Over 350 Latina/o high school students from Portland and the local suburbs attended the 6th Annual Educate Conference at Portland State University. David Molina, CEO of Bilingual Hire delivered the Keynote speech that prompted the youth to use their creativity to tackle the problems that surround our everday society.
“When I first walked into the room it felt so alive and inviting. There were a few hundred students who attended and still it didn’t feel disconnected, it felt like one big family.” stated Lakeisha Holloway, a student of CHL-202 “Chicano Latino Studies at Portland Community College, who attended the conference as part of her class assignments.
She went on to state in the paper she wrote up for her class, ” I thought that the brief introduction with guess speaker David Molina, and the incorporation of workshops was both a successful way to encourage and empower the young Latinos and it was creative…