May 9, 2022 Nicole Nieto honored by University of Texas at Austin with lifetime service award
May 3, 2022 NHI Person of the Year Arturo Elizondo honored with Laredo’s Key to the City
April 29, 2022 Rudy Rodriguez joins NHI staff, bringing asset-based perspective to college outreach
April 26, 2022 NHI’s Julio Cotto honored by former high school as a notable alumnus
March 31, 2022 National Hispanic Institute develops Latino youth leaders with seed investment from Sands Cares
Nicole Nieto honored by University of Texas at Austin with lifetime service award
NHI Person of the Year Arturo Elizondo honored with Laredo’s Key to the City
Rudy Rodriguez joins NHI staff, bringing asset-based perspective to college outreach
NHI’s Julio Cotto honored by former high school as a notable alumnus
National Hispanic Institute develops Latino youth leaders with seed investment from Sands Cares
Gloria de Leon and Ernesto Nieto honored by Con Mi MADRE with Corazon Award
National Hispanic Institute develops Latino youth leaders with seed investment from Sands Cares
This article comes courtesy of Sands Cares, tied to the program bringing Las Vegas-area students to NHI programs starting this summer. How do you prepare Latino youth leaders for tomorrow’s communities? That question drove Ernesto Nieto to establish the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) in 1979 with the goal of both inspiring and training the rapidly […]
Remembering Mary Ontiveros, a friend to NHI in Colorado
The National Hispanic Institute learned of and shared the news of Mary Ontiveros’ passing last week. Ontiveros was the first Vice President of Diversity at Colorado State University, and as a pillar of the CSU community for more than 50 years in a number of roles, was vital in the development of NHI’s partnership with […]
NHI renews longstanding partnership with Augustana College for Midwest Great Debate
The National Hispanic Institute, which has provided leadership education for top-performing Latino high school students since its 1979 founding, is continuing its longstanding partnership with Augustana College with the 2022 edition of its Midwest Great Debate program July 3-8. The six-day program, the first in a three-year curriculum showcasing NHI’s community-based approach to civic engagement, […]
National Hispanic Institute develops Latino youth leaders with seed investment from Sands Cares
This article comes courtesy of Sands Cares, tied to the program bringing Las Vegas-area students to NHI programs starting this summer. How do you prepare Latino youth leaders for tomorrow’s communities? That question drove Ernesto Nieto to establish the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) in 1979 with the goal of both inspiring and training the rapidly […]
Remembering Mary Ontiveros, a friend to NHI in Colorado
The National Hispanic Institute learned of and shared the news of Mary Ontiveros’ passing last week. Ontiveros was the first Vice President of Diversity at Colorado State University, and as a pillar of the CSU community for more than 50 years in a number of roles, was vital in the development of NHI’s partnership with […]
NHI renews longstanding partnership with Augustana College for Midwest Great Debate
The National Hispanic Institute, which has provided leadership education for top-performing Latino high school students since its 1979 founding, is continuing its longstanding partnership with Augustana College with the 2022 edition of its Midwest Great Debate program July 3-8. The six-day program, the first in a three-year curriculum showcasing NHI’s community-based approach to civic engagement, […]
Nicole Nieto honored by University of Texas at Austin with lifetime service award
Nicole Nieto, the National Hispanic Institute’s Executive Vice President, has been honored by the University of Texas at Austin with an award for her lifetime service in volunteerism and forwarding leadership education. Nieto was honored with the William C. Powers, Jr. Lifetime Service Award, among a group honored with various awards at May 4’s annual […]
NHI Person of the Year Arturo Elizondo honored with Laredo’s Key to the City
In 2019, NHI named Arturo Elizondo the NHI Person of the Year, honoring his vision to reshape the food ecosystem by developing alternatives to animal proteins. A little more than two years beyond those honors, and Elizondo’s progressed in his dreams — and has received another meaningful accolade to acknowledge that. Elizondo was honored by […]
Rudy Rodriguez joins NHI staff, bringing asset-based perspective to college outreach
Rudy Rodriguez’s NHI journey began when she was a freshman at Del Rio high school in 2002. As she remembers, “Somebody in the community said you need to do this program. They put a group of us in a car … to Alpine, Texas at the time, for a Young Leaders Conference, a Great Debate, […]
Nicole Nieto honored by University of Texas at Austin with lifetime service award
Nicole Nieto, the National Hispanic Institute’s Executive Vice President, has been honored by the University of Texas at Austin with an award for her lifetime service in volunteerism and forwarding leadership education. Nieto was honored with the William C. Powers, Jr. Lifetime Service Award, among a group honored with various awards at May 4’s annual […]
NHI Person of the Year Arturo Elizondo honored with Laredo’s Key to the City
In 2019, NHI named Arturo Elizondo the NHI Person of the Year, honoring his vision to reshape the food ecosystem by developing alternatives to animal proteins. A little more than two years beyond those honors, and Elizondo’s progressed in his dreams — and has received another meaningful accolade to acknowledge that. Elizondo was honored by […]
Rudy Rodriguez joins NHI staff, bringing asset-based perspective to college outreach
Rudy Rodriguez’s NHI journey began when she was a freshman at Del Rio high school in 2002. As she remembers, “Somebody in the community said you need to do this program. They put a group of us in a car … to Alpine, Texas at the time, for a Young Leaders Conference, a Great Debate, […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Transforming the DNA of Congressional Battles
For the upcoming issue of the annual print edition of NHI Magazine, we interviewed New York City native, Congressional candidate, 2017 NHI Person of the Year, and 2018 Northeast CWS co-Education Director Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. An excerpted version of this interview will appear in the magazine, but we thought this valuable enough to share the entire […]
Humberto Saenz named NHI Person of the Year
From the very beginnings of NHI, Humberto Saenz was there, and he’s been helping to shape NHI history since his first involvement with NHI 32 years ago. Now, he’s making history by become NHI’s first ever Person of the Year. The NHI Person of the Year is a new designation honoring a person in the […]
Kerr Foundation awards NHI $65k in support of Lake County students
The Roy G. Kerr Foundation, continuing its history of generous grants to the National Hispanic Institute, has awarded the organization $65,000 in support of Lake County students who will participate in NHI’s 2017 summer programs. The foundation was launched in 1994 with the purpose of supporting the Latino community in Lake County over a 25-year […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Transforming the DNA of Congressional Battles
For the upcoming issue of the annual print edition of NHI Magazine, we interviewed New York City native, Congressional candidate, 2017 NHI Person of the Year, and 2018 Northeast CWS co-Education Director Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. An excerpted version of this interview will appear in the magazine, but we thought this valuable enough to share the entire […]
Humberto Saenz named NHI Person of the Year
From the very beginnings of NHI, Humberto Saenz was there, and he’s been helping to shape NHI history since his first involvement with NHI 32 years ago. Now, he’s making history by become NHI’s first ever Person of the Year. The NHI Person of the Year is a new designation honoring a person in the […]
Kerr Foundation awards NHI $65k in support of Lake County students
The Roy G. Kerr Foundation, continuing its history of generous grants to the National Hispanic Institute, has awarded the organization $65,000 in support of Lake County students who will participate in NHI’s 2017 summer programs. The foundation was launched in 1994 with the purpose of supporting the Latino community in Lake County over a 25-year […]
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