LDZ: A Legacy of Preparing Students for Success
The National Hispanic Institute is in the midst of preparing an online version of its Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session for 2021, to be offered along with classic in-person versions of the program. As NHI embarks on this exciting new phase of creating digital programming for students, it’s gotten us to reflect on how […]
A letter from NHI founder and president Ernesto Nieto
Dear NHI Familia: I’ve talked a lot over the years about the concept of a “third reality,” and have written books about how a third reality lens has evolved my life over the years. A lot of that has to do with my wife Gloria, and her boiling down everything into three Third Reality operating […]
NHI’s historic roots as a community Social Entrepreneurship organization
I was present for opening day at DeZavala Park in 1951. I was ten years old at the time. Esther Nieto, my mother, had been appointed the first Latina to hold the position of park director with the Houston Parks and Recreation Department. She was placed in a community popularly known as Magnolia, near the […]
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