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Students at 2024 Texas LDZ for Walmart sponsorship story

Walmart supports transformational NHI experience for 49 students in four states

Posted: November 14, 2024 at 8:00 am   /   Great Debate, LDZ, NHI Sponsors

Thanks to support from Walmart, 49 students in all (25 from Texas, four from Oklahoma, 19 from Illinois and one from Iowa) won scholarships to support their attendance at National Hispanic Institute’s leadership programs this past summer.  The Walmart grant, totaling $27,500, supported two of NHI’s Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session programs and […]

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2024 texas ldz students

NHI renews its connection with Concordia University at trinational Texas LDZ program

Posted: August 20, 2024 at 4:40 pm   /   LDZ, NHI Programs

More than 200 students, hailing from across the United States as well as Mexico and Panama, came to Austin, Texas, to attend a very special edition of the Texas Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session from July 21-28. The flagship program of the National Hispanic Institute followed the blueprint that the original Texas LDZ did […]

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2024 american ldz students

American LDZ brings international cohort to St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Posted: August 12, 2024 at 9:50 am   /   Volunteers

Nearly 140 delegates converged on St. Mary’s College of Maryland for the 2024 edition of the American Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session from July 7 to 14. The program, part of the National Hispanic Institute’s three-year leadership series for high-performing high school students, derives from the initial Texas LDZ program, started in 1983, […]

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