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NHI announces partnership with University of Denver for new CWS program

Posted: February 6, 2020 at 1:34 pm   /   CWS, NHI News, NHI Programs

The National Hispanic Institute announces today that it will partner with the University of Denver to begin a new version of its capstone leadership education program in 2020. The inaugural Rocky Mountain Collegiate World Series program is slated to begin at the university on June 18-22, 2020. Like the established programs in Texas and Florida, […]

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Raul Garcia, Earthjustice's Legislative Director for Healthy Communities

Raul Garcia: From NHI to Saving the Planet

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:25 pm   /   Alumni, NHI News

Because Raul Garcia works as a lobbyist, one of his National Hispanic Institute alumni friends jokes that he “practically lives in an LDZ now.” But Garcia’s also quick to point out that he’s lobbying for communities like the one he came from. He’s putting the public policy and persuasion skills he honed as a high school […]

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Clara Foods CEO Arturo Elizondo

Arturo Elizondo named 2019 NHI Person of the Year

Posted: December 31, 2019 at 11:55 pm   /   NHI Award Winners, NHI News

Arturo Elizondo, a National Hispanic Institute alumnus from Laredo who may change the future of food as we know it, has been named 2019 NHI Person of the Year by NHI President and Founder Ernesto Nieto. Elizondo is the co-founder of Clara Foods, a San Francisco-based biotech food company driven to, according to the company’s […]

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