Latina Golfers Association
One Woman’s Quest To Level The Playing Field
Sylvia Mendoza is an award-winning journalist recognized as one of "50 Voices of the Future in Journalism" and "1 of 25 Influential Latina Leaders" invited to a United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women" forum. She is the author of The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength and Success and Sonia Sotomayor: A Biography. Her latest essay appears in the academic anthology, Label Me Latina/o.
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One Woman’s Quest To Level The Playing Field
St. Mary’s University School of Law’s Study Abroad Program
A college education is not a requirement for a presidential candidate. Yet every U.S. President after Harry S. Truman has earned a degree. The following list shows where our presidents earned undergraduate degrees (** indicates no college degree). •
Eight U.S. Presidents have earned degrees from Harvard University – the highest turnout rate than any other university or college.
From its inception, CLF has grown to provide more than one million dollars in scholarship assistance to California’s 600-plus Latina leaders most of whom were the first in their families to attend college.
President/CEO Of California Council On Economic Education
Hispanic Arts Council Of St. Louis
“Engage with your favorite subject. Experience Ivy League Life and the vibrancy of New York.” The teaser slogan for Columbia University’s summer programs for high school students is enticing. What could be better for a student who loves learning than time on a prestigious campus in the heart of New York, diving deeper in learning about a subject that intrigues them?
The first Latina astronaut was Ellen Ochoa, a Stanford graduate and inventor for NASA. Joaquin and Julian Castro, brothers from San Antonio, served as U.S. Representative and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, respectively. Sonia Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. Gloria and Emilio Estefan from the famed Miami Sound Machine have sold 100 million records and now own their own recording studio. She received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contributions to American music.
Carlos Bravo is one of those soft-spoken souls whose words take on more depth in their storytelling capacity. He appreciates words, languages, literature. As a poet, each word weighs heavy on interpretation and connectivity, emotion and perspective. The poems he’s written freezeframe highlights and lowlights of individuals and society, observations and desires for humankind, emotional and heartfelt snapshots of life in action. The title of his compilation, “AMBROSÍA: A MANOS LLENAS,” gives thanks to the nectar of the gods—and acknowledges that if we accept life’s gifts with open hands, our lives will be filled with abundance.
Landing her dream job as a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Los Angeles, Gabriela Bernaldino came full circle. In ten years, she’d come home from UC San Diego with degrees in hand, a career she is passionate about and gratitude for a speaker who came into her high school chemistry honors class, changing the course of her life.
