{"id":134766,"date":"2022-10-24T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-lulac-national-board-and-lulac-institute-name-three-women-to-top-posts-in-an-historic-move\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:40:01","slug":"en-un-movimiento-historico-la-junta-nacional-de-lulac-y-el-instituto-lulac-nombran-a-tres-mujeres-para-ocupar-altos-cargos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/en-un-movimiento-historico-la-junta-nacional-de-lulac-y-el-instituto-lulac-nombran-a-tres-mujeres-para-ocupar-altos-cargos\/","title":{"rendered":"LULAC NATIONAL BOARD AND LULAC INSTITUTE NAME THREE WOMEN TO TOP POSTS IN AN HISTORIC MOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><b><i>Leaders of Nation&#8217;s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Holding the Official Governance Meeting in <span class=\"xn-location\">Dallas, Texas<\/span> Say the Changes Signal the Start of a New Era for LULAC<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 23, 2022<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The<b>\u00a0League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) <\/b>board of directors\u00a0issued a statement on its decision to<b>\u00a0terminate the remainder of its contract with LULAC Chief Executive Officer <span class=\"xn-person\">Sindy Benavides<\/span>. <\/b>LULAC will now launch a nationwide search to select a new CEO for America&#8217;s largest and oldest Latino civil rights group, founded in 1929.\u00a0The board then voted to authorize the national president and his designees to oversee all matters related to LULAC operations and activities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgcfb4left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgcfb4left\" title=\"The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), founded in 1929, is the oldest and most widely respected Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States of America. LULAC was created at a time in our country\u2019s history when Hispanics were denied basic civil and human rights, despite contributions to American society.\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1927413\/LULAC_Seal_2010_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), founded in 1929, is the oldest and most widely respected Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States of America. LULAC was created at a time in our country\u2019s history when Hispanics were denied basic civil and human rights, despite contributions to American society.\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p><i>&#8220;LULAC today is making it very clear that our organization is moving forward as we have for 93 years, with new leadership and a bold agenda,&#8221; said <\/i><b><i>LULAC National President and Chair <span class=\"xn-person\">Domingo Garcia<\/span>.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<i>&#8220;We are proud to announce that today,<\/i>\u00a0<i><span class=\"xn-person\">Gloria Leal<\/span>, a <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> attorney, has been appointed to hold the position of LULAC General Counsel, the first woman to do so in our more than nine decades of existence. In another first, we appointed <span class=\"xn-person\">Analuisa Tapia<\/span>, the heroine of the Vanessa Guillen movement for justice, LULAC&#8217;s first national Sergeant-at-Arms. Additionally, <span class=\"xn-person\">Sara Walker<\/span> from Chicago LULAC was named special national advisor to the president.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"wcag-arialevel-3\" style=\"display: block; font-size: 1.17em; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"3\"><b><i>About LULAC<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p>The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation&#8217;s largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span>, with 1,000 councils around <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, LULAC&#8217;s programs, services, and advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting the critical needs of today and the future. For more information, visit <u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3685963-1&amp;h=3355146106&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flulac.org%2F&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Flulac.org%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lulac.org\/<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <span class=\"xn-person\">David Cruz<\/span> \u2013 818 689-9991<br \/><a href=\"mailto:davidcruz@lulac.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">davidcruz@lulac.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3685963-1&amp;h=4234329604&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1927413%2FLULAC_Seal_2010_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1927413%2FLULAC_Seal_2010_Logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1927413\/LULAC_Seal_2010_Logo.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  LULAC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><b><i>Leaders of Nation&#8217;s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Holding the Official Governance Meeting in <span class=\"xn-location\">Dallas, Texas<\/span> Say the Changes Signal the Start of a New Era for LULAC<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 23, 2022<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The<b>\u00a0League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) <\/b>board of directors\u00a0issued a statement on its decision to<b>\u00a0terminate the remainder of its contract with LULAC Chief Executive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134766"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134775,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134766\/revisions\/134775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}