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Speakers and Panelists

Featured Speakers & Special Guests

Domingo Garcia

LULAC National President

Raúl Torrez

Attorney General of New Mexico

Mayor Tim Keller

Mayor of Albuquerque New Mexico,

U.S. Rep Veronica Escobar

TX, 16th District

Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma Barragán

ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States of America

Dolores Huerta

President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and Community Organizer

Gilbert Cisneros

Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness of the United States

Mario Diaz

Deputy Under Secretary of the Army (DUSA)

Roman Palomares

LULAC National Chief of Staff

Rafaela Schwan

LULAC Chief Operating Officer

Moderators & Panelists

Xochitl Oseguera

Vice President of MomsRising and its Spanish-language arm, MamásConPoder

Umailla Fatima

Health Policy Analyst, Unidos US

Rep. Susan Valdes

FL State Representative & Former Hillsborough School Board

Dr. Stephanie Castillo

STEM Advocacy Institute Resident Scientist/Phuture Doctors Founder

Alexander Uballez

United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico

Montserrat Garibay

Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director for the Office of English Language Acquisition and Senior Advisor for Labor Relations, Office of Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Education

Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak

Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Juan Rangel

Federal Lobbyist, National Education Association

Dr. Regina Griego

Engineer (retired), coach, author, and speaker

Melissa Castillo

Senior Advisor Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), U.S. Department of Education

Bethzaida “Betsy” Sotomayor

Volusia County School District, ESOL Department, AFT National ELL Trainer

Dr. Carina Black

Northern Nevada International Center

John M. Garcia

District Director U.S. Small Business Administration New Mexico District Office

Francisco Sanchez

Associate Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)

Izmira Santiago-Mikel

Managing Director-Latin Recording Academy

Jessica Mejía

Senior Advisor for Community Engagement at the U.S. Department of the Treasury

Fernando Martinez

Sr. Vice President of Network Success National Minority Supplier Development Council

Youth Speakers

Nephtalí De León

Poet Laureate, San Antonio, TX

Yocelyn Riojas

Design Manager for NextGen America

Ruben Barrales

Senior Vice President, External Engagement Diverse Segments, Representation and Inclusion Wells Fargo & Company

Laura Gomez

Tech Leader:data, diversity and AI/Latinx founder of several tech projects

Tommy Calvert

Bexar County Commissioner

Melanie Stansbury

United States Representative-New Mexico

Claudia Rodas

Tobacco Free Kids

Ysidra Tellez

Executive Director-Breaking the Silence New Mexico

Antony Graf

Headmaster of Believe Martial Arts, multiple time US National Taekwondo Team Member

Larry Sunderland

US Men’s National Soccer Team U17 Technical Director and FC Dallas Academy Director

Dr. Mara López

Center for Broadening Participation in STEM ASU

Edwin Canizalez

Policy and Legislation Program Manager

Alex Wagner

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), Washington, D.C.

Dr. Mara Queiroz-Vaughn

LULAC Council President, USCIS Ambassador, UNT Professor

Dr. Kristin Austin

VP of I.D.E.As. (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access) for Rewriting the Code (RTC).

FTI Speakers

Jeff Rosenblum

Chief Human Capital Officer, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Bill Valdez

U.S. Department of Energy (Retired)

Dr. Woodrow Whitlow

Associate Administrator for Mission Support at NASA (Retired)

Zina B. Sutch

Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Civil Rights Small Business Administration

Dr. Jimmy Ortiz

Manager, International Postal Relations United States Postal Service

Ricardo Aguilar

CFO Federal Reserve Board of Governors

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