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LDZ: A Legacy of Preparing Students for Success

Posted: September 25, 2020 at 1:21 pm   /   Ernesto Nieto, LDZ, NHI Programs

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 […]

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A letter from NHI founder and president Ernesto Nieto

Posted: March 19, 2020 at 2:41 pm   /   Ernesto Nieto, Global Latino Community

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 […]

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NHI’s historic roots as a community Social Entrepreneurship organization

Posted: May 21, 2015 at 12:41 pm   /   Ernesto Nieto, Featured, From the Print Edition, NHI News

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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