Topic by Category: Country of Origin

Dr. Silvia Martinez, assistant professor at Howard University. Silvia has focused her professional work on effective service delivery to bilinguals in the health and education arenas.

Dr. Ana Nogales, born in Argentina, is a clinical psychologist and founder of Nogales Psychological Counseling, Inc., and Clinical Director of the nonprofit organization, Casa de la Familia. She lives and works in Southern California.

Maria de Lourdes Sobrino is Founder and CEO of Lulu’s Dessert® Corporation. Lulu was born and raised in Mexico City, but now resides in Southern California.

Josephine F. Garza is the Executive Director for the National Latino Children’s Institute (NLCI), the only organization dedicated solely to focusing on issues impacting Latino children and to building healthy communities for Latino children and their families. She is Mexican-American and from Texas.

Award-winning author and professor Norma Elia Cantú is a Chicana postmodernist writer and a professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), and Founder & President of Educational Achievement Services, Inc. is an Army Veteran, Author, Motivational Speaker, and Educator. She is of Mexican descent and grew up in the
Texas-Mexico border region.

Laura Diaz Brown, better known to her fans as Chef Lala, is a world class chef, author, food consultant, and business woman. She is Mexican-American and lives in the LA area.

Jamie Martinez Wood, a Mexican-American native of Orange County, California, is an inspirational speaker and empowerment specialist. She teaches workshops, leads retreats, and gives performances on personal power, earth spirituality, seasonal living, and ritual ceremony.

Arisa Batista Cunningham, a native of the Republic of Panama, is Vice President, Global Diversity, for the Johnson & Johnson Comprehensive Care and Surgical Care Groups.

Elena Diaz Bjorkquist is a Mexican American writer, historian, and artist from Tucson. Elena’s two books of short stories, Suffer Smoke and Water from the Moon, are about the people in Morenci, Arizona where she was born.