HISPANAS ORGANIZED for POLITICAL EQUALITY. 29th Anniversary AWARDS DINNER DECEMBER 6, 2018 MILLENNIUM BILTMORE HOTEL. Sonia Nazario Executive Director

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HISPANAS ORGANIZED for POLITICAL EQUALITY 29th Anniversary AWARDS DINNER DECEMBER 6, 2018 MILLENNIUM BILTMORE HOTEL Alma Hernández Sonia Nazario

1 HISPANAS ORGANIZED for POLITICAL EQUALITY 29th Anniversary AWARDS DINNER DECEMBER 6, 2018 MILLENNIUM BILTMORE HOTEL Alma Hernández Sonia Nazario Executive Director Pulitzer Prize-Winning SEIU California Journalist & Author RECEPTION 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM DINNER 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM UNDERWRITER SPONSOR

2 RAY OF HONOREE Alma Hernández Executive Director SEIU California Alma Hernández is the Executive Director for SEIU California, an organization dedicated to electing candidates and passing policies that benefit SEIU s 700,000 members and their families in California. SEIU represents janitors, home care workers, social workers, professors, school workers, health care workers, and city, county, and state workers. It is the largest labor union in the state and has been a powerful political voice in California for working people. Ms. Hernández is the first Latina to occupy the role of Executive Director. Ms. Hernández life path is truly a story of the California Dream. Her parents immigrated to California from Mexico in search of a better future for themselves and their family and worked in the fields of Central California before finding other work in the Central Valley s agricultural sector. In addition to playing in the fields as her parents worked, Ms. Hernandez fondly recalls learning the art of negotiation with her mother as they set up shop on the weekends in the Central Valley s swap meets. From an early age, she was fascinated with politics and government and immediately after college, she spent five years as a staff person in the California Legislature. Since then, she has worked as a lobbyist in Sacramento and a manager on numerous California campaigns. She joined SEIU California in 2010 and is inspired on behalf of her parents and family to further the mission of the union to provide dignity and a voice for working people. Prior to her appointment as Executive Director, she served the organization as Political Director, building the organization's field capacity, running independent expenditure campaigns, and helping SEIU California lead the state in building the political power of the new California majority: Latino, African American, and API voters. SPIRIT OF HONOREE Sonia Nazario Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country s most intractable problems -- hunger, drug addiction, immigration -- and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. She is best known for "Enrique's Journey," her story of a Honduran boy s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, "Enrique's Journey" won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in It was turned into a book by Random House and became a national bestseller. Her recent humanitarian efforts to get lawyers for unaccompanied migrant children led to her selection as the 2015 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award recipient by the Advocates for Human Rights. She also was named a 2015 Champion of Children by First Focus and a 2015 Golden Door award winner by HIAS Pennsylvania. In 2016, the American Immigration Council gave her the American Heritage Award. Also in 2016, the Houston Peace & Justice Center honored her with their National Peacemaker Award. Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. She has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a trendsetter by Hispanic Magazine. In 2012 Columbia Journalism Review named Nazario among 40 women who changed the media business in the past 40. In 2018, Nazario was named a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is now at work on her second book.

DI NN ER CH AI R Dinner Committee Lupita

Elizabeth Atlee SVP, Deputy General Counsel CBRE

Claudia Bodan EVP, Market President Commercial

Salazar, MD Family Physician Kaiser Permanente

Mendoza Associate State Director AARP California

Relations & Government Affairs, Valero Hilda

Latin Affairs Coca-Cola North America Honorary

Representative, Policy, Government & Public

Kiyota VP, CA External Affairs Pacific Gas and

Martinez Manager of Corporate Community Affairs

VP, Corporate Philanthropy & Community Relations

California Resources Corporation (CRC) Susan

Manager, Los Angeles Southern California Gas

Regulatory Affairs Southern California Edison

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Theresa

Rayman Dorsett VP Agency/Sales Los Angeles State

Rodriguez VP, External Affairs & Community

Community, Thrivent BRONZE SPONSOR Raul Anaya

3 DI NN ER CH AI R Dinner Committee Lupita Sanchez-Cornejo Director of External Affairs Elizabeth Atlee SVP, Deputy General Counsel CBRE Legal Laura Peralta VP Citi Community Development Claudia Bodan EVP, Market President Commercial Bank of California Sandra L. Salazar, MD Family Physician Kaiser Permanente Adriana M. Mendoza Associate State Director AARP California Brissa Sotelo-Vargas Director, Community Relations & Government Affairs, Valero Hilda Marella Delgado Consultant Peter Villegas Head of Latin Affairs Coca-Cola North America Honorary Sponsor Committee * Jeff Wilson Sr. Representative, Policy, Government & Public Affairs Chevron DINNER UNDERWRITER Travis T. Kiyota VP, CA External Affairs Pacific Gas and Electric Company Lidia S. Martinez Manager of Corporate Community Affairs Southwest Airlines PREMIER SPONSOR Luis Gonzalez VP, Corporate Philanthropy & Community Relations Wells Fargo Margita Thompson VP of Communications California Resources Corporation (CRC) Susan Sifuentes Trigueros Regional Public Affairs Manager, Los Angeles Southern California Gas Company Laura Genao Managing Director of State Regulatory Affairs Southern California Edison Mónica Gil EVP & Chief Marketing Officer NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Theresa Montaño VP California Teachers Association (CTA) Rayman Dorsett VP Agency/Sales Los Angeles State Farm YEAR ROUND SPONSOR Naomi K. Rodriguez VP, External Affairs & Community Relations Dodgers YEAR ROUND SPONSOR Lupe De La Cruz III Sr. Director of Government Affairs PepsiCo GOLD SPONSOR Lupita Sanchez-Cornejo Director of External Affairs GOLD SPONSOR Berta M. Montoya Director New Business Development Latino Community, Thrivent BRONZE SPONSOR Raul Anaya President, Greater Los Angeles Bank of America Javier Angulo Sr. Director Community Relations Walmart Adriana M. Mendoza Associate State Director AARP California Jose A. Vera Managing Director STIFEL Peter Villegas Head of Latin Affairs Coca-Cola North America Irma Rodriguez Moisa Partner AALRR *Partial list of Honorary Sponsor Committee. These are leaders who who represent corporations that committed early to sponsor the 29th Annual Awards Dinner.

Leadership BOARD CHAIR Larisa Cespedes Lang Hansen O'Malley & Miller EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO Helen Iris Torres

Rodriguez 1ST VICE CHAIR Youth Leadership Institute Rosie Arroyo 2ND VICE CHAIR California Community Foundation

Alvarado SPUR San Jose Laura Arciniega The Raben Group Elizabeth Atlee CBRE Legal Vanessa Cajina KP Public

Bojorquez-Gjurich Critical Connections Minnie Lopez-Baffo SoCalGas (Retired) Champions of Olga E.

Acosta-Franco True North Strategic Consulting Dolores L.

Karime Bradvica Consulting Olivia Campos-Bergeron CBS 2 / KCAL 9 Kim Freeman USC Dornsife Anita Gabrielian CG

Garza White Memorial Medical Center Mónica Gil NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Lorena Hernandez Comcast

Associate Director of Operations Lidia S.

Clara Potes-Fellow Nonprofit Consultant Michael Rubio Chevron Brissa Sotelo-Vargas Valero Cecilia Soto-Loftus,

4 Leadership BOARD CHAIR Larisa Cespedes Lang Hansen O'Malley & Miller EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO Helen Iris Torres Board Officers Yammilette G. Rodriguez 1ST VICE CHAIR Youth Leadership Institute Rosie Arroyo 2ND VICE CHAIR California Community Foundation Lupita Sanchez Cornejo SECRETARY Judy Davidds-Wright TREASURER The Wright Consulting Group Board Members Teresa Alvarado SPUR San Jose Laura Arciniega The Raben Group Elizabeth Atlee CBRE Legal Vanessa Cajina KP Public Affairs Evelin Martinez Bank of America Founding Members Maria Contreras-Sweet Founding President Former Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration Carmela Locayo National Association for the Hispanic Elderly Gilda Bojorquez-Gjurich Critical Connections Minnie Lopez-Baffo SoCalGas (Retired) Champions of Olga E. Moreno Bona Fide International Maria Salinas Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board Luisa Acosta-Franco True North Strategic Consulting Dolores L. Arredondo Wells Fargo & Company Elmy Bermejo San Francisco Comission on the Environment Karime Sanchez Bradvica Karime Bradvica Consulting Olivia Campos-Bergeron CBS 2 / KCAL 9 Kim Freeman USC Dornsife Anita Gabrielian CG Benefits Rossina Gallegos Union Bank Maria Gallo Union Bank (Retired) Lupita C. Garza White Memorial Medical Center Mónica Gil NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Lorena Hernandez Comcast David Lizarraga TELACU Carrie Lopez Consultant Belinda Barragan Programs & Policy Director Laura Olivas Associate Director of Operations Lidia S. Martinez Southwest Airlines Diane Medina KABC TV (Retired) John Mendez Mendez Strategy Group George Opacic PG&E Clara Potes-Fellow Nonprofit Consultant Michael Rubio Chevron Brissa Sotelo-Vargas Valero Cecilia Soto-Loftus, MPH Elaine Treviño California Strategic Solutions, Inc Susan Sifuentes Trigueros SoCalGas Arturo Vargas NALEO Nora E. Vargas Southwestern Community College District Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest Peter R. Villegas Coca-Cola North America Staff Diana Amaya Youth Program Manager Meagan Elizondo Programs & Policy Manager Mayahuel Gomez-O Cadiz Strategic Research & Communications Analyst Jael Muller Operations & Development Associate Pricila Novoa Conferences & Programs Associate

5 UNDERWRITER SPONSOR OF S 29TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS DINNER YEAR ROUND SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS SILVER SPONSOR BRONZE SPONSORS PREMIER SPONSOR S S S John Ek & Christina Sanchez RSVP For sponsorship opportunities contact Helen I. Torres at htorres@latinas.org Hispanas Organized for Political Equality - is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, tax ID # , the H logo design, Leadership Institute, Latina Action Day, Latina History Day and Hispanas Organized for Political Equality are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 634 South Spring Street, Suite 920 Los Angeles, CA

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