Latino Leadership: The Latino/a Political Identity

October 5, 2016

Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is hosting a Progreso Latino Fund Forum with keynote speaker, Jessica L.Lavariega Monforti, PHD, Professor and Chair of Political Science at Pace University, on Wednesday, October 5 at 6:00pm at the New Haven Lawn Club. Dr. Lavariega Monforti will lead the discussion around the following:

  • What does it mean for Latino political identity when naturalized Latinos significantly out vote their U.S.-born counterparts?
  • How nearly half of U.S.-born Latinos are younger than 18… and the effect they will have on the politics of the 21st century
  • How these change demographics might affect the political incorporation and representation of Latino and Latinas in the coming years.

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