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Josie Garza
is currently the Executive Director for the National Latino Children’s Institute, the only organization dedicated solely to focusing on issues impacting Latino children. She has over 20 years of experience working with non-profits. Her background is in bilingual education and psychology with an emphasis in cross-cultural counseling and communications.
She has been actively involved with organizations dedicated to empowering and protecting the rights of young people and their families who have been disenfranchised, most of whom are minority (predominantly Latino) and poor, and many of whom end up in the juvenile justice system. Ms. Garza has much experience in the field of leadership and youth development, and has worked with youth, youth workers, and youth organizations to design and implement programs and training models that are culturally appropriate for the field of child and youth development nationally and internationally.
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Bill Sanchez
Bio currently in development
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Kathy Sosa
is a designer and fine artist, who spent decades as a advertising strategist and marketing consultant. Kathy's interior design projects have won recognition by the AIA and have been received repeated local media attention.
Her artistic voice blurs the creative boundaries between fine art and folk art, photography and ornament, as she showcases the faces and stories of the women around her. She is a student of the renowned portrait artist Nelson Shanks and Studio Incamminati. In 2006 she was commissioned by the Texas Conference for Women to create a portrait of keynote speaker Martha Stewart. In 2007-2008 a traveling exhibition of 26 of her "Huipilista" paintings, organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center, debuted at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, and traveled to the Museo Alameda in San Antonio. In Fall 2008 she was commissioned to create the signature image for the Inaugural Rock 'n' Roll San Antonio Marathon.
She is represented by galleries in San Antonio, Charlotte and Santa Fe.
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John Phillip Santos
recently returned to his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, after twenty-one years in New York. He was (and remains) a freelance filmmaker, producer, journalist and writer whose work focuses on issues of media, culture and ethnic identity. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, among numerous other publications. A former executive producer and director of new program development for Thirteen/WNET, Santos also produced over 40 documentaries for CBS and PBS, two of them nominated for Emmy Awards.
In 1997, Santos joined the Ford Foundation as an officer in the Media, Arts and Culture Program, where he handled the Media Projects Fund and worked with new media technologies, especially as they pertain to developing countries.
Santos was the first Mexican-American Rhodes scholar to study at Oxford. He holds degrees in English Literature and Language from Oxford University and in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Notre Dame. He is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. Santos is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for Inter-national Studies at Brown University. Santos' 1999 family memoir, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation (Viking / Penguin) was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2006 it was selected for the "One Book, One City" reading program in San Antonio.
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Miryam Bujanda
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Cynthia Perez
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