PHOENIX, AZ September 28, 2004 — Over 2,000 Latinas are accepted to bless Latina Power at Phoenix Civic Plaza. Adolescence Administration Appointment will bang off two-day celebration-
The Hispanic Women’s Association (HWC) is hosting the 19th Civic Hispanic Women’s Appointment in Phoenix, Ariz. on Oct. 15-16, 2004 at the Phoenix Civic Plaza featuring Mexico’s First Lady Senora Marta Sahagun de Fox.
The two-day appointment is the better acquisition of Latinas in the country and will accommodate administration and able development to over 2,000 participants while adopting money for academy scholarships to account adolescent Latinas.
There is aswell a Adolescence Administration basic to the conference.
โLatinas accept a able articulation in today’s association and we wish our bulletin to be heard,โ says Sonja Mazon-Rubalcava, administrator of this year’s conference. โLatina Powerโ is this year’s affair with an accent on empowerment in demography allegation of your life, says Rubalcava. The appointment will highlight affecting Latinas who will allotment their belief of success, an adviser pavilion to advance articles and services.
There will aswell be a alternation of workshops and presenters on education, banking planning, parenting, aborigine outreach, careers, abstract and more.
Mexico’s First Lady Senora Marta Sahagun de Fox has been arrive to allege at the accumulated bologna on Friday, October 15, the additional day of the conference. During this luncheon, Janet Murguia, controlling administrator and COO of the Civic Council of La Raza will aswell be presented a appropriate acceptance award.
The appointment bliss off with a Adolescence Administration Appointment targeting about 300 breadth academy students.
Letters were broadcast statewide to baddest top schools with an allurement for Latina acceptance to appear the conference. According to Rebeca Ronstadt, adolescence appointment coordinator, โwe accept accustomed an absurd acknowledgment this year and we are searching advanced to accouterment our adolescent Latinas with the accoutrement and assets they charge to apprentice about academy scholarship opportunities, banking planning and career outlook.
Linda Mazon Gutierrez, admiral of the Hispanic Women’s Association is one of the co-founders of the appointment and has apparent it developed into one of the nation’s better Latina gathering.
โWe are captivated that his appointment has accustomed civic exposure, because Latinas reside in about every above city-limits in this country and we are a above contributor to the economy.
We are politicians, professionals, laborers, wives, mothers, daughters, in abbreviate we are CEO’s of our households and above corporations and we apperceive how to get things done.โ This year’s appointment celebrates the huge accomplish we accept fabricated as Latinas. โWe’ve appear a continued way, baby,โ says Mazon Gutierrez โand we still accept a means to go.
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In accession to confined a career development opportunity, the appointment aswell raises money for scholarships to account adolescent Latinas This year, over twenty scholarships will be awarded to acceptance alignment from $1,000 to $3,000 to appear Arizona accompaniment universities. Freshmen who administer for the scholarships accept to accept a 3.0 brand point average. Sophomores, juniors and seniors or appointment acceptance aswell accept to accept a accumulative 3.0 average. This year’s scholarship winners will focus on bloom and sciences and will be accustomed during Friday’s accumulated luncheon.
The appointment will aswell host artistic Latina authors in a annular table altercation alleged Latina Voices in Literature. Other workshops include: banking management, education, political empowerment, business and administration skills, ambition setting, ambitious opportunities, parenting, and time management. There is even a salsa workshop!
The Hispanic Women’s Appointment attracts over 2,000 attendees from about the country. Key sponsors for the appointment include: Allstate, Arvizu Advertising & Promotion, Arizona Department of Bloom Services, APS, General Motors, Maricopa Association Colleges, Qwest, SRP, Accompaniment Farm Insurance Co.
, and Wells Fargo.
A columnist appointment will be captivated on Thursday, Oct. 15 at the Phoenix Civic Plaza at 10:15 a.m. and will affection Linda Mazon Gutierrez, admiral of HWC and Sonja Mazon-Rubalcava, armchair of 2004 Conference.
The Hispanic Women’s Association was founded in 1981 and is a archetypal organization, accustomed as a 501 ยฉ (3) non-profit association apperceive for getting a proactive baton in the development of Hispanic women. HWC empowers women through its charge to the ability by announcement college education, association involvement, able advance and administration development for the advance of Latinas’ cultural superior of life.
For added advice on HWC or to annals for the conference, amuse appointment www.hispanicwomen.org.
July 30th, 2010
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