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As a two-time Olympic rower for Team USA, Giuseppe Lanzone is the driving force on the business side to match his brother Mario’s prowess in the kitchen. They were born and raised in Lima, Perú. When developing Peruvian Brothers, they wanted to give Washington D.C. not only delicious
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Allison Kokkoros has served the immigrant community for over 25 years as a leader in the field of adult education. Kokkoros played a key role in developing the Carlos Rosario School as the first charter school for adults in the nation as well as growing, expanding, and strengthening its programs
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Yariela Kerr-Donovan, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, SWP serves as the HR Senior Director of Strategic Workforce Planning & Development (Project REACH/Community Education Program) for the JHM. Kerr-Donovan has served as a leader in the healthcare, retail, higher education, and hospitality industries. She is a member of the HR team for HopkinsLocal,
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Beginning as a volunteer at the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) in 1979, Lori Kaplan served as the CEO from 1987-2018. During that time the LAYC expanded into Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties and founded four public charter schools: The Next Step, Youthbuild, the LAYC Career Academy and the
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Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH, is director of the Cancer Preventorium at Washington Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Dr. Huerta is Past-President of the American Cancer Society and the first-ever Latino national president of the organization. He is Senior Medical Editor for CNN en Español. Dr. Huerta obtained
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Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr. is the 62nd Governor of Maryland. After first being elected in 2014, he was overwhelmingly re-elected to a second four-year term — becoming the second Republican Governor to be re-elected in the 242 year history of the state. The Hogan administration has received credit for strong leadership
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Originally from Puerto Rico, Julio Jay Haddock Ortiz is a graduate of St. John’s University in New York. He has been in Washington DC since 1978 and has had a 53-year hospitality career. In 2018, while he was president of Capital Hotels, the latter was sold and so he
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Elizabeth Guzman is the first Hispanic female immigrant elected to Virginia’s 400-year-old General Assembly. Within two months of being elected, Guzman was granted the honor to do the Spanish language rebuttal to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address. Since then, she has been working hard to
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Ana Sol Gutierrez is a former State Delegate for the Maryland House of Representatives. She served three terms in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Montgomery County in Maryland’s District 18. She was the first Latina in Washington Area to win election to popular office in Montgomery County. Gutierrez,
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Franklin Garcia is the U.S. Representative (Shadow) for the District of Columbia. He works to bring democracy to more than 700,000 people in the capital by helping make the District of Columbia the 51st State in the union. He is part of a Statehood Congressional Delegation that includes
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Elba Garcia is a mother, wife, and educator. A native from Puerto Rico, and the child of Cuban immigrants, she recently graduated from Georgetown University with an Executive Masters in Leadership. Garcia has dedicated over three decades to closing the opportunity gap, especially for children who are limited English speakers,
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Mario Gamboa is originally from Lima, Peru, with a degree in Sociology and a graduate in Business Administration. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Literacy in Spanish (CENAES), a non-profit organization that aims to raise awareness over the illiteracy rate that until this day topples