The Adelante Movement

From Slate: The Women Take Over

Dahlia Lithwick, slate.com – Mar 2, 2016 The oral arguments for the Texas abortion case, the three female justices upend the Supreme Court’s balance of power. When the Supreme Court last heard oral arguments in a landmark abortion case, it was April 1992, the case was Planned Parenthood v Casey, and Sandra Day O’Connor was the lone female justice. Twenty-four years later, there are ...

From The Latin Post: Meet Soledad O’Brien and the Story Behind Her ‘I am Latino in America’ Tour

Staff Writer, latinpost.com – Feb 23, 2016 Soledad O’Brien has been making waves for being the host of the “I am Latino in America” tour. Here are some interesting facts on one of the top journalists in the world and how she started the tour. How the Tour Started The first “I am Latino in America” tour happened at Florida International University in Miami ...

From Remezcla: 22 Year-Old Cuban-American Sabrina Pasterski May Be the Next Albert Einstein

Yara Simon, remezcla.com – Jan 21, 2016 At just 22 years old, Cuban-American Sabrina González Pasterski has graduated from MIT with a perfect GPA, received an open job offer from aerospace developer/Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and been featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. Sabrina – who is currently a doctorate student at Harvard studying theoretical high energy physics – could coast ...

From The LA Times: Sandra Cisneros opens up in ‘A House of My Own’

Rigoberto González, latimes.com – Oct 1, 2015 Sandra Cisneros has worked hard to surpass the reputation of “The House on Mango Street,” the tale of a Mexican American girl coming of age in Chicago. In the 31 years since that novel was published, she has written short story collections, books of poetry, a children’s book and another novel — but that early ...

From CNN: Meet the woman behind the woman on the $10 bill

MJ Lee, cnn.com – Jul 22, 2015 Rosie Rios notices when women are missing in action. The 43rd treasurer of the United States is keenly aware, for example, that on the third floor of the Treasury Department, there is not a single woman among the portraits of the country’s ex-treasury secretaries. And in the male-dominated world of finance, female senior executives are few and ...

From NBC News: Smithsonian Portrays Civil Rights Struggle Through Dolores Huerta

Melanie Bencosme, nbcnews.com – Jul 3, 2015 When she viewed a National Portrait Gallery exhibit portraying the height of her farmworker activism, Dolores Huerta was struck by a snapshot of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez seated next to her while she lay in a hospital bed. “I was beaten up by the police,” Huerta told NBC News, referring to a 1988 incident where ...

From NBC News: Bilinguals Have Better College Outcomes, Labor Advantages

Griselda Nevarez, nbcnews.com – Oct 14, 2015 Children of immigrants who can speak, read and write in both English and the language spoken at home have an advantage in the labor market, a new report released Tuesday finds. The report by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA and the Educational Testing Service, a nonprofit testing organization, shows that individuals with immigrant backgrounds ...

From the Latin Post: Latino Entrepreneurs More Likely to Leave Business to Family, Friends

Nicole Akoukou Thompson, latinpost.com – Aug 31, 2015 Latino-owned businesses have grown at twice the national rate, and a majority of Latino business owners plan to leave their businesses in the hands of their children, according to a new report. Community and family are key ingredients for the success of Latino-owned businesses. Approximately 80 percent of Latino respondents indicated they intended to pass ...

From NBC News: How To Pay For College – 6 Tips From Latino Experts

Photo Credit: EduBirdie.com Griselda Nevarez, nbcnews.com – Jul 31, 2015 Angelica Melendez said no one guided her through the process of applying and paying for college. She couldn’t turn to her parents because they never went to college and didn’t know the process either. As a result, she made costly mistakes. She took out more student loans than she needed. She ...

From the Latin Post: Latinos Still Leading Digital Entertainment Trends

Robert Schoon, latinpost.com – Oct 20, 2015 For years, Latinos, and especially the millennial generation, have been trendsetters in technology adoption: Latinos tend to own and purchase smartphones at a higher rate than the general population, for example, and their entertainment choices have tended towards adopting digital options in greater numbers and at greater intensity than other demographics. According to a recent ...

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ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Nely Galán is self-made media mogul. She was the first Latina President of Entertainment for a U.S. television network, Telemundo, an Emmy Award winning producer of over 700 television shows in English and Spanish, and the founder of The Adelante Movement to empower and train Latina and multicultural women entrepreneurs. Her entrepreneurship for women manifesto, SELF MADE, is a New York Times Best Selling book written in English, Spanish and Mandarin. Galan has a masters and doctorate in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis on the psychology of money. Her financial podcast, Money Maker/ Mi Mundo Rico on Money News Network is for everyone with untapped greatness who just needs the tools to take flight.

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