The Latino Majority

In part two of two, host Mauricio Cruz speaks with veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa about the trailblazers she looked up to during her NASA career, how she is motivating the next generation of STEM leaders, and how leaders can learn from challenges and setbacks. 

In our final episode, host Mauricio Cruz speaks with Jorge Casimiro, Nike’s vice president of global community impact and Nike Foundation president; Eva Hughes, CEO and founder of Adira Consulting; Rita Mitjans, ADP’s chief diversity and corporate social responsibility officer; and Laura Marquez, Google's head of Latino community engagement. The four Culture Connectors spoke on authenticidad in leadership, the growing sense of pan-latinidad, and connecting non-Latinos with the Latino community in a genuine way.

Coming soon, a new podcast series from The Alumni Society. Each episode, our host Mauricio Cruz will speak with Latino professionals on their leadership insights, industry expertise, and success stories. Subscribe now!

For Director Ángel Manuel Soto, Blue Beetle is for his younger self.

As a kid growing up in Puerto Rico, Soto didn’t have the opportunity to see an Indiana Jones that looked like him—to see Latinos in heroic spaces of power on the big screen. Through Blue Beetle he set out to change that.

His recent blockbuster not only highlights the truth that the Latino community is no monolith—and that it features everyday moments of superhero strength—it also shows how communities too often seen as ghettos are in fact full of rich, tight-knit relationships that span generations.

Any young Angel Manuel Soto would pay the price of admission to see that story in the theater.

In separate interviews, host Mauricio Cruz speaks with two inspiring, Latino financiers. In the first interview, investor Codie Sanchez shares her mission-driven perspective in finance and how she combats bias as a Latina. The second interview features Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Julian Parra, who emphasizes the importance of current leaders not only mentoring the next generation of financiers but also sharing each others’ stories and supporting one another.