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2024 Gala Honorees & Speakers
Gala Honorees
Edward James Olmos
American actor and social activist
Catherine Cortez Masto
U.S. Senator for Nevada
Alex Padilla
U.S.Senator for California
Nanette Diaz Barragán
U.S. House of Representatives, California’s 44th Congressional district
Jesús G. "Chuy" García
U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois' 4th District
Secretary Xavier Becerra
U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
Xochitl Torres Small
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Alejandra Y. Castillo
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development
Mario Diaz
Deputy Under Secretary of the Army (DUSA)
Soledad O’Brien
Host
Legislative Conference Speakers & Panelists
Domingo Garcia
LULAC National President
Veronica Escobar
TX, 16th District
Henry Cuellar
TX, 28th District
Secretary Gina Raimondo
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Secretary Deb Haaland
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Alan Davidson
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator
Bernie Sanders
United States Senator from Vermont
Anna M. Gomez
FCC Commissioner
Tom Castro
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of El Dorado Capital
Esteban Moctezuma Barragán
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States of America
Juan Proaño
Chief Executive Officer, LULAC
Michael J. Frias
CEO, Catalist
Rebecca Pringle
President of the National Education Association
Estuardo Rodríguez
President & CEO of Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino
Lillian Rodriguez Lopez
Government Relations, Diversity & Equity, Stakeholder Management
Rafael Agustin
Award Winning Writer, Author and National Film Preservation Board Member
Anya McMurray
President & COO, Welcome.US.
Brett Matulis
Communities Program Director, ecoAmerica
María José Espinosa Carrillo
Executive Director, Center for Democracy In The Americas
Phil Radford
Chief Strategy Officer, Sierra Club
Dan Restrepo
Strategic Advisor, Dinámica Americas
Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian
Director of the Department of Social Inclusion, the Organization of American States (OAS)
Pedro Rojas
White House National News Correspondent, Televisa-Univision.
Dr. Elena V. Rios
President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association
Lupita Infante
Singer, Songwriter
Leslie Proll
Senior Director of Voting Rights Program, at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Marc Sandalow
Senior Faculty Member, University of California’s Washington Program
Edwin Canizalez
Program Manager, Policy and Legislation, LULAC
Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable
Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the NIH
Dr. Ray Serrano
Director of Research and Policy, LULAC
Dr. Yanira Cruz
President and CEO of the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA)
Tyler Sterling
NAACP National Mobilization Director
Mark Colon
Director of Public Engagement for NTIA
Jeffrey Prieto
EPA General Counsel