{"id":66247,"date":"2018-12-12T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-first-hispanic-leadership-summit-at-united-nations-concludes-with-call-to-hispanics-to-unify-lead-change-as-2020-nears\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T23:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T03:56:05","slug":"la-primera-cumbre-de-liderazgos-hispanos-en-las-naciones-unidas-concluye-con-un-llamado-a-la-unidad-de-la-poblacion-hispana-para-liderar-el-cambio-en-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-primera-cumbre-de-liderazgos-hispanos-en-las-naciones-unidas-concluye-con-un-llamado-a-la-unidad-de-la-poblacion-hispana-para-liderar-el-cambio-en-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"First Hispanic Leadership Summit at United Nations Concludes with Call to Hispanics to Unify, Lead Change as 2020 Nears"},"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\">Dec. 12, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The first-ever Hispanic Leadership Summit at the United Nations concluded this week with a call-to-action to unify America&#8217;s Hispanic community of more than 55 million behind a set of common goals, as leaders expressed a desire to bolster the community&#8217;s image and voice in advance of the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg9393left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg9393left\" title=\"Claudia Romo Edelman speaking at the first Hispanic Leadership Summit at the UN on December 10, 2018\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Claudia Romo Edelman speaking at the first Hispanic Leadership Summit at the UN on December 10, 2018\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/797663\/We_Are_All_Human_Claudia_Romo_Edelman_at_Hispanic_Leadership_Summit.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>More than 300 leaders from the worlds of business, news media, policy and politics attended the summit, which was designed as a working meeting, during which attendees voted on issues ranging from professional skills development to improving the success of Latino entrepreneurs to increasing the Hispanic voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>The three items that leaders agreed should top a common agenda for U.S. Hispanics: access to education, financial empowerment and improving the image of Hispanics and Latinos as a community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll remember this summit and its role in playing setting a common agenda as the rallying point from which we moved forward as one aligned Hispanic community,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Claudia Romo Edelman<\/span>, founder of the summit&#8217;s organizer, the non-profit We Are All Human Foundation, which champions equality, diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Informing the summit&#8217;s dialogue were research insights from We Are All Human&#8217;s recently commissioned <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/new-study-shows-latinos-underestimate-their-own-contributions-in-the-united-states-300735795.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hispanic Sentiment Study<\/a>. Conducted by Zeno Group, a global communications firm, the study surveyed more than 2,500 Hispanics over the age of 14, analyzing results by respondents who identified as first-generation Americans and second-generation Americans, as well as along generation lines: Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers and Matures. <\/p>\n<p>A key insight from the Zeno research: 77 percent of Hispanics and Latinx respondents were surprised by at least one of the recent accomplishments made by their community when presented to them in the survey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our research affirms that the significant contributions of U.S. Hispanics are consistently underestimated and overlooked, including among many Hispanics,&#8221; <span class=\"xn-person\">Romo Edelman<\/span> said. &#8220;Our summit leaders agreed this is no longer acceptable, and must be reversed if we&#8217;re to realize our true potential as America&#8217;s largest diverse community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other leaders echoed the need to increase the U.S. Hispanic community&#8217;s influence, as the <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 10<\/span><sup>th<\/sup> summit&#8217;s hashtag (#HispanicSummit 2018) became the number one trending topic on Twitter in both <span class=\"xn-location\">Dallas<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to disclose to the world that we are Latinos and we are Americans,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Sol Trujillo<\/span>, one of the first Hispanic U.S. CEOs and the head of the Latino Donor Collaborative, in opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Added <span class=\"xn-person\">Henry Cisneros<\/span>, the former U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development and ex-mayor of <span class=\"xn-location\">San Antonio, Texas<\/span>: &#8220;2020 needs to be the year of Latino emergence in American politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Hispanics] should make sure our stories are being told &#8211; producers, bookers, everyone involved in storytelling from concept to execution, needs to understand that Hispanic stories are [American] stories,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Hugo Balta<\/span>, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, during a summit panel on the media&#8217;s role in the perception of Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>To view a recap of the Hispanic Leadership Summit and follow We Are All Human&#8217;s journey to unifying Hispanics by 2020 visit their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weareallhuman.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">website.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><u>About the Hispanic Leadership Summit <\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Hispanic Leadership Summit is a non-partisan event that plans to go beyond sectoral interests and insights from the November midterm elections to discuss and reflect on what unites America&#8217;s many Hispanic and Latinx communities, and what should be done to ensure their importance to the U.S.&#8217;s future is understood. Event sponsors included <\/p>\n<p>Golden Sponsors: AT&amp;T Business, Dairy Management Inc, Greenberg Traurig, HARMAN, Microsoft, ULTA Beauty. Silver sponsors: Chevron, PepsiCo, Western Union. Bronze sponsors: Aflac, APCO, Alzheimer Association, Colgate, Viacom, Walmart. Also, Hispanic Executive &amp; The Alumni Society, HACE, Cultura Colectiva, Zeno Group. <\/p>\n<p><b><u>About We Are All Human<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>We Are All Human is a foundation dedicated to advancing the agenda of equity, diversity, inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 2018<\/span>, the Foundation unveiled the results of its Hispanic Sentiment Study, which focused on the\u00a0outlook\u00a0of the U.S. Hispanic\/Latino community by exploring pertaining to politics, business, education and personal values. Conducted <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 15-19, 2018<\/span> via online by the global communications firm\u00a0<u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zenogroup.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zeno Group<\/a><\/u>, the Hispanic Sentiment Study surveyed more than 2,500 Hispanics\/Latinos, aged 14 and older, across <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weareallhuman.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.WeAreAllHuman.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contacts:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Michelle Cooprider<\/span><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:Michelle@weareallhuman.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michelle@weareallhuman.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Mary Ann Schoppman<\/span><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:MaryAnn.Schoppman@ZenoGroup.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">MaryAnn.Schoppman@ZenoGroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg56ealeft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg56ealeft\" title=\"Hispanic Leadership Summit at the UN on December 10, 2018\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hispanic Leadership Summit at the UN on December 10, 2018\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/797664\/We_Are_All_Human_Panel.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/797663\/We_Are_All_Human_Claudia_Romo_Edelman_at_Hispanic_Leadership_Summit.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/797663\/We_Are_All_Human_Claudia_Romo_Edelman_at_Hispanic_Leadership_Summit.jpg<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/797664\/We_Are_All_Human_Panel.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/797664\/We_Are_All_Human_Panel.jpg<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  We Are All Human<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 12, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The first-ever Hispanic Leadership Summit at the United Nations concluded this week with a call-to-action to unify America&#8217;s Hispanic community of more than 55 million behind a set of common goals, as leaders expressed a desire to bolster the community&#8217;s image and voice in advance of the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg9393left\" dir=\"ltr\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg9393left&quot; title=&quot;Claudia Romo Edelman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66247","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=66247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}