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Griselda Gonzalez of CG Moving on moving people, not just boxes, and leading California's moving association.
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Personal Branding From the Roots Up, Part 2: Messaging Sin Vergüenza
SVL Executive Cultura Ambassador Nancy Marmolejo on answering "What do you do?" in your own voice, rooted in your values and strengths.
If You Can See It, You Can Be It: Arnaldo Lopez on Going Back to the Basics
Arnaldo Lopez on going back to the basics in cybersecurity, and why seeing a Latino executive changes what students believe is possible.
Listen First, Then Build | Reese Alvernaz Collegiate Cultura Ambassador
Santa Clara engineering student Reese Alvernaz founded Harvesting Justice to amplify farmworker voices. Meet SVL’s newest Collegiate Cultura Ambassador.
One Breath, One Step: Lilian Alfaro Cavlan on Guiding Our Students and Ourselves
Lilian Alfaro Cavlan, author of Prevail, on guiding students and parents through school, and the power of one breath, one step.
Eddie Garcia on the History San Jose Left Out: "We Belong"
Eddie Garcia, author of Mexican Heritage Plaza, on exposure, resilience, and San Jose's Mexican history. Cafecito with Silicon Valley Latino.
Mary Mora Started With One Question: "What If We Organize?"
Mary Mora, founder of Unidas Somos Más Fuertes, on organizing, hope, and mentorship. Episode 2 of Cafecito with Emmy-nominated Silicon Valley Latino.
Recognition Matters: The City of Sunnyvale Proclaims Hispanic Heritage Month
Sunnyvale proclaimed Hispanic Heritage Month and invited SVL CEO Alex Ontiveros to speak. His message: recognition matters, and so do our stories.
Personal Branding From the Roots Up, Part 1: Start With Your Values
SVL Executive Cultura Ambassador Nancy Marmolejo shows how your core values, from familia to comunidad, become the foundation of your personal brand.
From Immigrant Kid to CEO: Alex Ontiveros' Story
Two teachers wrote letters about a young man Alex Ontiveros didn't yet recognize. At a BILL fireside chat, the SVL founder shares how he became him.
Dr. Antonio Lopez Is Still Writing East Palo Alto's Story, One Poem at a Time
Dr. Antonio Lopez, San Mateo County Poet Laureate, on poetry, power, and giving back. The first Cafecito with Emmy-nominated Silicon Valley Latino.
The Home We Carry, The Home We Create
Executive Cultura Ambassador Jazmin Diaz finds home in the smells of Degollado, Jalisco, and in the traditions she passes on to her four children.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
The Tech Museum and the Children's Discovery Museum Stand on the Ashes of La Colonia
Before the Tech Museum and the Children's Discovery Museum, there was La Colonia. Eddie García documents how San José's urban renewal policies demolished a thriving Mexican neighborhood. Part 6 of Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
From Activism to Ancestral Memory: Why I Wrote Flight of the Hummingbird
A new volume of Raíces begins. Volume 1 gave our history a place. Volume 2 gives it a voice. Salomón Quintero, UC Berkeley Chicano movement veteran and 45-year attorney, on the questions that led him from the picket line to writing Flight of the Hummingbird.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
The Dream: Four Decades of Fighting for a Space to Call Our Own
As early as 1952, San José's Mexican community was fighting for a cultural center. The city said no. Four decades of roadblocks and demolished plans. Eddie García documents the dream that refused to die. Part 7 of Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
Show Me the Money: How the Mexican Heritage Plaza Got Funded Against All Odds
$30,000 from a community appeal. Less than 3% of what was needed. Eddie García documents how community members with persistence, tenacity, and an unshakeable belief took the dream all the way to Congress. Part 9 of Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
¡Viva El Mariachi! How a Festival in a Cramped Office Became the Dream’s First Victory
Five people. One office. 1988. That is where the Mexican Heritage Plaza began. Eddie García documents how the Mexican Heritage Corporation turned four decades of rejection into a $153,000 mariachi festival victory. Part 8 of Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
In a Word — Hope: The Mexican Heritage Plaza and the Legacy That Refuses to Be Renamed
“This cultural center will offer, in a word — hope." Twelve chapters of forgotten San José history later, Eddie García closes the Raíces series with the legacy that refuses to be renamed, and a 94-year-old Blanca Alvarado having the last word.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
24,342 Acres. By 1865 His Family Had 2,200. The Difference Was the Law.
Eddie García tells the story of Antonio Chaboya, San José's largest private landowner, and the 1851 law that stripped 90% of his land from him and his fellow Californio ranchers.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
New Almaden Mines: How Mexican Labor Built Silicon Valley and Fought Back
Eddie García takes us underground into the New Almaden Mines, where Mexican miners on Cinnabar Hill sparked what may be the earliest ethnic Mexican-organized labor movement in U.S. history.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
The Founding of El Pueblo de San José: A 22-Day Journey Into History
Eddie García reconstructs the 22-day journey that 66 Mexican settlers took from San Francisco to found El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe in 1777.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
The Mexicans: How San José's Founders Were Written Out of Their Own City's History
Historian Eddie García examines how San José's Mexican founders were systematically erased from the city's own historical record and who finally told the truth.
Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative
Raíces | Vol. 1, Part 1 — The Prologue
Eddie García traces Mexican Heritage Plaza's story from San José's founding in 1777 to a cultural landmark that almost never got built.