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En Español Latina Leadership Institute
OUR VISION & MISSION
The vision of the Institute is the discovery, development, nurturance, and empowerment of women leaders from a Latina perspective to be transformational agents in church and community settings.
The mission of the Institute is to provide educational and network opportunities, as well as conduct research and provide contextual publications regarding Latinas in leadership.
The Latina Leadership Institute Provides
- Educational opportunities for emergent or established women leaders
- Mentoring/coaching opportunities for emergent leaders
- Networking avenues providing support, connections, and resources for Latina leader
- Research based on the Latina Leadership experience
- Publications that empower Latina leaders and provide awareness about issues that Latinas in leadership face
Our Story
Being aware of a void of strong Latina leadership, the Institute started as an initiative to identify, develop, and nurture Latina leaders who could serve in both, churches and communities.
This initiative includes quality development of Latina leaders through formal and informal educational opportunities such as conferences, workshops, networking, and mentoring. Due to the focus of this initiative, leaders in training are carefully selected, and individually invited to participate.
The Institute provides an appropriate environment for women to grapple with major issues in leadership for church and society. The Institute seeks to offer various opportunities for women students and female community leaders to practice and sharpen their skills as leaders.
The Latina Leadership Institute is housed at Baptist University of the Américas. The program of the Institute is overseen by an advisory board including: Laura Cadena, Sandra Cisneros, Sandee Elizondo, Teresa Matínez, Dr. Belinda Reyes, Sylvia Tostado and Alicia Zorzoli.
The Latina Leadership Institute is directed by Nora O. Lozano, Ph.D. and Patty Villarreal LMSW, both of whom have extensive experience as Latina women in leadership.
What Latinas Are Saying
"The conference built our confidence, it made us realize our abilities to be successful leaders."
“It was great. We got to a comfort level of where we needed to be in order to speak very openly and understand the next steps in our own ministries."
Our growing number of partners includes:
- Baptist University of the Américas
- Buckner Children and Family Services
- Anchored Love Ministries
- Baptist General Convention of Texas, Congregational Leadership Team
- Baptist General Convention of Texas, Hispanic Ministries
- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Texas
- Editorial Mundo Hispano
- Global Women
- Hispanic Strategy Council
- Woman’s Missionary Union Texas
- Woodland Baptist Church
- Mountain Brook Baptist Church
For more information or to become a partner in this ministry please contact us at:
1-800-721-1396 x 262
LLI@bua.edu
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