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Living baldly (or boldly) with Michelle Faraco
July 9, 2021AUSTIN, Tx.—After spending the majority of her life trying to fit in with society’s beauty standards and perception of “normalcy,” Michelle Faraco decided it was…
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Sherry Eklund is Teen Strong
July 2, 2021Sherry Eklund spent the past 15 years of her life taking pictures of airplanes. With her husband in the air as the pilot and her…
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Laura I. Gomez: The CEO Who Defied All Odds
October 23, 2020MCALLEN, Tx.—Two years ago, a video of a man threatening two Spanish-speaking women went viral on the internet. I was 14-years-old, sitting in shock, as…
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Q&A with StartUp Chica’s Keynote Speaker: Veronica Garza
October 5, 2020AUSTIN, Tx.—Do you have a chica at home who has an entrepreneurial spirit? Latinitas invites girls ages 9 through 18 to its annual StartUp Chica…
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Exploring the Flaws in America’s “Immigration Nation”
September 29, 2020AUSTIN, Tx—At this year’s Texas Tribune Festival, investigative reporter Jean Guerrero and law professor Cristina Rodríguez discussed the current and controversial immigration policies of the…
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The Texicana Mamas Create a Roadmap for Latinas
September 18, 2020AUSTIN, Tx.—You can’t have a Zoom call without a few technical difficulties, right? Stephanie Urbina Jones and Patricia Vonne texted the meeting link to their…
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February Mariposas of The Month
March 8, 2020AUSTIN, Texas—Less than a month away from Spring and some bright mariposas are already blooming in Club Latinitas. This past month, the chicas continued to…
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The Wonder Woman of the Ocean
July 31, 2019The number of women in STEM is around 24 percent. If you peel back the numbers, Latinas represent only 3 percent– making them as elusive…
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Why these Code Chicas want you to join the next cohort
June 20, 2019The Latinitas team is brimming with hope and excitement now that its latest cohort of girls aged 14 to 19 is fully immersed in the…