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On Advocacy & Elections and Building Power for the Latino Community w/Sindy Benavides (President of Latino Victory Fund)
Episode 9 • 3rd December 2024 • Embracing Your Voice • Atima Omara
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Ever been that only Black or Latino or Asian person in the room? And you had to advocate for your community's interests too? This is something Sindy Benavides faced a lot throughout her career that led her to work for civil rights organizations working on behalf of the larger Latino community.

As President of the Latino Victory Fund (LVF), Sindy's day to day is focused on building political power for Latinos at the local, state and federal level and advocating for issues important to this constituency as well.

As a long time colleague and friend in the work, we talk about everything including: her and life and career and why she thought it important to go to an HBCU for college (and how that informs her work today), how she got her start in politics, the importance of trusting your gut and speaking your truth (even if does make you anxious as hell), we also get to what happened with the Latino Vote in the 2024 election and what she and LVF are planning for the road ahead.


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