Tania and Peter talk to José about his Leadership

José Calderón is the former President of the Hispanic Federation (HF), the nation’s premier Latino nonprofit membership organization. José manages HF’s overall operations with a primary focus on strategic planning, program development, public policy advocacy and resource development. He is a leading advocate for Hispanic grassroots organizations and pro-Latino legislation locally and nationwide.

José has worked in various capacities for the Federation since 2001, including Program Coordinator, Program Director, Vice President and Senior Vice President. During that time, he has helped develop and launch several of HF’s most important initiatives including its Latino College Success Program, Workforce Development ABLE project, Board Leadership Development Initiative, DREAMers Scholarship Fund, Diabetes Awareness Campaign, Latino Immigration Task Force, among others. He has also spearheaded HF’s civic engagement efforts, helping to register and mobilize hundreds of thousands of voters in key federal and local elections over the last decade.

As the Federation's principal spokesperson, José works to disseminate the organization's public policy positions to the media, public officials, the private sector and the community at large. Through public hearings, weekly newspaper columns and Federation-produced radio and television shows, he also works to educate Latinos about issues and services of critical importance to them and their families.

José currently serves as Co-Chair of the Immigration Committee of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of the leading Latino organizations in the nation. He also serves on the advisory committee for The Aspen Institute’s Roundtable on Community Change. A recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, José is most proud and grateful for the continued support and acknowledgments he receives from HF's network of Latino nonprofits.

José received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Hunter College and a Master of Arts Degree from St. John’s University with a concentration in Latin American studies, Spanish literature and political science. He is married and a proud father of two daughters.

Peter and Tania reflect on episode 1 - 8 of season 3.

They also discuss the traditions for the Latine community of the guests interviewed this season. Which are the traditions that are worth continuing to pass on in the Latine community. The importance of resting and recharging energy to continue to follow our passions. Resting is not being selfish, it is self-love.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all.

Peter y Tania reflexionan sobre el episodio 1 - 8 de la temporada 3.

También discuten las tradiciones de la comunidad latine de los invitados entrevistados esta temporada. Cuáles son las tradiciones que vale la pena seguir pasando en la comunidad latine. La importancia de descansar y recargar energías para seguir siguiendo nuestras pasiones. Descansar no es ser egoísta, es amor propio.

Felices fiestas y próspero año nuevo a todos.

Peter and Tania talk to Michelle about building power and leadership differently.

Michelle Tremillo, Co-Executive Director and one of Texas Organizing Project’s co-founders, is a 4th generation Tejana, born and raised in a low-income neighborhood in San Antonio. She has two decades of community organizing experience, and is responsible for raising a multi-million dollar budget, co-developing TOP’s overall strategy to create and win on our economic and racial justice policy agenda in Texas’ 3 largest metro areas, as well as leading TOP’s voter engagement program--the largest independent grassroots program in Texas--which has mobilized more than 3.2 million Black and Latino voters to the ballot box across the state. Michelle has been recognized numerous times locally and nationally for her leadership in the progressive movement, including: in Mother Jones as one of 8 women leading the resistance in Texas (2017), in Texas Monthly’s 2018 Power Issue, along with Brianna Brown, as one of 31 Texans taking charge, and as one of She The People’s 20 Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020, which was also featured in Elle Magazine.

Peter and Tania talk to Michelle about building power and leadership differently.

Michelle Tremillo, Co-Executive Director and one of Texas Organizing Project’s co-founders, is a 4th generation Tejana, born and raised in a low-income neighborhood in San Antonio. She has two decades of community organizing experience, and is responsible for raising a multi-million dollar budget, co-developing TOP’s overall strategy to create and win on our economic and racial justice policy agenda in Texas’ 3 largest metro areas, as well as leading TOP’s voter engagement program--the largest independent grassroots program in Texas--which has mobilized more than 3.2 million Black and Latino voters to the ballot box across the state. Michelle has been recognized numerous times locally and nationally for her leadership in the progressive movement, including: in Mother Jones as one of 8 women leading the resistance in Texas (2017), in Texas Monthly’s 2018 Power Issue, along with Brianna Brown, as one of 31 Texans taking charge, and as one of She The People’s 20 Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020, which was also featured in Elle Magazine.

Tania and Peter talk to Jaime about her book Youth to Power and other ideas about weaving elder knowledge and youth knowledge.

Jaime Margolin is an internationally recognized leader on climate action. She is co-executive director and a co-founder of Zero Hour, an organization building a movement of youth for climate and environmental justice. She is the author of the book, Youth to Power; Your Voice and How to Use It. She is an inspiration to countless Latine & BIPOC youth and adult leaders.

Peter y Tania hablan con Lupita Torrez sobre el poder que todos tenemos.

Lupita es gerente de aprendizaje temprana con Seattle University y Fundadora de Para los niños y fue Directora ejecutiva por 16 anos en la agencia de para los niños.

Lupita sigue impulsando estrategias para garantizar que todos los niños estén preparados para el jardín de infantes y sus vidas.

Peter and Tania speak to a group of six elder latine leaders about culture, ancestors, passing knowledge. Part 1 of Elder Latine Leaders.

These leaders are from previous adelante leadership podcast episodes. If you wish to learn more about each guest in this group interview please visit their episodes.

Peter and Tania speak to a group of six elder latine leaders about culture, ancestors, passing knowledge. Part 1 of Elder Latine Leaders.

These leaders are from previous adelante leadership podcast episodes. If you wish to learn more about each guest in this group interview please visit their episodes.

Tania and Peter talked with Laura González.

Tania entrevista a su mamá para compartir sus conocimientos y experiencias vividas y el impacto que tuvo su madre en su liderazgo.

Después de reflexionar sobre las pérdidas de muchos ancianos de nuestra comunidad a causa de la pandemia, decidimos centrar la tercera temporada en cómo el liderazgo Latine puede beneficiarse tanto del conocimiento de los mayores como del de los jóvenes.

Creemos que podemos aprender tanto de nuestros mayores Latine como del conocimiento de nuestros jóvenes.

¿Cómo podemos aprender de ambos y fortalecernos juntos?

¿Cómo unimos ambas fuentes de ideas y conocimientos de Liderazgo Latine?

¿Cómo transmitimos el conocimiento de nuestros mayores antes de que se pierda y cómo empoderamos a nuestra juventud?

Tania and Peter talked with Alicia Stephens.

After reflecting about our losses of many elders in our community from the pandemic, we decided to focus season three on how Latine Leadership can benefit from both elders' knowledge and youth’s knowledge.

We believe that we can both learn from our Latine elders and our youth leader’s knowledge.

How can we learn from both and become stronger together?

How do we unite both sources of Latine leadership ideas and knowledge?

How do we pass our elders' knowledge before it is lost and how do we empower our youth?

Peter interviews his mom to share the knowledge and his lived experiences and the impact his mother had in his leadership.

Tania and Peter reflect episode 27 through 31.

Veronica Duran-Sisk was born in Quito, Ecuador and obtained her International Business and Master’s degree in marketing.

After one year of arriving to the USA, she landed a job at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) as a Spanish Interpreter. This work gave her the opportunity to meet many people from different backgrounds and cultures. Through this experience, she learned that Spanish-speaking people not only sought help with the language, but also sought to share their lives with someone who had something in common.

When she moved to Seattle, she had the opportunity to attend the Latina Symposium at NSC. She later become a volunteer in the Latina Symposium, 8 years later she is now the president of Somos Mujeres Latinas. www.smlwa.org

Veronica states "I joined the Symposium team as a collaborator, and today I am the president of SML. I feel so lucky to get to work with this group of women who have changed my life and inspired me to learn more".

Tania and Peter talk to Victoria about the power of Latinx leadership

Victoria Santos is a Spanish-fluent Afro-Caribbean who was born in a rural village in the Dominican Republic. Her work is rooted in a vision of human potential to advance social justice and racial equity. From over thirty years of lived experiences, she shares her knowledge and wisdom in all her work with a deep commitment to our collective liberation. She is the founder and director of Commonweal’s Center for Healing and Liberation and co-Executived Director of the BIPOC Executive Director Coalition.

Our recipes highlight the immense diversity of healthy, native foods in dishes that are accessible yet satisfying. Reclaiming our vitality as a people means embracing a plant-based diet of whole foods. In our view, people can eat responsibly whether they are vegans, vegetarians, flexitarians, pescetarians, or omnivores. In a decolonial framework, there is room for multiple ways of eating, so we don’t believe everyone needs to make the same food choices. While we are committed to reclaiming knowledge about our ancestral foods, we are not calling for a rejection of any food not native to the Americas, nor do we desire to recreate any one diet from a previous era. We understand that all cultures are living and evolving. Decolonize Your Diet does not tout certain so-called “super foods”; instead, it is a whole food system of eating. Our abuelitas (grandmothers) prepared a simple diet that was as flavorful as it was nourishing.

The staples of their diets were beans and tortillas, supplemented with many fruits and vegetables: avocado, corn, tomatoes, chiles, wild greens, squash, herbs, berries, pineapples, papayas, and more. We invite readers from diverse backgrounds to take up our call to bring playfulness and creativity to cooking, to search for healthy alternatives in more than one direction, to resist the acculturation that tells us white bread is food, and to share this message with your communities: La comida es medicina, food is medicine. More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by “traditional” Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases.

Our recipes highlight the immense diversity of healthy, native foods in dishes that are accessible yet satisfying. Reclaiming our vitality as a people means embracing a plant-based diet of whole foods. In our view, people can eat responsibly whether they are vegans, vegetarians, flexitarians, pescetarians, or omnivores. In a decolonial framework, there is room for multiple ways of eating, so we don’t believe everyone needs to make the same food choices. While we are committed to reclaiming knowledge about our ancestral foods, we are not calling for a rejection of any food not native to the Americas, nor do we desire to recreate any one diet from a previous era. We understand that all cultures are living and evolving. Decolonize Your Diet does not tout certain so-called “super foods”; instead, it is a whole food system of eating. Our abuelitas (grandmothers) prepared a simple diet that was as flavorful as it was nourishing.

The staples of their diets were beans and tortillas, supplemented with many fruits and vegetables: avocado, corn, tomatoes, chiles, wild greens, squash, herbs, berries, pineapples, papayas, and more. We invite readers from diverse backgrounds to take up our call to bring playfulness and creativity to cooking, to search for healthy alternatives in more than one direction, to resist the acculturation that tells us white bread is food, and to share this message with your communities: La comida es medicina, food is medicine. More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by “traditional” Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases.

Peter y Tania hablan con Gloria Santiago de usar nuestra cultura como la medicina para descolonizar.

Gloria es una reconocida activista y defensora de los derechos de las mujeres y las comunidades latinas.

En esta entrevista compartirá su experiencia y conocimientos en la lucha por la equidad y la justicia, y cómo podemos unirnos para crear un cambio positivo en nuestras comunidades.

Pete y Tania hablan con Sandra Huber sobre la salud mental y el trauma del imigrante

Sandra trabaja para profundizar las relaciones con agencias comunitarias, escuelas, organizaciones de atención médica y agencias gubernamentales mientras genera confianza, transparencia y un compromiso significativo con nuestros residentes. A través de eventos y conversaciones, identifica problemas emergentes que enfrentan nuestras diversas comunidades y ofrece clases y otras oportunidades para apoyar esas necesidades.

Peter and Tania reflect with Lupita on episodes 21 through 25.

Lupita Torres is a seasoned community organizer and leader. She is the founder of two nonprofit organizations in the Seattle-King County Metro region focused on developing Latine community leadership and advocacy for system change and advancing racial equity. She currently empowers students at Seattle University as an Early Learning Manager. When she was little, she wanted to grow up and be a bank teller to have a lot of money and buy shoes for birds.

Peter and Tania talk to Lonnie about heal trauma strategies.

Lonnie Renteria enjoys caring for patients of all walks of life, as well as building relationships with them. His goal is to help patients live healthy and fulfilling lives. His interests in psychotherapy include working with BIPOC and LGBTQ communities.

When away from his clinic, Lonnie is busy volunteering with agencies serving immigrant families, reading, binging television shows, or listening to his vinyl collection. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and has lived in France, Canada, and Mexico.

He is a lover of art and does what he can to surround himself with beauty. He has a passion for wholistic health and will often talk about yoga. He enjoys cooking and experimenting with making dishes that have international origins.

Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama is known for this work as the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab, and Affiliate Faculty in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas, Austin, and Adjunct Professor & Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University.[3

Dr. Arturo J. Aldama is an associate professor and chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and affiliate faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies.

And, together they are co-editors of the book Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities where they explore how legacies of colonization and capitalist exploitation and oppression have created toxic forms of masculinity that continue to suffocate our existence as Latinxs. The book intends to decolonize masculinities today to grow a stronger, resilient, and more compassionate new generation of Latinxs.

Ramona Beltrán, MSW, PhD is a mixed-race Xicana of Yaqui and Mexica descent and dancer/activist/scholar. As an Associate Professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, her scholarship focuses on interrupting legacies of historical trauma that affect Indigenous and Latinx communities with a commitment to addressing issues facing women, youth, LGBTQ and Two Spirit communities. She is particularly interested in disrupting the problem-focused approach to understanding Indigenous and Latinx health and well-being that is common in mainstream research. She does this by centering cultural protective factors, strengths and resiliencies, art, and storytelling in investigating and collaborating with Indigenous and Latinx communities.