Latinitas
Latinitas is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Latina youth through media and technology. We create an empowering online bilingual magazine (www.LatinitasMagazine.org) focused on informing, entertaining, and inspiring young Latinas to grow into healthy, confident, and successful Latinas. To encourage girls to express themselves, we offer an innovative series of workshops, mentor projects, after-school clubs, and camps aimed at promoting media awareness and participation among Hispanic girls. Throughout these programs we offer fun and engaging lessons on media awareness, Latino culture, writing, editing, journalism, art, desktop publishing, film, radio, web design, and photography.
Description:
ABOUT US
We publish LatinitasMagazine.org, the first and premier digital magazine for Hispanic girls and teens. We host media enrichment programs for girls. We focus on empowering Latina youth to express themselves through lessons on writing, graphic art, desktop publishing, web design, photography, filmmaking, and radio production. We connect girls with positive mentors and role models who encourage girls to build their self-esteem, confidence, cultural pride, efficacy and resiliency to at-risk behavior. Latinitas is training the next generation of Latina multimedia-makers through as series of bilingual and bi-cultural after-school programs, workshops, conferences, internships, summer camps and retreats.
WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
Latinitas is a community-based, grass-roots and volunteer-driven organization. We partner with over 50 non-profit groups, schools, libraries, community centers, and churches annually to provide girl empowerment programs for Hispanic girls. We rely on volunteers to lead and participate in each of our committees: editorial, outreach and Alliance for Latinitas. Volunteers are needed to assist with all departments of the organization. Editorial volunteers aid with the production of LatinitasMagazine.org by assisting with writing, photography, graphic art, web design and translation. Outreach volunteers help with serving as guest speakers for youth, becoming an after-school club leader, mentoring girls, organizing girl empowerment events and planning media enrichment lessons. La Alianza Para Latinitas/ Alliance for Latinitas is a service group dedicated to raising community awareness and funds to promote the mission of Latinitas. This auxiliary group promotes girl empowerment by planning fundraising events, conducting public awareness campaigns, recruiting volunteers, and promoting Latinitas programs.
History:
Latinitas was started by a group of students in a Latinos and Media course at the University of Texas at Austin in the spring of 2002. Under the instruction of Professor Federico Subervi, the group developed the concept for a magazine especially for Hispanic girls. Recognizing the incredible need for a publication that focused on the experiences of Latina youth, two students - Laura Donnelly and Alicia Rascon - decided to take action to transform the project into a reality at the end of the course. They started gathering a group of friends and volunteers to form the Latinitas student organization at the University of Texas at Austin. The monthly webzine was launched in January of 2003. After graduation, both continued to develop Latinitas into a publication staffed with volunteer editors, reporters, translators, photographers and advertising consultants. During the summer of 2003, the program expanded to offer quarterly media workshops for Latino youth in the community. Club Latinitas, a weekly after-school newsroom for middle school Latinitas, started in the fall of 2003. During February of 2003, Latinitas launched Teen Latinitas, the teen version of the magazine. Subsequently, the TRIP (Teen Reporter Intern Program) was developed as the magazine's teen advisory board. Since then, the organization has achieved non-profit tax exempt status, hired full-time staff and expanded its programming to several Texas communities.
Contact people:
Address:
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PO Box 973065
El Paso, TX 79997 |
Web Site: http://www.LatinitasMagazine.org
| Last updated on September 10, 2009 |
