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In celebration of Pride month, we invite you to listen to the second installment of our series lifting the voices of LGBTQ Latin@ leaders. In this conversation, our Senior Manager of Community & Capacity Building, Jose Juan Lara Jr. speaks with Texas Association Against Sexual Assault’s Program Director and Campus Sexual […]
Meet Pamela Mercado Michelli, Project Coordinator Where are you from? I am originally from Isabela, Puerto Rico and have been living in Minnesota for the last 6 years. Where do you feel most at home? I feel most at home when I am with my daughter wherever that is but, specifically […]
Meet Pedro A. Reyna, Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator Where are you from? Brownsville, TX Where do you feel most at home? I am never more at home than when I can sit and hug those close to me and my dogs. What inspires you, professionally and personally? I would say […]
We are proud to take part in the creation of this toolkit which provides recommendations to advance the economic justice of survivors. This toolkit was created by the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)’s Economic Justice and Domestic Violence Advisory Council, which includes Esperanza United, the Asian Pacific Institute on […]
Meet Cynthia J. Zapata, Project Manager (they/them/she) Where are you from? I was raised in Minnesota in the south metro and have lived in the Twin Cities for the last 6 years. Where do you feel most at home? I feel most at home by a river or a lake. I […]
Meet Damary Rodriguez, Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator Where are you from? I’m originally from New York (Brooklyn) but live in Pennsylvania now. Where do you feel most at home? By the water whether it’s a beach, lake, pool, or river! What inspires you, professionally and personally? Helping survivors heal and […]
We’re launching a new podcast series highlighting Latin@ Research leaders and community-centered practices. For this first episode in the series, we’ll get to know Dr. Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz who published the first scholarly book offering a groundbreaking examination of Intimate Partner Violence in the lives of transgender people entitled, Transgressed: Intimate Partner […]
Join us for a conversation on why the term Afro Latina was created and what it’s responding to. We explore how this term has developed and what the current narrative looks like for those who center their Blackness.
As we celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day this March, Latin@s across the continent are mobilizing to say NO MÁS! NO MORE week is March 7-13 and this year’s theme is global solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Esperanza United is bringing the US perspective with our nationwide prevention and […]
Join us March 10 for a webinar on the lived realities and resilience of the AfroLatina diaspora in the face of violence and current world challenges. Guest speaker Yvette Modestin will share on how to support Black and AfroLatina survivors encountering violence and systemic racism as well as effective responses used […]