el 2014.
Ha participado activamente en la Red de Jóvenes Parlamentarios, llegando a identificar las principales necesidades de la juventud hondureña desde una perspectiva legislativa a través de consultas juveniles.
Natalia también contribuyó a la implementación del Diplomado en Técnicas Parlamentarias y Negociación Política para el Congreso Nacional de Honduras con el Centro de Investigación y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CIPRODEH) en el 2015.
“Me apasiona mi trabajo porque veo las diferentes oportunidades que tenemos en el mundo para hacer cambios y evolucionar; aunque muchas veces podemos ver retrocesos importantes, también vemos cómo las personas resurgen con más fuerza para seguir luchando por sus derechos”.
Durante los últimos 4 años, ha desarrollado experiencia a nivel nacional, regional e internacional en la defensa de los derechos. Es ex Coordinadora Nacional de la plataforma hondureña “Derechos Aquí y Ahora”, que brinda apoyo a 15 organizaciones que trabajan por SDSR y prioriza la diversidad en los jóvenes.
Este camino a llevado a Natalia a la liderar eventos regionales e internacionales, como Defensora de Jóvenes para la Tercera Conferencia Regional sobre Población y Desarrollo en Lima, Perú, y como Defensora de Jóvenes para la Comisión y Condición de la Mujer (CSW 62 y 63) en los Estados Unidos en 2018 y 2019, convirtiéndose parte de la Delegación Oficial de Honduras en 2019.
Natalia ha sido oradora juvenil en la Conferencia Global WomenDeliver en Vancouver, Canadá en 2019. También ha dado seguimiento a los compromisos de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Población y Desarrollo (CIPD) en Nairobi, Kenya y fue invitada por el Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas ( UNFPA) como ponente en la reunión de preparación de la CIPD en Puebla, México.
Natalia también ha abogado por la juventud en la 14ª Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe en Santiago de Chile en 2020. Esta experiencia la llevó a la creación del Informe Periódico Universal Sombra de la Juventud, que Natalia presentó en 2020 con la plataforma Hondureña Derechos aquí y ahora.
Peter and Tania speak to Mónica about Humility
Mónica Gúzman is the Director of Digital and Storytelling at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America. She is also host of the Crosscut interview series Northwest Newsmakers, and author of the book I Never Thought Of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times. Available for pre-order now!
Before committing to the project of helping people understand each other across the political divide, Mónica cofounded the award-winning Seattle newsletter The Evergrey and led a national network of groundbreaking local newsletters as VP of Local for WhereBy.Us.
Mónica Guzmán lives for great conversations sparked by curious questions.
Please visit us at www.adelanteleadership.com
Tania and Peter reflect on episodes 7-12
Tania Hino (she/her/ella) A mother of three, she strives to create safe spaces for people of color to be heard.
Her personal values; integrity, love for culture, respect, and enjoyment of the process are transferred to her work, family, and community. While studying for her doctoral degree, she runs a podcast called Parenting Takes a Village, is the founder of the nonprofit Somos Mujeres Latinas, runs storytime at a Seattle library, raises her three children, and takes care of her dog, Idly.
Recipient of the Val Donato Parent Education Award for excellence in teaching and building a community for children, families, and teachers in 2017. Tania sees her community work closely to the way she is a mother. “It's not about raising a child how I want them to be. They are like plants, they will come out as they want to be. I just need to support them."
Peter Bloch Garcia (him/el)
His values are humility, racial equity, and environmental sustainability. He has spent most of his career in the nonprofit sector where his leadership practice aims to advance racial equity. Most of his nonprofit experience has been in the nexus between philanthropy and BIPOC communities. He was founder, past President, and Executive Director of Latino Community Fund of Washington, and now serves a variety of nonprofits as a consultant, board member, and interim executive roles. 2019 Finalist Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize & Blue Mountain Review
Peter Bloch Garcia values humility, racial equity, and environmental sustainability. He has spent most of his career in the nonprofit sector where his leadership practice aims to advance racial equity. Most of his nonprofit experience has been in the nexus between philanthropy and BIPOC communities. He was founder, past President, and Executive Director of Latino Community Fund of Washington, and now serves a variety of nonprofits as a consultant, board member, and interim executive roles.
www.adelanteleadership.com
Peter and Tania talk to Angela ‘Mictlanxochitl’ about cultural identity.
Angela ‘Mictlanxochitl’ Anderson Guerrero Angela, PHD, MPP is the inaugural Executive Director of LIDERAMOS - The National Latino Leadership Alliance.
is a contemporary healer holding and guiding strategic change built in self-worth to regenerate radical compassion for a new world of equity, sustainability, and wonder. With over 25 years of experience in community engagement and leading organizations, she strives to be a leader in these times of survival. As a policy advocate and researcher, she served as the Director of Operations for the Institute for Diversity in Health Management and co-founded the National Forum for Healthcare Executives. She also served as the Program Director of the Center for Metropolitan Chicago Initiatives of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Recognizing the possibilities at the intersections of education, spirituality, and personal development, she completed her doctorate in transpersonal psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In response to the global pandemic, she is a research associate with Latino Policy Forum and a volunteer with The National Coalition of Latinos Against COVID-19.
She is a specialist in the effective communication of pluralities of knowledge across cultural and organizational borders. She serves as a council member of Danza de la Huitzilmeztli and Danza de Luna Xinachtli Meztli, both transterritorial Mesoamerican ceremonial practices.
She earned her Master of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and completed her undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame.
https://lideramos.org/
Peter and Tania speak to Phyllis former member of the Washington House of Representative.
Representative Phyllis Gutiérrez Kenney was appointed to the Washington State Legislature in January 1997 and retired in 2012. She served sixteen years as a member of the House of Representatives. She chaired the House Committee on Community, Economic Development, and Trade and was a member of the General Government Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees. She was also the chaired of the House Higher Education Committee for six years.
In addition, she served as a member of the House and Senate Joint Committee on Economic Development and International Relations, chaired by the Lieutenant Governor, as well as the Governor’s Council on Aerospace and the Washington Economic Development Commission. In both her professional and legislative activities, Representative Gutiérrez Kenney has consistently addressed issues concerning health, education, affordable housing, human rights, civil rights, family-wage jobs, economic development, and transportation.Representative Gutiérrez Kenney began her career as a community activist in the Yakima Valley and in the Tri-Cities, where she was the co-founder of the Washington State Migrant Child Care Centers, the Educational Institute for Rural Families, and the Farm Workers Clinics. She was also instrumental in establishing statewide Child Care and Early Childhood Education Teacher Training Programs.
Education has always been a top priority for Representative Gutiérrez Kenney. During her legislative career, she has sponsored legislation to create scholarships to expand access to college for low-income and minority student. In addition, she has sponsored legislation creating the I-BEST and Opportunity Grants programs that have been recognized at both the local and national levels. The Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program teaches students basic skills while allowing them to earn credit toward a certificate or degree. The Opportunity Grant program helps low-income adults train for high-wage, high-demand careers.
Representative Gutiérrez Kenney is also a proponent for health care building safe and healthy communities. She has sponsored legislation requiring insurance companies to provide insurance coverage for colorectal cancer screening. Additionally, she was instrumental in providing the funding for a colorectal cancer screening program targeting the low-income population of Washington. She also created the Building Communities Fund, which provides communities with state matching grants to help fund community construction projects. She has been a strong advocate for funding to provide farmworker housing, spurring economic development throughout the state while also providing clean, safe housing for farmworker families in rural Washington.
Peter and Tania talks to Vincent about Healing Spaces in Leadership
Vincent mentions 6 Essential Elements of DEI
We are in this together. As we continue to grow as a multi-ethnic, multi-racial America, we can foster organizational equity by making deliberate decisions regarding our day-to-day practices. Join Vincent for his reflections on must-have elements of intersectional social justice and DEI:
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Healing, Liberation, and Celebration 2. Glossary of Terms 3. Agreements 4. Humanizing Practices 5. Historicizing Practices
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Vincent is the son of Yolanda Ramirez-Lemarr and Rudy Perez. He is the husband of Kim Jansen and father to Tristan, Chase, and Devon. He is brother to Marla, Rudy and Rebecca. Vincent’s vocation is dedicated to the art and skill of facilitation. Meaningful learning experiences that honor the dignity of participants is his first priority. Vincent currently leads Rethink Manhood, working with men and boys to deconstruct and counter cultural narratives regarding what it means to be a "real" man. In addition, Vincent currently leads the Equity Institute, a national collective of equity consultants and recently created an Equity Audit Instrument for educational institutions.
A note from Vincent: I am blessed to serve as a lead visionary for the Equity Institute, Rethink Manhood, and La Cima y ¡La Chispa! Bilingual Leadership. My vocational calling is to honor the dignity and identities of learners to grow access, agency, empowerment, inclusion, healing, joy, justice, liberation, solidarity, and sovereignty. I’ve dedicated my career to serving historically marginalized peoples through carceral studies, culturally responsive pedagogy, ethnic studies, experiential education, family engagement, healing-centered masculinity, implementation science, Indigenous epistemology, juvenile justice reform, Latinx bilingual leadership, MTSS, near-peer mentorship, policy analysis, program evaluation, student empowerment, and trauma-informed systems. I am always honored to share knowledge, skills, and attributes that humanize practitioners and clients.
https://www.rethinkmanhood.org/
Tania and Peter talk to Lupe about knowing how to guide your anger in Leadership.
Lupe Lopez, Founder and Principal Lupe Lopez is a nationally recognized expert in facilitating organizational transformations and leading and managing issue campaigns at the local, state and national level. She has decades of experience as a bilingual writer, social strategist, coach, trainer, organizational development consultant and facilitator.
Lupe believes in cutting-edge strategies to advance progressive values. She coaches executives and leaders so they can be effective agents of change. Lupe also develops diverse, inclusive and innovative networks and alliances. Her specialty is facilitating complex situations and implementing ambitious plans with an emphasis on diversity, inclusion and women’s leadership and equality. She is an expert in developing and implementing strategic plans, facilitating meetings, board development and creating strong teams. Through the years she has worked with scores of nonprofits at the local, state and national levels.
Lupe is passionate about women’s issues, diversity, and inclusion, access to health care, working with young people, immigrant rights, and faith communities. Currently, she is the Founder and Principal of Strong Women Action Network, a project of Tides Advocacy Fund that connects women to training, leadership development opportunities, political infrastructures and women-focused local and national organizations. The purpose is to create environments that will help women move into positions of power so they can impact organizations, structures, policies and participate in the public arena. The long-term vision is to achieve a diverse and inclusive society that supports women’s leadership styles and women’s impact on society. More information here on Lupe’s LinkedIn profile.
Tania and Peter talk to Guillermo about modeling leadership and what it is "Acomedido" in our latine community.
Guillermo Carvajal believes that women are the key to creating a more just and content world. He believes that they have the capacity and lived experience to appreciate and understand what human beings need for a decent life. The more successes women accumulate, the more secured and healthy their family. And for me, the children of these women have a greater chance to do well in school and take hold of their own dreams. So it’s in my interest to see a growing number of Latina women succeeding.
The success of our students is directly tied to the success of their mothers. The women that have participated in the Symposium appreciate the power of hopes and aspirations. And all of men, women and us that can help provide tools and resources for their success should do so.
Guillermo was born in Costa Rica and raised in the Big Apple. I am a family support worker for Seattle Public Schools. He has a Master’s degree in human development. He has spent the last 20 years in the social service sector and a dedicated human rights supporter. He has also have volunteered in behalf of Latino arts and culture, and been privileged to work with many ethnic and minority communities.
Guillermo states "my mom and my job have helped me to appreciate the power of dreams and aspirations. People must allow themselves to hold on to and nourish their hopes and passions. Sometimes that is the only thing that keeps them strong in the face of trauma and struggle."
Peter and Tania talk to Alfredo about leadership tools every leader needs.
Alfredo Carrasquillo is a renowned executive leadership coach and organizational development consultant devoted to the mission of unlocking human potential and removing obstacles that prevent teams and organizations from achieving their strategic goals.
Drawing on his interdisciplinary and multicultural educational background which includes undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and professional studies in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States, he has proven for over two decades that his combination of capabilities and his blend of education and experience are unparalleled in bringing about the affirmative transformation of his clients. His experience as an executive leadership coach and organizational development consultant is vast and has enabled his clients to successfully experience new terrains and embark in strong, well-thought and well-defined strategies that have translated into sound business results.
During the last twenty-five years, he has partnered with clients, both in Puerto Rico and in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States. Clients he has served include Acrecent Financial, Aids United, AIG, Amgen, Amnesty International, AON, Assurant, AstraZeneca, AT Kearney, Bacardi, Banco Popular, Bellagio, B Fernández y Hnos, Biomet, Bristol-Myers, Casa Grande, Cemex, Centros Sor Isolina Ferré, Coliseo de Puerto Rico, Conagra Foods, CooperVision, Coors, Enco, FiDelis, First Bank, First Transit, Fundación Ángel Ramos, Fundación Miranda, Glaxo Smith Kline, Grupo Ferré Rangel, Hilton, Johnson & Johnson, JWT, Lexus, Lilly, Kettering Foundation, Kimberly-Clark, McCain Foods, Medical Card System, Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción, Merck, Municipio Autónomo de Caguas, Muñoz Holdings, NetExpat, Nuestra Escuela, Pagés BBDO, Peces, Proyecto Nacer, Public Agenda, Ricoh, Tolic, Toyota, Vibra and Weco.
His outstanding listening skills as well as his training as a psychoanalyst and coach provide the depth of knowledge and ability that can change – and has changed – the structures and strictures of leaders, social entrepreneurs, managers and executives in Latin America and the United States.
Leaders, executives and teams in corporations, family firms, governmental and non-governmental organizations have turned to Alfredo Carrasquillo to sharpen and foster their needs and learn in the process that for any idea to fructify the strategic framework on which it is based should be a major and crucial stepping-stone, not diluting the strategy but augmenting and working with the possibilities it offers.
https://instituteofcoaching.org/users/alfredo-carrasquillo
Peter and Tania they reflect on the first five episodes and key take aways with the powerful interviews with great Latine leaders.
Episode 1- Luis Ortega: the power of Your Story
Episode 2- Dr. Juana Bordas- Our Culture is our Super Power
Episode 3- Magdaleno (Leno) Rose-Avila- Leading with a sense of Humor
Episode 4- Denise Collazo- Thriving in the Fight
Episode 5- Hannah Aguilar & Sophie Szew- Founders of Youth Latinx Leadership Conference (YLLC)
Peter and Tania speak to Hannah and Sophie two powerful young latine leaders.
Hannah Aguilar and Sohpie Szew were both in high school when they met and began stepping into their leadership. They both supported and encouraged each other while serving as Presidents of their school’s student bodies at majority White student schools. They both shared the same vision to support other Latine student-change makers to form a mentoring networks that fosters cultural pride and supports more students to step into leadership.
While organizing Latine students at their respective schools, they took it further and organized the Youth Latinx Leadership Conference which included hundreds of other Latine youth from across southern California.
Hannah is finishing her senior year of high school where she also serves as President of her schools Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and is working hard to put on another Youth Latinx Leadership Conference in April.
Sophie also serves as an intern for the U.S. House of Representatives, where she currently works for Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34). She is a mental health and cultural justice advocate, writer, educator, and award winning poet. Her mission is to change the dialogue around marginalized bodies and mental healthcare access. She also serves on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation as a Youth Advisory Board Member and on the Youth Mental Health Leadership Council (YMHLC) for Mental Health America . I am also very excited to have been selected to present my advocacy work at the MTV mental health Youth action forum in collaboration with the Biden-Harris administration at the White House.
Hannah and Sophie’s work was recently recognized by ltxconnect.org receiving The Voces de la Comunidad award for their work to create a better experience for Latine communities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=85CT1ThlvNo&t=1s
Peter and Tania talk to Denise about her book Thriving in the Fight
Denise Padin Collazo is a social justice leader, a mentor to fellow women of color, and an award winning author. She is squarely focused on encouraging women of color to lead into their vision, live into their fullest selves, and love past negatives that hold them back.
Denise is the Chief of external affairs at Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network), the nation’s largest faith-based, progressive organizing network, where she has advanced the cause of social justice over the past twenty-five years.
She is a gifted speaker who leaves listeners compelled to take action on how they can act on their purpose. Denise mentors, coaches, and raises funds in collaboration with other women to find the just solutions we so desperately need.
She is a highly relational, authentic leader with a track record of building strong relationships across racial, cultural, faith and gender differences. She has developed and executed complex strategy and project management as demonstrated by her leadership of large, multi-partner winning ballot measures and electoral campaigns at the city, state and national level.
And she is the author of the recent book: Thriving in the Fight; A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change.
Information about her book and more can be found at
https://denisecollazo.com/
Tania and Peter talk to Leno about learning to lead with love, humility, and humor.
Magdaleno Leno Rose-Avila
Leno grew up in Las Animas, Colorado, one of 12 children to immigrant parents from Mexico.
He began working in the fields with his father at the early age of 11 and by 13 was traveling the Migrant Stream to various northern states.
The death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 propelled Leno to speak out along with black and white students at the University of Colorado. This protest brought big changes in the school’s admission policies, and sports programs, and created the first programs for students of color.
In the 70s he worked with United Farm Workers were learned about the power of love over hatred and where he embraced nonviolence which would later lead to work that he would do with gangs and against the Death Penalty.
Over the years, Leno has worked with leaders such as Coretta Scott King, Dr. Joe Lowery, and Sister Helen Prejea
He has applied his leadership in his work as the founding director of the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, at Amnesty International, and the Peace Corps.
His work with gangs led to the formation of HOMIES UNIDOS.
Leno is a gifted public speaker and poet. Today he works on behalf of human and environmental rights and for judicial reform.
Today Leno serves as Executive Director of BUILDING BRIDGES an innovative program that supports human rights for immigrants. This project takes activists and donations to the border to meet and support those who are fighting for immigrants and asylum seeker. These groups include DEPORTED VETERANS, DREAMERS MOMS, JUVENTUD 2000 (a shelter for mothers and children), and Al Otro Lado (an amazing legal program in Tijuana).
She would later go on to write the book entitled DEAD MAN WALKING and a movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn was soon produced.
Soon he was able to organize La Mara Salvatrucha and 18th street members into an organization in El Salvador. This new and most interesting organization was called. Soon they organized gang members in Los Angeles where Alex Sanchez a former MS 13 leader is now leading this movement.
In 1996 leno moved with his family to El Salvador where while writing his book got involved with deported gang members who had generated new locals of their Los Angeles gangs in San Salvador. Leno worked with gangs and did the only in-depth demographic study of gangs by gangs and for gangs. Their study Published by the UCA of El Salvador was the first of its kind. The study had the data from 1025 interviews with gang members. Prior to joining up with UFW leno was dealing drugs, sporting two loaded pistols, and had an armed posse of about 20 Chicanos who were waiting for the revolution.
Leno learned that you need to give gang members discipline, raise their self-esteem, and connect them with a family that would give them love, and finally that they needed to have a spiritual side to their lives.
Leno never got a salary for his work with Homies Unidos. Instead, he invested his retirement fund of about $75,000 and then ran up another $30,000 on credit cards. Leno's motivation was his sister Rebecca who died a drug addict and still loved life and her family till her last breath. Leno once told Becky that she was the reason he did work on behalf of the poor and that one day he would help someone in her name.
When asked if his investment in Homies was worth it. He responds by saying IF I HELPED TO SAVE ONE LIFE THAN IT WAS WORTH IT. Besides he believes that where he is going ultimately that he will not need money or credit cards.
Tania and Peter have a conversation about why they use Latine instead of Latinx?
They share their hopes for the Latine Community.
Peter Bloch Garcia (him/el)
His values are humility, racial equity, and environmental sustainability. He has spent most of his career in the nonprofit sector where his leadership practice aims to advance racial equity. Most of his nonprofit experience has been in the nexus between philanthropy and BIPOC communities. He was founder, past President, and Executive Director of Latino Community Fund of Washington, and now serves a variety of nonprofits as a consultant, board member, and interim executive roles. 2019 Finalist Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize & Blue Mountain Review
Tania Hino (she/her/ella) A mother of three, she strives to create safe spaces for people of color to be heard.
Her personal values; integrity, love for culture, respect, and enjoyment of the process are transferred to her work, family, and community. While studying for her doctoral degree, she runs a podcast called Parenting Takes a Village, is the founder of the nonprofit Somos Mujeres Latinas, runs storytime at a Seattle library, raises her three children, and takes care of her dog, Idly.
Recipient of the Val Donato Parent Education Award for excellence in teaching and building a community for children, families, and teachers in 2017. Tania sees her community work closely to the way she is a mother. “It's not about raising a child how I want them to be. They are like plants, they will come out as they want to be. I just need to support them."
Peter Bloch Garcia values humility, racial equity, and environmental sustainability. He has spent most of his career in the nonprofit sector where his leadership practice aims to advance racial equity. Most of his nonprofit experience has been in the nexus between philanthropy and BIPOC communities. He was founder, past President, and Executive Director of Latino Community Fund of Washington, and now serves a variety of nonprofits as a consultant, board member, and interim executive roles.
Tania and Peter talk to Dr. Juana Bordas
Juana Bordas emigrated to the U.S. from Nicaragua on a banana boat. The youngest daughter in a family of eight, she was the first to go to college. Upon graduating, she joined the Peace Corps and worked in the barrios of Santiago, Chile. Juana later received the Franklin Williams Award from the Peace Corps for her lifelong commitment to advancing communities of color.
Juana was a founder and executive director of Denver’s Mi Casa Women’s Center. Today, Mi Casa is the largest Hispanic serving organization in Colorado. She was the founding President of the National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI). In 2001 she founded the Circle of Latina Leadership to prepare the next generation of leaders. For her extensive work with Latinas, she was commended by Latina Style Magazine for creating “a Nation of Latina Leaders.” Juana was the first Latina faculty for the Center for Creative Leadership and taught in The Leadership Development Program – the most highly utilized executive training program in the world. She has designed, developed, and implemented leadership programs for national nonprofits, corporations, and government agencies across the country. She has led The Young Hispanic Corporate Achievers since its founding teaching 13 classes and working with over 350 young leaders.
Her book Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age won the International Latino Book Award for leadership in 2008 and is utilized in over 200 Universities. In 2014 her book The Power of Latino Leadership was recognized with the Nautilus Award for Best Multicultural book and the International Latino Award for leadership. In 2015 she contributed to the new edition of Peter Drucker’s, Five Questions Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today’s Leaders.
She served as an advisor to Harvard’s Hispanic Journal on Public Policy, the Kellogg National Fellows Program, as board vice-chair of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, and a trustee of the International Leadership Association (ILA). Juana received an honorary doctorate from Union University in 2009 and received the Life-Time Achievement Award from ILA in 2019. She is the first Latina honored with this prestigious award which has been received by Warren Bennis, Robert Greenleaf, Peter Drucker, James McGregor Burns, and Margaret Wheatley.
Juana was selected as a Wise Woman Award by the National Center for Women’s Policy Studies and is in the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. In 2009 the Denver Post and the Colorado Women’s Foundation named her the Colorado Unique Woman of the Year. In 2017 she was selected by the National Diversity Council as one of the Most Influential and Powerful Latinos in America. Currently, She serves as the founding president of Lideramos - The National Alliance of Latino Leadership which has as its mission to enhance and expand the number of leadership programs serving Latinos in the US. Her vision is to empower Latinos to be leaders of the 21st Century as they become one in three Americans.
Tania and Peter discuss why they choose "Adelante" Moving Forward
What is the meaning of the word Adelante to them?
They share their hopes for the Latine Community.
Peter Bloch Garcia (him/el)
His values are humility, racial equity, and environmental sustainability. He has spent most of his career in the nonprofit sector where his leadership practice aims to advance racial equity. Most of his nonprofit experience has been in the nexus between philanthropy and BIPOC communities. He was founder, past President, and Executive Director of Latino Community Fund of Washington, and now serves a variety of nonprofits as a consultant, board member, and interim executive roles. 2019 Finalist Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize & Blue Mountain Review
Tania Hino (she/her/ella) A mother of three, she strives to create safe spaces for people of color to be heard.
Her personal values; integrity, love for culture, respect, and enjoyment of the process are transferred to her work, family, and community. While studying for her doctoral degree, she runs a podcast called Parenting Takes a Village, is the founder of the nonprofit Somos Mujeres Latinas, runs storytime at a Seattle library, raises her three children, and takes care of her dog, Idly.
Recipient of the Val Donato Parent Education Award for excellence in teaching and building a community for children, families, and teachers in 2017. Tania sees her community work closely to the way she is a mother. “It's not about raising a child how I want them to be. They are like plants, they will come out as they want to be. I just need to support them."
Tania and Peter speak to Luis Ortega, a young leader and founder of Storytellers for Change and he shares the importance of reminding ourselves from where we come and the power of our own story.
Luis Ortega is a multidisciplinary storyteller, educator, facilitator, and the founder and director of Storytellers for Change. Over the last fourteen years, Luis has worked with youth, educators, and organizations to co-design storytelling strategies, projects, and programs to foster empathy, inclusion, and equity across communities. His work and projects have been featured at the Harvard DACA Seminar, HBO’s “Where Do You Exist?” podcast, the Kauffman Foundation Disruptor Speaker Series, and the ArtPlace America Summit. Most recently, Luis was selected as a W K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Leadership Network Fellow and has curated the 100 Changemakers Project at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center.
Peter and Tania discuss why they are creating this podcast and when they discover or step into their leadership.
Peter Bloch Garcia (him/el)
His values are humility, racial equity, and environmental sustainability. He has spent most of his career in the nonprofit sector where his leadership practice aims to advance racial equity. Most of his nonprofit experience has been in the nexus between philanthropy and BIPOC communities. He was founder, past President, and Executive Director of Latino Community Fund of Washington, and now serves a variety of nonprofits as consultant, board member, and in interim executive roles. 2019 Finalist Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize
& Blue Mountain Review
Tania Hino (her/ella) A mother of three, she strives to create safe spaces for people of color to be heard.
Her personal values; integrity, love for culture, respect, and enjoyment of the process are transferred to her work, family, and community. While studying for her doctoral degree, she runs a podcast called Parenting Takes a Village, is the founder of the nonprofit Somos Mujeres Latinas, runs storytime at a Seattle library, raises her three children, and takes care of her dog, Idly.
Recipient of the Val Donato Parent Education Award for excellence in teaching and building a community for children, families, and teachers in 2017. Tania sees her community work closely to the way she is a mother. “It's not about raising a child how I want them to be. They are like plants, they will come out as they want to be. I just need to support them."
Peter Bloch Garcia values humility, racial equity, and environmental sustainability. He has spent most of his career in the nonprofit sector where his leadership practice aims to advance racial equity. Most of his nonprofit experience has been in the nexus between philanthropy and BIPOC communities. He was founder, past President, and Executive Director of Latino Community Fund of Washington, and now serves a variety of nonprofits as a consultant, board member, and interim executive roles.