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Esmeralda Cantu Castile

Mother of Angelina Resendiz

Esmeralda Cantu Castile

Panel Information

OPENING SESSION - Being Latino in 2025: Voices from a Changing America

9:00 AM

This session is meant to spark the kind of honest, grounded reflections that will frame our upcoming plenary conversations—not with pundits or polished talking points, but with the voices of everyday Latinos. Immigrant parents, students, workers, and community advocates will speak to the realities they face: rising attacks on their rights, deep disparities in health, education, tech access, and economic opportunity. This is where the conversation begins—raw, real, and rooted in the truth of lived experience.