IL Latino News

Maria Nava: Leading From Lived Experience

Nava shares how the barriers of being a first generation immigrant in the U.S., helped shape the work she leads in the service of others.

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Alvaro Obregón: Putting Community First

The Associate State Director, Advocacy & Outreach, with AARP Illinois, discusses digital equity, caregiving resources, and how family shapes his love of serving the community.

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Carlos Fernandez: Challenging Corporate Power

Creating transformative change by building power with working families through strategic community-labor organizing, grassroots leadership development, civic engagement, and training.

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Michelle Bueno Vasquez: Defining Latinidad

Bueno Vasquez discusses how Afro-Latinos experiences are influenced by race, skin tone, in ways distinct from those of other Hispanics, including struggling with their Black identity.

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Carlos Matallana: Curiosity & Joy

After-school programs offer mentoring and positive role models for youth. Besides academic support, after-school programs offer a wide range of

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Dr. Emma Olivera: Find Your Tribe

Latinos are the most significant and fastest-growing group in the U.S., yet their presence in healthcare, particularly as physicians, remains

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Initiative aims to increase and improve long-COVID care for Latinos

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected communities worldwide, disproportionately impacting specific populations. Hispanics, Latinos have shown a higher susceptibility to

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Claude Robinson: Eliminating Barriers

In a society that is becoming increasingly diverse, different communities must come together and find common ground. Black and Latino

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Jose Muñoz: Living Invisibly

The Latino Policy Forum and Illinois Latino News are partnering to create a 2-year long public awareness campaign that will illuminate the most common form of homelessness experienced in the Latinx community, which is through ‘doubling-up’ or when a person temporarily lives with others.