
NHI announces partnership with St. Mary’s College for new LDZ program
The National Hispanic Institute — celebrating 40 years of developing high-performing Latino high school students into leaders through an innovative, immersive learning experience — will partner with St. Mary’s College of Maryland to open a new location for its flagship legislative session program in 2020. The inaugural East Coast Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session […]

NHI honors its First Families at Celebracion 2019
On November 2, 2019, the National Hispanic Institute celebrated a historic moment in its 40-year history. In a true, once-in-a-lifetime event, NHI co-founders Ernesto Nieto and Gloria de Leon welcomed a group of people who were instrumental to the growth of the organization. The event, for what NHI called its First Families, honored people who […]

Celebracion honors top presenters and Fundamentals exemplifiers
More than 350 students came to San Antonio last weekend for Celebración. Though the summer programs are certainly at the heart of NHI’s leadership education programs for high school students, Celebración is becoming increasingly important for the future leaders who learn through NHI. This year, Celebración’s recent move toward encouraging student presentations to include video — that the […]
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