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Hispanic
 Mara Bennett
The Latin Motivational Speaker
Helping Latinos Transform their Lives!
Mara Bennett is a dynamic speaker
known for her enthusiastic, inspiring, and positive approach. Mara knows
that healthy self-esteem opens the doors to wonderful life experiences;
experiences that anyone can manifest in their daily lives. Mara continues
to live her mission of raising the self-esteem of every person hearing her
powerful talks, so that they can reach their highest potential. Her
result-oriented seminars on achievement, motivation, and personal power
are transforming the lives of countless Latinos living in the USA.
Paul
Gonzales
Olympic Gold Medallist
Paul Gonzales is the first Mexican-American Olympic champion and was
raised in East L.A. As part of an impressive boxing team in 1984 that
included Tyrell Biggs, Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whitaker, Mark Breland
and Henry Tillman, it was Gonzales, the light flyweight champion,
who earned the tournament’s highest honor: the Val Barker Cup, with
signifies the most outstanding boxer of the Olympic Games. Today,
he continues to devote his time to helping inner-city youth and has
been involved with the United Way, Boy Scouts of America, D.A.R.E.
America and the Inner City Games of L.A. that is spearheaded by Arnold
Schwartzenegger.
 Graciela Kenig
Succeeding in the Workplace, Career Development
Graciela Kenig is a career development speaker, consultant and trainer in
the area of multicultural work issues. She is also the author of Best
Careers for Bilingual Latinos,
the Latino careers expert at monster.com
and the Jobs and Careers Columnist for ¡Éxito! the
Spanish-language weekly published by the Chicago Tribune. Her teaching and
training experience span all age levels. Audiences describe her as a very
dynamic speaker who has a lot to share, particularly with Latinos and
Latinas who want to succeed in the workplace and open paths for others to
follow.
 Sonia
Manzano
Sonia Manzano is known to millions
around the world as the bilingual Maria on Sesame Street, a role she
created over 20 years ago and has gone on to share in 12 writing awards
for the series. A first-generation American of Latino she has
become one of the country’s most recognized Latina role models. She
began her acting career at the High School of the Performing Arts.
She received a scholarship to Carnegie Melon University and in her
junior year went to New York to star in the original production of
the off-Broadway show GODSPELL. Her talks focus on the importance
of Hispanic role models, building character and developing one’s personality.
 Yolanda Nava
Motivational
Yolanda Nava, author of "It’s
All in the Frijoles," is an Emmy-award winning television journalist,
newspaper columnists, educator and community leader. Her book, a multitude
of inspirational anecdotes abound within this first-of-a-kind collection
that incorporates lessons from heroes, both ancient and modern, to
reinforce time-honored teachings that have helped mold men and women
of admirable character for generations.
 Linda Nacif
Motivational
As a professional speaker, in
Mexico and the U.S.A., Linda's commitment is to customize and design
innovative and dynamic programs that help people to reach their potential.
The principles of Total Quality Management and living, achieve optimal
results for the CEO, the factory worker, the parent of a college graduate.
Linda's goal is to share these life-changing concepts and techniques
with her audience. If put into practice, they will change self-limiting
beliefs, attitudes, behavior and thus lives. Positive Thinking
Isn't Enough. How to provide the fuel to convert positive thinking
into positive believing and then into action.
 Edward James Olmos
Motivational
Edward James Olmos was born
to an immigrant father and a Mexican-American mother in the ethnically-diverse
neighborhood of East L.A. He refers to it as "a salad bowl"
rather than a melting-pot, because each culture kept its strengths,
but blends together to create a greater whole. Known for his acting,
directing and screenwriting, they are only parts of what he does.
Olmos contends he would much rather be known as an activist than an
actor. He devotes much of his time to causes, particularly those focusing
on the needs and rights of children and makes appearances at places
where he can reach kids at risk; juvenile halls, detention centers,
boys/girls clubs, schools. Anywhere he can get across his message
that "we all have a choice" about where life takes us.
 Julie Stav
Understanding and Taking Control of Your Finances
Julie Stav, the best-selling author of Get Your Share, stands
poised to become the next major personal stock market educator in North
America. A stockbroker and financial planner with extensive experience and
training in both education and financial planning, she was born in Cuba
and came to the United States as a teenager. Since 1979, Julie has been
sensitive to changes in the marketplace and has been on the cutting edge
of actively educating women through hundreds of financial planning
seminars. Julie's belief that women can use their knowledge of investing
as a tool to instill self-confidence and take control of their lives has
empowered women of all means around the country.
 Fred Soto
Leadership
Fred Soto is known for his ability to impart a vision, clarify purpose,
manage diversity and influence leadership in today's changing work force.
From 1975 to the present, he has provided leadership and direction to
programs involving organizational effectiveness, personnel management,
diversity, and training. He follows the philosophy the three most valued
skills of the new millennium will be the ability to learn, adapt and work
with people who are different from ourselves. It is not the job that you
occupy but the person that you are that will ultimately affect your
future.
 Richard
Verches
International Affairs, Human
Rights, Latino Issues
Richard Verches boasts a diverse career that includes the distinction of
serving as an international human rights lawyer for the United Nations. He has
taught international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law at the
International Institute of Human Rights in France. Active in civic
and community affairs, he is Vice Chair of the California Student Aid
Commission, President of UCLA’s Latino Alumni Association and serves on
the Board of the Directors for the California Hispanic Education Fund and
Hispanics in Philanthropy. He currently services as EVP for Business
Development with NEW Capital, an affordable housing and economic
development corporation.
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