LIDERAMOS Blog
2022 Annual Report
Learn about the LIDERAMOS 2022 accomplishments!

MESSAGE FOR THE WEBSITE, UPDATE FROM THE BOARD
Dear LIDERAMOS Friends, As you may know, earlier this year we announced the selection of Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero, PHD, MPP, to serve as the inaugural Executive Director. With over 25 years of experience in community engagement, policy, research, and...

Lideramos President, Juana Bordas, honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
“I am grateful for all the people who have supported me in bringing leadership practice to diverse communities and to help people understand that in a democracy, leadership is everybody’s business.”

Even Babies Discriminate…
(Excerpt: Article written by: Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman) At the Children's Research Lab at the University of Texas, a database is kept on thousands of families in the Austin area who have volunteered to be available for scholarly research. In 2006 Birgitte...

Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century
In Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century expert contributors explore the ways in which leaders and followers can bring forth pacifism, peace building, nonviolence, forgiveness and social cooperation. The chapters focus on the role of...

Water Finds a Way – and We Should Too
By Dr. Kathleen Allen In May of this year I spent some time on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. We had a wet spring in this part of the country and lots of late snowfall in higher elevations. As a result, the high volume of water coming off the...

Latino Identity Politics is Less of a Burden
By David Conde Identity Politics is a term that has been defined “as a tendency of people sharing a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social or cultural identity to form exclusive political alliances, instead of engaging in traditional-based party politics, or...

Serving Justice Through Leadership
As we reflect on the last few years, the scale of global injustice can sometimes feel overwhelming and even paralyzing. It’s clear that the world is in desperate need of a new leadership paradigm—a model that takes an inside-out approach, giving leaders tools to better understand themselves as leaders and to develop a higher capacity for supporting passion and purpose among those they lead.

There Are Conservatives, Liberals and Then There Are Latinos
As the political parties begin to engage for the 2020 national elections, there appears to be what may be considered, a perplexing circumstance to many that sees at least one third of Latinos still in the Republican column.

What Can Nature Teach Us About Resilience and Diversity?
Nature banks on diversity. It is one of Nature’s design principles.