Join a conversation moderated with Dr. Danielle Clealand, Dr. Yalidy Matos, Dr. Yasmiyn Irizarry, who are joined by Dr. Mark Lopez, Director of Race and Ethnicity Research at Pew Research Center as they engage in a dialogue on how we can improve the count of Latinos in the Census and other surveys. The counting of all Latinos has proven an important point of discussion when addressing the most recent OMB proposal, Special Directive 15, as some Latinos do not choose to acknowledge a racial category and thus the Latino count becomes murky. Join this exciting expert panel on ways we can solve that issue, keeping AfroLatin@s in mind! This conversation will be interpreted from English into Spanish.

Join us for an important conversation on why counting AfroLatin@s matters. Afro-Latina leaders will share their knowledge, wisdom, and lived realities. We will examine race, ethnicity, culture, and the importance of recognizing race within our Latin@ community. Panelists will discuss Encuentro Diaspora and Esperanza United’s report: A call to Action for Inclusive Gender-based Violence Services for Black/Afro Latinas, which addresses anti-Blackness, erasure of Blackness, and the impact of racism in order to build racially and culturally inclusive responses.