Latinas are the fastest growing female population in the U.S. today, which means they have the potential to influence and contribute to the success of the community and our country as a whole.

Dr. Angelica Perez-Litwin had worked for many years with professional women in her practice as a clinical psychologist, when she found a common ground to the particular frustrations that Latina professional woman have while trying to advance in their careers. With this in mind, she decided to create a network of Latina professionals and entrepreneurs to leverage their global knowledge offering support and mentorship to each other.

“Latinas Think Big” is a global community designed to help and support careers and venture projects of this community. It is a big group of talented women who meet for events, network throughout a social network and online platforms. Their mission is to build a global society of prosperous women achieving economic success and personal freedom while creating a social impact.

Dr. Perez-Litwin is back to the show today to talk with us about all the improvements for the community. This year, LTB is adding more services to the conferences, online magazine and existing social network group. The group is also adding a new platform with a membership base closed online platform to integrate further the community together with local smaller networks that meet periodically in person to support and enrich their careers.

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Cecilia Violeta Lopez is an opera singer of Mexican decent, original from Idaho. She has been a long time friend of the show, as we had followed her career since short after her graduation from Las Vegas University and her amazing time performing with “Opera San Jose”.

After her residence with the opera San Jose program, she was elected to be part of the opera program with the Martina Arroyo Foundation in New York, New York. Now she has been traveling the country, singing in many opera theaters some of the most famous roles for sopranos.

The New York Times had reviewed her performances as “beautifully sung by the soprano Cecilia Violetta López, whose bright, expressive voice made a strong impression in several works, including de Falla’s ‘El Retablo de Maese Pedro.’” (Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times, 2015/08/11).

Opera News Magazine just named Lopez as one of the 25 young rising stars in the world of Opera (OperaNews, Oct 2015, Vol80).

Lopez career is definitely in the rise and her great experience so far shows how versatile and powerful this soprano can be. We hope you enjoyed our show today, remember to leave you comments, to subscribe to our Facebook or twitter accounts and to our podcast shows. Come back soon and tell us about what you want to hear next.

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Today we are talking with Arturo Aleman. He is a Californian born veteran,  with Mexican roots, alumni of Cal-Poly, retired community server for the California State Government after more than 38 years, a community organizer working with several groups and non-profit organizations and an activist for over 50 years.

He is here to talk to us about his latest effort called LatinoSTEM. This group is involved with the next generation of college students, looking ways to motivate and guide the youth to apply to higher education.

Getting local kids involved with STEM careers and education is of the utmost importance for California State in this new digital world. Half of California high school graduates are Latinos, and in few years the number will rise to 60%. These figures do not translate to the population of university students in the state. A similar disparity in the numbers can be found in the high-tech industry of Silicon Valley, where a 3% – 5% is the Latino population and 2% – 3% the African American.

Somehow the education system is failing millions of young people in reaching their full potential. Organizations, like LatinoSTEM, aim to inform teens of the process. Some of the opportunities presented to the kids involve chats, conferences, informational materials and tutorials of how to apply to higher education. This help is even more necessary in rural areas or in the urban low-income neighborhoods where the lack of counseling add to the economic and social issues these kids may face.

Aleman is also involved in other non-profit groups that get people together for a common cause, helping minorities. Another example of this is the “Latinos United”.

Other than his military service during the Vietnam war, he has worked from decades in different departments of the California Governments, and now is partially retiring to dedicate more time to family and social causes.

 

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Today we will be talking with Dr. Piero Scaruffi, He is the organizer of some very interesting events where all scientist, engineers, mathematicians, entrepreneurs artist and musicians are invited to share and reach to each other. They took part this October at Stanford University but are also recurrent in other bay area Universities as well in other campuses around the country. We invite you to research and take part in this type of cultural interdisciplinary exchange.

Piero Scaruffi  is a cognitive scientist, a mathematician, a music critic and an event organizer.   He has worked for many years in electronics, robotics and artificial intelligence fields but always keeping a connection with his passion for music and arts.

He has written deeply about the reason silicon valley became a hub of creativity and innovation. He is convinced of the importance of multidisciplinary, multicultural and widely knowledgeable teams that can approach issues from a variety of viewpoints. These collaborations will make the most of creative solutions, bringing not just the scientific or mathematic background but the artistic one.

L.A.S.E.R. is the acronym for “Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous” wich is a serie of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology. It was founded by Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST, LASERs. They now are presented in many organization and universities like the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, with other nodes at a  New York Studio, also in  some venues at London, Tacoma, Toronto and Montreal. There is also a sister serie called D.A.S.E.R. that has headquarters at Washington D.C.

L.A.S.T. is the acronym for the  “Life Art Science Technology Festival”. It is described by its founders as the festival that celebrates the confluence of art with the technologies and sciences that are shaping the 21st century.  It started by one event in San Jose on 2014, but is now in its third edition, with possibly many more to come.

Each event aims to bring out the renaissance man of every creator and inspire new ideas and innovative responses.

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Today in people who changed the world we remember Luis Barragan, Mexican architect with a Pritzker Architecture Prize on 1980. He was the second architect ever to achieve this award, which is the most prestigious one in the world in the field of architecture. He was also the first Latino in doing so.

Luis Barragán full birth name was Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín (1902 –1988). He was native of Guadalajara in Jalisco Mexico, sand a son of wealthy, conservative parents. He grow-up on the family’s big property in the southern state of Jalisco.

He initially graduated in engineering from “Escuela Libre de Ingenieros” in Guadalajara in 1923 but undertook extra courses in architecture to learn both trades. After his graduation, he traveled to Europe to learn more about the classics in architecture and see first hand the most important buildings of all times. During this long trip, he got acquainted with  Ferdinand Bac, a German-French writer, and designer, and with the master of modern architecture Le Corbusier. Later he also met Mexican mural painter José Clemente Orozco.  All those were inspirations that later he cited as important influences trough his fruitful and successful career.

Although he was heavily inspired by the clean lines of modernism, the international style, and the lectures he took with le Corbusier, he evolved with a personal style moving from the strong functionalism of the Corbusian “machine for living” (1923). The work of Barragan had been described by critics as minimalist and an important part of the international movement, but it was actually set apart by the mixing of the colonial and the Mexican elements in a new modern way. His work expressed a more colorful style that had been described at “emotional modernism”. He was known to say, “any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake.” He worked with light, color and natural materials to create an emotional response to spaces in the search to the serene and almost meditative state he strives to achieve. This distinction was particularly important in his historical context as most Mexico’s artists, architects, and intellectuals during the first half of the XX century were searching for a new national identity and style, after centuries of colonial rule.

Luis Barragán worked for years with little acknowledgment of the public outside Mexico, but in 1975 the Museum of Modern Art in New York created a retrospective compilation of his works and made him knows to the international critics. In 1980, he became the second winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Years after his death, his house and studio in Mexico City, built in 1948, were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Since then he has influenced many other great architects, like Alvaro Siza (Pritzker prize 1992) and Ricardo Legorreta. The great American architect Louis Kahn consulted Barragan to get an opinion on his work and is said to have helped him in his design for the Salk Institute in La Jolla California (1965). His opinion to change the original design from an open garden between the buildings to an open plaza with a single water feature is by large the most impressive part of this project.

Today his work is regarded as one of the most important architects of the 20th century, and his buildings are renowned for their mastery of space and light, but he was also a very influential landscape architect and urban planner. His work had been cited as an inspiration by a succession of other Pritzker winners – from Tadao Ando (Pritzker prize 1995) and Frank Gehry (Pritzker prize 1989), to Rem Koolhaas (Pritzker prize 2000)

According to the Kauffman Foundation, a leading non-profit focused on advancing entrepreneurship, the rate of new entrepreneurship is highest among Latinos. Latinos play a significant role in US Economy, but there is still more potential in this population that will benefit all aspects of the economy. To talk about this topic we have Remy Arteaga with us today.

Arteaga was born in Peru and grew up in Queens, New York. He earned his Engineering degree from the University of Rochester, later an MBA from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute specializing in entrepreneurship and innovation. He also graduated from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, with a specialization in non-profit management and fundraising. He has a vast experience in the topic of entrepreneurship as he has founded various successful projects and has written widely on the subject.

He manages a collaboration between Stanford University and a non-profit known as the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI.US). SLEI has different programs working in parallel at the moment to support growing business.

Their fellowship is an investment in Hispanic business owners, and the main idea is to help them to scale their business through a program that provides education, networks, mentorship and access to capital to grow their business with the knowledge that this initiative will also create new jobs and help to build a stronger economy.

He is talking with us today about Latinos in entrepreneurship and about all these new programs that Stanford University is opening to help level the field of innovation.

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Dr. Linda Prieto, PhD

Today we will talk about new and old methods of education. Our guests talked to us from Stanford University and from the University of Texas in San Antonio. They are: Dr. Belinda Flores, Department Chair and Professor of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies  at University of San Antonio, Dr. Lorena Claeys Executive Director of the Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE) also located at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and here at the station Dr. Linda Prieto, also Ph.D., who just relocated to Palo Alto, and had been Assistant Professor The University of Texas at San Antonio for years, and part of the Nepohualtzitzin project.

The specific topic of discussion today is the learning of an ancient method of understanding mathematics, that was developed by pre-Columbian tribes for millennia and today can be re-used to advance and facilitate the comprehension of simple and complex concepts through a graphic and logic way.

Dr. Lorena Claeys, PhD

The Nepohualtzitzin project had proven that kids in preschool can easily understand concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and even square-root with this method in a playful graphic way.

At the same time, college students for computer science had found their methods helpful in facilitating binary numbers concepts and applications. It can be used for any level of mathematic learning and its visualization.

Nepohualtzitzin was used by Aztecs, Mayan and Nahuatl tribes for basic math all the way to differential calculus and matrixes.

They were used to calculate and comprehend the behavior of planets, stars, seasons and calendars. It was also used for construction calculus and any application on everyday life.

Dr. Belinda B. Flores, PhD

Today it is getting re-adjusted to help teacher and kids to get the wrap of concepts, as the auxiliary method of learning. It was noticed that for many teachers Math was the topic they felt less confident, so the University of Texas started helping them with a modern application of this nation method. It was also tried on many after school clubs for kids in elementary school, and it is in the world to apply it to a broader community. It has been already being tested in Mexico to teach kids. The university of Texas is also developing online and mobile digital application of the ancient pre-Columbian abacus.

Examples of Nepohualtzintzin Abacus

Among the current purposes for the project on the UTSA, the  are Nepohualtzintzin project aims to:

* Broadens students’ mathematic reasoning ability

* Provide a structure where learning is anchored to socio-cultural practices and language

* Transform the student from one who acquires knowledge into one with an ability to learn and be capable of continually building and deepening his/her intellectual capacity

* Promote designed strategies for learning how to live in communal harmony

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Today our guest is San Francisco poet laureate Alejandro Murguía. He is a Californian-born artist, son of Mexicans with a life-long experience in writing. In fact, he had recited poetry since he has in preschool and had been always involved in the art of languages in one way to another.

Murguía is an important figure in activism in San Francisco, especially in the historically Hispanic Mission District.

Murcia is also a professor of Latin American Literature at San Francisco State university and holds the title of the first Hispanic in achieving the honor of poet laureate in a city of poets, as he calls his beloved metropolis.

Murguía has published 5 books of original work, and is always active in the city, involved in lectures, poetry readings, and lately even in cinematographic projects.

His books  Southern Front(1990) and This War Called Love (2002) were both winners of the American Book Award.He also published “Stray Poems” (2014), “The Medicine of Memory” (2002), and “Farewell to the Coast” (1980).

Young Alejandro Murguía in his activist role, on the streets of San Francisco

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His latest project involves a new film inspired by a one of his original short stories about the mission district.  In this case, the story talks about the mysterious fires that had been misplacing Hispanics outside the city. The film is called, “The other Barrio”.

Listen to the show to learn a about his life, the road he took as a poet, his work and inspirations.

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Latinnovation, by Graciela Tiscareño-Sato Today our story is about women in leadership, about stepping up to great challenges, about success and about military life. It is also about family and about following your dreams even when they seem big. Today I am bringing you a conversation with Graciela Tiscareño-Sato about her wonderful journey. Ticareño is the daughter of working immigrants in Colorado, first of five siblings, who found a sea of possibilities in the military. She got a high-level education from a worldwide leading university (UC Berkeley) with a scholarship from US Air Force before committing to a life in service. But later as an officer, she learned about piloting, navigating and all the technical matters about this complicated sophisticated machines that she rode for many years until her retirement. Tiscareño class graduation. The only women in the group. She is a veteran, a mom, an author, a small business owner, and a positive force of inspiration to many with her books and public speaking career. Today a profile of “Captain Mama”, and her path to success. _______________________________________ We hope to inspire and inform. We wish you can give us feedback, subscribe to this site and our social media outlets to [...]

Since the beginning of time, humankind has been on the search of knowledge, trying to find answers to questions, exploring the outer limits and dreaming about what else is there. In the last century, we have developed new technologies that got us to a new era, the space exploration era. For this new quest we have built amazing earth telescopes, we have sent machines to explore in the search for answers into the sky. This is the case of missions like the Hubble telescope, or the Kepler mission, among other innovative technologies. But the advances have not stopped there, and with every day new technological developments and new discoveries, we can look even further into deep space, with fewer resources, and with fewer efforts. Dr. Eduardo Bendek This is the case of the project that Chilean engineer Dr. Eduardo Benek is working on for NASA Ames, in Mountain View, California. Eduardo Bendek is a researcher at NASA and serves as Deputy Principal Investigator (PI) for the ACESat SMEX NASA Mission proposal. Dr. Bendek  received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (ME) minoring in astrophysics in 2002. In 2004, he received his Master of Sciences in ME. In 2012, he graduated with a Ph.D. in Optical Sciences from the [...]