NHI honors 2025 High School Student of the Year, College Students of the Year, and Citation of Merit winner
Drawing upon a tradition that harkens back to the National Hispanic Institute’s annual awards accompanying the annual Celebración event, we’re pleased to announce the latest round of honorees for 2025. Though the award winners have made consistent contributions to NHI over the years, they distinguished themselves in 2025 as especially valuable in advancing NHI’s mission, […]
‘Originators from the very start’: Mary Helen and Dr. Hector Gonzalez, 2025 NHI Persons of the Year
Thirty years ago, a young man from San Antonio, Texas, learned of a National Hispanic Institute summer leadership program, and signed up for it. But as his mother recalls, the night before the program was to start, he expressed he didn’t want to go after all. “We told him, ‘Well, I’m sorry, but like any […]
NHI opens nominations for 2025 Person of the Year and its other annual awards
As it did last year, the National Hispanic Institute is requesting nominations for a series of awards to be presented at the end of the year. NHI will bestow a Person of the Year award as it has every year since 2017, unveiled on NHIMagazine.com five minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve. NHI is […]
