LATINAS IN NEWS &

POLITICSAlie Garry and Mariah Monroe

LILIA LUCIANO TV news

journalist Telemundo UnivisionCo-host of “Aqui y Ahora” NBC NewsToday ShowNightly News

LUCIANO’S APPEARANCE IN THE MEDIA What are some of the

notable changes? Why do you think she

had to make these drastic changes?

Is she trying to shed the negative Latina Stereotype?

Does the fact that she changes herself based on the audience bother you?

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SOLEDAD O’BRIEN

• News Anchor•NBC News•MSNBC•The Today

Show•CNN: Latino in America

O’BRIEN’S WORK IN THE MEDIA

How important is it to have the voices of Latinas in mainstream media?

Would you say O’brien’s work helps or hurts Latinas in America?

Latinas In America Preview

Voices From the Latino Community

JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR First Hispanic Justice

of the Supreme Court & 3rd female.

Princeton University & Yale Law school From a young age her

mother instilled the importance/power of education.

Born to a Puerto Rican family, she grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx.

HILDA SOLIS First Hispanic Woman to

serve in the State Senate of California

She was the first female recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2000.

U.S. House of Representatives she focused mainly on labor

causes and environmental work.

In February 2009, Secretary of Labor; became the first Hispanic woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet.

POLITICS OF THE LATINA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

0ZsnQ9c832Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

imLFVfgwmLQ

LATINAS DECIDING FACTORS IN ELECTIONS http://www.youtube.c

om/watch?v=3weOi5L2rpk