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Domingo Garcia
LULAC National President
Raúl Torrez
Attorney General of New Mexico
Mayor Tim Keller
Mayor of Albuquerque New Mexico,
U.S. Rep Veronica Escobar
TX, 16th District
Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma Barragán
ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States of America
Dolores Huerta
President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and Community Organizer
Gilbert Cisneros
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness of the United States
Mario Diaz
Deputy Under Secretary of the Army (DUSA)
Roman Palomares
LULAC National Chief of Staff
Rafaela Schwan
LULAC Chief Operating Officer
Moderators & Panelists
Xochitl Oseguera
Vice President of MomsRising and its Spanish-language arm, MamásConPoder
Umailla Fatima
Health Policy Analyst, Unidos US
Rep. Susan Valdes
FL State Representative & Former Hillsborough School Board
Dr. Stephanie Castillo
STEM Advocacy Institute Resident Scientist/Phuture Doctors Founder
Alexander Uballez
United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico
Montserrat Garibay
Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director for the Office of English Language Acquisition and Senior Advisor for Labor Relations, Office of Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Education
Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak
Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Juan Rangel
Federal Lobbyist, National Education Association
Dr. Regina Griego
Engineer (retired), coach, author, and speaker
Melissa Castillo
Senior Advisor Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), U.S. Department of Education
Bethzaida “Betsy” Sotomayor
Volusia County School District, ESOL Department, AFT National ELL Trainer
Dr. Carina Black
Northern Nevada International Center
John M. Garcia
District Director U.S. Small Business Administration New Mexico District Office
Francisco Sanchez
Associate Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Izmira Santiago-Mikel
Managing Director-Latin Recording Academy
Emmanuel Caduillo
Jessica Mejía
Senior Advisor for Community Engagement at the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Fernando Martinez
Sr. Vice President of Network Success National Minority Supplier Development Council
Youth Speakers
Nephtalí De León
Poet Laureate, San Antonio, TX
Yocelyn Riojas
Design Manager for NextGen America
Ruben Barrales
Senior Vice President, External Engagement Diverse Segments, Representation and Inclusion Wells Fargo & Company
Laura Gomez
Tech Leader:data, diversity and AI/Latinx founder of several tech projects
Tommy Calvert
Bexar County Commissioner
Melanie Stansbury
United States Representative-New Mexico
Claudia Rodas
Tobacco Free Kids
Ysidra Tellez
Executive Director-Breaking the Silence New Mexico
Antony Graf
Headmaster of Believe Martial Arts, multiple time US National Taekwondo Team Member
Larry Sunderland
US Men’s National Soccer Team U17 Technical Director and FC Dallas Academy Director
Dr. Mara López
Center for Broadening Participation in STEM ASU
Edwin Canizalez
Policy and Legislation Program Manager
Izabella Vasquez
Mateo Pierce-Mosquera
Ilse America Rojo
Alex Wagner
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), Washington, D.C.
Dr. Mara Queiroz-Vaughn
LULAC Council President, USCIS Ambassador, UNT Professor
Dr. Kristin Austin
VP of I.D.E.As. (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access) for Rewriting the Code (RTC).
FTI Speakers
Jeff Rosenblum
Chief Human Capital Officer, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Bill Valdez
U.S. Department of Energy (Retired)
Dr. Woodrow Whitlow
Associate Administrator for Mission Support at NASA (Retired)
Zina B. Sutch
Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Civil Rights Small Business Administration
Dr. Jimmy Ortiz
Manager, International Postal Relations United States Postal Service
Ricardo Aguilar
CFO Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Dr. Victoria Dixon
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Little Joe and the Familia
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