Jaime Diez: From Saint Joseph Academy and NHI to a run for statewide office
When any member of the National Hispanic Institute’s alumni runs for public office – especially when it’s for Congress or a statewide office, fellow NHIers take notice. With that in mind, we put forth the following question to Jaime Diez, who participated in NHI while at Saint Joseph Academy in Brownsville, Texas, and is now […]
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, […]
