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The Health Promoters at work at the Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia on August 15.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF HUMBERTO CRUZ-GUADARRAMA

St. Joe’s students volunteer in Hispanic Health Promoter program

Lily McStravick September 28, 2021

Daniel DiSandro ’23 hopes to attend medical school one day, so getting involved in the university’s Hispanic Health Promoter program seemed like a natural choice. For the past 10 years, students like...

ILLUSTRATION: CASEY WOOD '23/THE HAWK

Being Latina in the U.S.

Natalia Velázquez López October 13, 2020

A population still facing discrimination Living in the U.S. as a Latina is frustrating, and living here for the past four years has made me realize that my community continues to face discrimination. I...

Being black and Dominican

Being black and Dominican

Roderich Martinez February 4, 2020

A narrative on race from a Dominican student The term Afro-Latinx, a more recent adaptation of the phrase Latino for anyone who chooses to remove gender binaries from their identity, is used to describe...

Latinx students experience racism on campus

Latinx students experience racism on campus

Rachel Durante November 19, 2019

One of the international students quoted is identified in the story by initials. The students spoke on the record, but requested not to use her full name since she is on a student visa and fears retribution...

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