{"id":50180,"date":"2017-01-12T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-ajc-launches-latino-jewish-leadership-council\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:10:02","slug":"ajc-lanza-el-concejo-de-lideres-latinos-y-judios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/ajc-lanza-el-concejo-de-lideres-latinos-y-judios\/","title":{"rendered":"AJC Launches Latino Jewish Leadership Council"},"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]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 12, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0A prominent group of national U.S. Jews and Latinos has established the Latino Jewish Leadership Council (LJLC). Convened by AJC, the new national Council will work to further strengthen Latino-Jewish cooperation in advocating for issues of shared concern and values cherished by both communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The future of this country is based, as it has always been, on communities coming together with a vision for a better future and, through hard work and perseverance, making that vision our shared reality,&#8221; said Luis Ubi\u00f1as, President of the Ford Foundation (2008 to 2013), current President of the Board of Directors of the Pan American Development Foundation, and a founding member of the LJLC. &#8220;In this coming generation, the Latino and Jewish communities working together can achieve any aspiration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AJC has long been committed to deepening Latino-Jewish understanding and cooperation. The LJLC expands upon groundbreaking initiatives that have included helping launch the bipartisan Latino-Jewish Congressional Caucus in 2011, and hosting in 2013 a National Conversation on the State of Latino-Jewish Relations in <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, D.C.<\/span>, attended by 100 high-level leaders from both communities. Many LJLC members have participated in these and other initiatives of AJC&#8217;s Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs (BILLA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the very ethos of American pluralism has been challenged by some, when hate crimes have increased, and when entire communities have been stigmatized, creation of this Council reinforces the importance of our shared destiny, and the strength and resilience our nation derives from its diversity,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Dina Siegel Vann<\/span>, director of AJC BILLA, who is staffing the LJLC.<\/p>\n<p>The Council&#8217;s first meeting will take place in <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 1<\/span>. Visit ajc.org to receive more information and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.org\/LatinoJewish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">LJLC updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of the initial LJLC members is below: <\/p>\n<p>Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Juan Andrade, Jr.<\/span><br \/>President, U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Pilar Avila<\/span><br \/>Board Member, New America Alliance<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Hector V. Barreto<\/span><br \/>Chairman, The Latino Coalition<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Howard Berman<\/span><br \/>Former U.S. Representative <br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Al C\u00e1rdenas<br \/>Senior Partner, Squire Patton Boggs<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Miami<\/span> \/ <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alberto P. C\u00e1rdenas, Jr.<br \/>Counsel, Vinson &amp; Elkins, LLP<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Houston<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Maria T. Cardona<\/span><br \/>Principal, The Dewey Square Group<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Alejandra Castillo<\/span><br \/>Entrepreneur<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Marty Castro<\/span><br \/>President and CEO, Castro Synergies, LLC; Former Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Henry Cisneros<\/span><br \/>Founder and Chairman, Citiview; Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">San Antonio<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Claudio Grossman<\/span><br \/>President, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights; Dean Emeritus, <span class=\"xn-org\">American University<\/span> Washington College of Law<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Giselle Fernandez<\/span><br \/>President, <span class=\"xn-person\">Fernandez Consulting<\/span><br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">David Harris<\/span><br \/>AJC CEO <br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Kahn<\/span><br \/>Honorary Chair, AJC Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shrub <span class=\"xn-location\">Kempner<\/span><br \/>Board of Governors, AJC <br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Galveston<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Abelardo Lechter<\/span><br \/>Chairman, Pan American Association of <span class=\"xn-location\">Philadelphia<\/span>; Board Member, Congreso de Latinos Unidos<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Philadelphia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">David Leopold<\/span><br \/>Board Member, AJC Cleveland; Former President, American Immigration Lawyers Association<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Cleveland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Javier Palomarez<\/span><br \/>President and CEO, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Robert Raben<\/span><br \/>Founder and President, The Raben Group<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Washington, DC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Allan Reich<\/span><br \/>Chairman, AJC National Policy Commission<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Raul B. 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Convened by AJC, the new national Council will work to further strengthen Latino-Jewish cooperation in advocating for issues of shared concern and values cherished by both communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The future of this country is based, as it has always been, on communities coming together with a vision for a better future and, through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50180","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=50180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}