Susan Carter
WEEA Equity Resource Center
edequity-admin@mail.edc.org
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
created by E.O. 12900. Executive Director is Sarita Brown. U.S. Department of
Education, Phone: 202/401-2147, Website: www.ed.gov/offices/OIIA/Hispanic
National Council of La Raza, 1111 19th Street, N.W., Suite 1000, Washington, DC
20036, Phone: 202-785-1670, Website: www.nclr.org
La Raza published a booklet in 1996 "Untapped Potential: A Look at Hispanic
Women in the U.S." and "Latinas in the Workforce: The Nontraditional
Alternative" in 1997. They also run community-based mentoring progrmas.
National Latino Children's Institute, 1611 West Sixth Street, Austin, Texas
78703-5059, Phone: 512-472-9971, Website: www.nlci.org
They are having a national conference in Washington, D.C. Sept 12-15 "Un Futuro
Brillante"
IDRA, the Intercultural Development Research Association, runs a program called
MIJA, "Engineering, Science and Math Increases Job Aspirations (ES-MIJA)"
program. It is a math and science enrichment program for female middle school
students of color, especially Latinas. Contact Dr. Chris Green at 5835
Callaghan Road, Suite 350, San Antonio, Texas 78228-1190, Phone: (210) 684-8180,
Email: cgreen@idra.org, Web site: www.idra.org
Three programs in North Carolina, run by the NCSU 4-H Youth Development program
A. Youth Development School-Age Care Project, spearheading culturally relevant
and responsive programming for after school and summer programs for school-age
youth in North Carolina. Outreach to unserved or underserved populations,
targeting Hispanos / Latinos. (Gina Garcia-Somuk)
B. Educational Talent Search (Jerrye Garcia-Swift)
C. Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of NC (Linda Riggsbee)
Contact Gina Garcia-somuk, NCSU 4-H Youth Development, Hispanic Outreach
Director, 1200 Front Street, Suite 110, Raleigh NC 27609, Phone: (919)513-2053,
Email: gina_garcia-somuk@ncsu.edu
ASPIRA Association, Inc., a national nonprofit organization devoted solely to
serving Puerto Rican and other Latino youth through leadership development and
education. They also run an "ASPIRA Mathematics/Science Initiative." You can
contact them at 1444 I Street, N.W., 8th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, Phone:
(202) 835-3600, Email: aspira1@aol.com, Web site: www.incacorp.com/aspira