NYU Latinx Alumni Community & VECINOS offered Breathe.Discover.Restore: Advantages of Latinx Affinity Networks to Advance Your Profession livestreamed on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community at howlround.television on Tuesday 13 June 2023 at 3 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 6 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

NYU Latinx Alumni Community & VECINOS hosted an interactive roundtable with Latine leaders from impactful communities, non-profits, worker useful resource teams, and affinity networks.

Latinx affinity networks are like a breath of contemporary air, providing an area to discover your pursuits and restore your power. They’ll additionally aid you advance your profession by offering entry to assets, assist, and alternatives.

This group of influential organizers talked concerning the foundations of their collectives and the importance of constructing areas the place our most real selves may be seen, celebrated, and superior, even and particularly if they don’t exist already.

Collectively, we realized about present assets accessible to Latinx communities in varied industries, together with enterprise, leisure, legislation, and sports activities, to have a good time their collective impression and discover deeper avenues of value-aligned networking.

On the finish of the session, you’ve entry to broader networks and communities, so you may:

• Community with different professionals in your discipline
• Achieve entry to mentors and sponsors
• Find out about profession alternatives
• Develop your skilled expertise
• Advocate for your self and your group
• Really feel a way of belonging and group

Panelists

Christiamilda Correa, President of NYU Latinx Alumni Community & LiberArte

Jacqueline Flores, Producer, Latinx Theatre Commons

Kennedy Medina, Founding Member, VECINOS

Alana Meraz, Founding father of Latinx In Sports activities

Patricia Diaz-Rodriguez, New York Area President, Hispanic Nationwide Bar Affiliation

Amanda Sabater, Moderator & Board Member of NYU Latinx Alumni Community

Moderator

Josephine “Amanda” Sabater is a multidisciplinary storyteller, group organizer, and inventive downside solver. From 2012 – 2022, she owned and operated a video manufacturing firm collaborating with Condé Nast, Teen Vogue, AT&T, and extra. Her essays have appeared in Elite Each day, Catapult, Remezcla, and Remembering Water: A Modern Anthology of Inventive Nonfiction by Storytellers of Coloration.

As a fats particular person and mixed-race Latina, Amanda passionately advocates for intersectional physique liberation. In the present day, she rigorously curates immersive therapeutic experiences for her communities via Energy Plus Wellness, the NYU Latinx Alumni Community, and extra. These occasions deliberately disrupt food regimen tradition, decenter weight from wellness, and domesticate fats pleasure.

Her mission is to empower marginalized of us to take up area and to witness them lovingly after they do. She loves uplifting Latine voices and holding sacred area for the ancestral knowledge of our complicated lineages. Her occasions are a hopeful invitation to collaboratively dream up new, wild, huge, sideways, tiny, honest, diagonal, unimaginable programs of being and holding each other in compassion.

In 2023, Amanda created Breathe.Discover.Restore.: a group care initiative via the NYU Latinx Alumni Community. This sequence deepens the cultural conversations round wellness in Latinx/e communities by partnering with famend subject material specialists to supply significant dialogues and restorative therapeutic instruments.

To remain present on Amanda’s occasions, writing, and journey, please go to www.josephineamanda.com or discover her on IG: @jamanda27

Panelist Bios

Christiamilda Correa is an award-winning and seasoned group chief, occasion marketer {and professional} entertainer who’s invested in bettering racial fairness, entry, social and financial mobility for all. Her tenure because the inaugural President of NYU Latinx Alumni Community, has culminated within the group receiving the celebrated NYU Alumni Affiliation Innovation of the 12 months Award. Ms. Correa is the Director of Improvement at Reel Works (coaching the following technology of numerous movie and television professionals), President and Chair of Liber Arte (a U.S. non revenue with a mission to construct racial, social and local weather justice worldwide), Jr. Board Member of Teatro SEA (premiere bilingual arts-in-education and latine youngsters’s theatre in the US), and Founding father of The Motion Theatre Firm. She has carried out at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s World Tradition Competition: Journeys. Ms. Correa is a first-generation Boricua and graduate of NYU Tisch Faculty of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Drama. Be taught extra at www.christiamilda.com and IG: ms_somebody

Kennedy Medina is the Program Planning & Content material Technique Director for Cartoon Community and Boomerang. A Manhattan School graduate, Kennedy has 20 years of profitable expertise within the media & leisure enterprise working with such esteemed firms as Blair Tv and Paramount International (CBS Tv Distribution and the Nickelodeon Children & Household Group). Kennedy is an skilled at understanding how children symbolize an vital demographic within the market, for teenagers are trendsetters with appreciable buying energy, affect their dad and mom’ shopping for choices, and are the grownup customers of the longer term. This expertise permits Kennedy to construct focused programming catering to the ever-evolving style of youngsters (ages 2-17) throughout linear and non-linear platforms. With a powerful perception in giving again to the group, Kennedy has helped create an alliance known as VECINOS, comprised of over 50 Company Latinx Worker & Enterprise Sources Teams within the NY/NJ metro space. The purpose is to create a stronger connection between the company world and the native Latinx communities, whereas sharing finest practices, collaborating on initiatives, networking, and furthering skilled growth.

Jacqueline Flores (she/her/ella) is a producer, theatremaker, and humanities advocate. She is at the moment the Producer for the Latinx Theatre Commons and serves on the Nationwide Steering Committee for the Latinx Theater Initiative. Jacqueline spent two years at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Firm, the place she produced the theatre’s particular occasions and led the Firm Pool Fund, an inner initiative that gives grants to its firm of artists. She has additionally labored at The Public Theater, of their Cellular Unit and Public Discussion board packages, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Competition, Ballet Austin, and Individuals for the Arts. Jacqueline was chosen as a member of Theatre Producers of Coloration’s inaugural cohort and is a two-time recipient of the Nationwide New Play Community’s Producer in Residence grant. She is captivated with theatre and the methods through which efficiency can be utilized as a method for social change. Jacqueline is a proud Texan and first-generation American, born to oldsters who emigrated from Honduras and Mexico. She holds a BA in Theater Arts from St. Edward’s College.

Alana Meraz: An Arizona native, Alana’s curiosity in sports activities originated watching Sunday soccer matches together with her household and attending video games to assist their residence baseball group, The Arizona Diamondbacks. Her love of sports activities carried over to her faculty training, the place she graduated from Arizona State College with a B.A. in Sports activities Enterprise, a minor in Occasion Administration and a certificates in Worldwide Enterprise. She interned at Phoenix Rising FC throughout their inaugural season as a group relations intern, was a sport day presentation intern with Solar Satan Athletics and a sport day operations and road group member for the AZ Diamondbacks. Upon graduating from ASU, she moved throughout the pond to attend Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) in Barcelona, Spain to pursue a grasp’s diploma in Sports activities Administration and Legislation. Alana is a large proponent of “If you happen to can see them, you may be them.” And that is within the core of what Latinx In Sports activities is all about. Based in October of 2020, Latinx In Sports activities is a rising group of present and future sports activities professionals whose purpose is to additional advance Latinx illustration and affect within the sports activities trade past Hispanic Heritage Month. Its mission is amplifying voices and rising Latinx presence via mentorship, natural connection and love for the tradition. Alana is assured that the Latinx in Sports activities group will empower its members and assist pave the best way for future generations. In the present day, Latinx in Sports activities has a social media following of over 2,000 on Twitter and LinkedIn, and has a database of over 600 members that vary from trade veterans to college-aged members and trade hopefuls.

Patricia Diaz-Rodriguez is a Senior Director with Ankura’s New York Information & Expertise group. As a licensed lawyer in New York State, she brings 10 plus years of expertise in eDiscovery, complicated litigation, and different cyber-related issues. Patricia has a singular expertise in crafting revolutionary authorized options for complicated issues that target the usage of expertise. Patricia is skilled in curating numerous groups of authorized specialists to not solely assist the wants of her purchasers however to additionally create an atmosphere that fosters concepts, encourages dialog, and elevates the collective. All through her skilled profession, each out and in of the legislation, Patricia has zealously fought for initiatives that promoted and incentivized range. As an undergrad at The Ohio State College, Patricia seen the shortage of presence with the Latin group and determined to embark on chartering the primary ever Latina sorority at Ohio State, which caught the attention of a number of native papers. Patricia has written quite a few articles printed by the American Bar Affiliation regrading range within the legislation and minority recruiting. She continues to create content material aimed toward elevating consciousness and highlighting the disparities throughout the legislation and minority communities. She is a councilmember of the Digital Discovery Reference Mannequin- International Advisory Council. Patricia is at the moment the New York Area President of the Hispanic Nationwide Bar Affiliation. Patricia attended Baylor College Legislation Faculty and acquired a Grasp of Legislation in eDiscovery with a deal with Litigation Administration and eDiscovery. As well as, Patricia lately accomplished the Range and Inclusion program at Cornell College. Patricia can be a group member in Ankura’s lately created Brooklyn Cyber Heart, which focuses on offering cybersecurity coaching and alternatives to underrepresented communities. Beforehand, she was a working towards lawyer at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett for six years out of their New York workplace. She is a spouse and mom of three.