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During months like Black History Month, and Women’s History Month, we focus our attention on leaders and change-makers in our various communities. Of course, I believe this should be a year-long endeavor, but that’s a conversation for a separate article. We look at the amazing things they have done, and marvel at the impact they’ve …

The first women we learn from are usually our mothers. Not always, but often the first role models for how we want to be as women in the world is our mother and/or grandmothers. The women around us are those from whom we learn what it means to BE a woman – and how to …

Happy New Year! One of the things that I love about the turn of the new year is the excitement, hope and possibility that comes with it. Although we are growing and changing all the time, the transition from one year to the next often is a time for self-reflection, and is a time when …

The Anthony Hopkins character in the movie The Edge has a famous quote, “What one man can do, another man can do.” When he said this to another character in the film, he was referring to the fact that once we know something is possible, then we can replicate it. I’ve heard that for a …

Power is the capacity to influence the way people think, feel, and act. We use that influence all day, every day, and we each have WAY more power than we give ourselves credit for. We have influence over ourselves – our own actions, thoughts, feelings.  We have influence over others – our work colleagues, people …

We as parents, grandparents, caregivers, aunts, godmothers, etc. of our children are responsible for all sorts of education for our kids. We also know that children pay attention perhaps more closely to what we do than what we say. Perhaps precisely because of this, it is up to us to have conversations with the youth …

The statistics that Aurelia Flores cites in Powerful Latinas regarding Latinas/os in the American work force are striking indeed. Our society is increasingly complex, and—because of our increasing numbers in the general population—it’s inevitable that Latinas/os will be working longer work weeks with the passage of years, as they represent more and more of the …