Becoming a Wise Latina
This past Saturday I had a great time at the Wise Latina Conference, which was hosted at the International Museum of Art in El Paso. I hadn't had that much fun at a conference in years. Great female power all around me. Professors, business women, writers, poets, artists, health providers, and a plethora of women who seemed to be quite successful in their careers. It was a call to elevate the power of women in the area and an invitation to become a beacon to women everywhere. The conference theme revolved around women empowering women.
We started off with the US anthem and after a few introductions while the cupcakes and delicious cookies were being passed around, we moved on to the opening speaker. A prominent Utep professor from the Anthropology department invited women to help themselves and help each other to increase our power in the world and in the community that still lags behind.
After her beautiful speech and answering a mini focus interview, I decided to mousy on to the vendors and find out more about Wise Latina International. This organization seeks to help women evolve by mentoring and teaching each other to reach high. It doesn't matter what the condition or career of the woman, the point is to support the growth of women in general and allowing the truth of who we are to just flow out into this amazing world because we are powerful beings. So I decided to sign up because I love to network and connect with such happy and empowering ladies of El Paso. I can't wait to get started! Actually, I already did---by attending the conference and connecting with people and organizations I wouldn't have been able to reach before. Yes!
After a few other vendors, artists, and a delicious lunch catered by the Green Ingredient, we were ushered to a different location to listen to our keynote speaker Alisa Valdes. I was blown away by her honesty and her dream of writing about Latinas who are powerful and happy in the United States. Her novels, although popular mainstream books, have yet to touch Hollywood in a way that makes sense for us Latinas, who definitely do not want to be portrayed as maids or cholas. Her speech was full of wisdow and wit, and her energy so engaging that it was hard not to pay attention to all of the details of her life and journalistic career. Her books are also a testament of her commitment to change the sterotypes of Hispanics and Latinas across the US. After she signed my copy of one of her books I realized I had picked a very good story to tell multicultural Latinas. I can't wait to read the whole story and share it with my marketing class!
We started off with the US anthem and after a few introductions while the cupcakes and delicious cookies were being passed around, we moved on to the opening speaker. A prominent Utep professor from the Anthropology department invited women to help themselves and help each other to increase our power in the world and in the community that still lags behind.
After her beautiful speech and answering a mini focus interview, I decided to mousy on to the vendors and find out more about Wise Latina International. This organization seeks to help women evolve by mentoring and teaching each other to reach high. It doesn't matter what the condition or career of the woman, the point is to support the growth of women in general and allowing the truth of who we are to just flow out into this amazing world because we are powerful beings. So I decided to sign up because I love to network and connect with such happy and empowering ladies of El Paso. I can't wait to get started! Actually, I already did---by attending the conference and connecting with people and organizations I wouldn't have been able to reach before. Yes!
After a few other vendors, artists, and a delicious lunch catered by the Green Ingredient, we were ushered to a different location to listen to our keynote speaker Alisa Valdes. I was blown away by her honesty and her dream of writing about Latinas who are powerful and happy in the United States. Her novels, although popular mainstream books, have yet to touch Hollywood in a way that makes sense for us Latinas, who definitely do not want to be portrayed as maids or cholas. Her speech was full of wisdow and wit, and her energy so engaging that it was hard not to pay attention to all of the details of her life and journalistic career. Her books are also a testament of her commitment to change the sterotypes of Hispanics and Latinas across the US. After she signed my copy of one of her books I realized I had picked a very good story to tell multicultural Latinas. I can't wait to read the whole story and share it with my marketing class!
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