Colombian immigrant Angela Guzman’s eyes lit up at a job fair as she approached tech giant Apple’s booth to learn about internship opportunities at the company. She hit the ground running as an intern in 2008, and was soon hired to help draft nearly 500 of these 🎉🎄💍🎃🌟🍆🍊🍎…
Joanna Bonilla and her siblings lost their father in 2017 to internal bleeding from liver disease that went untreated. They didn’t get to say goodbye to their immigrant father who passed away in a hospital alone while he was in U.S. custody. Joanna can’t get her dad back,…
Southern state governments may have unleashed a war on women’s rights through a series of anti-abortion bills this session, at least this Latina lawmaker in Dallas, Texas, isn’t keeping her arms crossed. Democratic House Representative Victoria Neave wrote the Lavinia Masters Act to tackle the rape kit backlog…
Olga Custodio didn’t intend to become a Latina trailblazer. But she is! Olga is the first Latina U.S. Air Force pilot who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. After 24 years of service in the Airforce, Olga embarked on a 20-year-long career as a commercial pilot for American Airlines.…
When Barack Obama was elected U.S. president in 2008, he inspired an entire generation of young people to dream limitlessly. Now, Gina Rodriguez, star of The CW’s Jane the Virgin, is planting the seed for a future Latina POTUS, as she defines a Disney character that a new…