Latinx Leadership Summit 2020

Why a Latinx Leadership Summit?

With the growing recognition of the needs for our Latinx community, members of the Auraria campus met 16 years ago to develop solidarity and support across the three institutions. The fourth annual summit was the first time the date moved from the time of the Latinx Heritage Month to the time of Cesar Chavez's birthday.

The purpose of the Latinx Leadership Summit is to nurture the cultural pride and identity development in the Latinx community on the Auraria Campus. With these efforts we intend to build a stronger sense of community, belonging, leadership capacity, and a sense of activism that permeates our campus and local communities. This summit intentionally commemorates the work of Cesar Chavez and recognizes those in our Latinx Community whose contribution and impact are reflective of his Life, Legacy and Leadership.


Event Accessibility

The Latinx Leadership Summit welcomes individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations to attend this event, please contact Sonia Del Real Delreals@msudenver.edu by March 2nd. The event coordinator will do their best to provide requested accommodations received after this date. Accomodations can also be requested on the registration form.


Questions? Contact our committee by emailing Abenicio Rael Abenicio.Rael@ucdenver.edu ​ or Sonia Del Real Delreals@msudenver.edu

Ask us how you can get involved in the preparations for our 16th year!

Many members of our community have asked why we've shifted from Latino and Latin@ Leadership Summit to Latinx. The Pero Like team from Buzzfeed made a short video to explain more about Latinx.

Having trouble watching the embedded link? Search "What's the Deal with Latinx" in YouTube, or copy/click the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7R4tKzGlKg

They also made a pretty cool video called "This Is What Latinx Looks Like" that displays clips of Latinxs from around the nation. We enter this conversation

Having trouble watching the embedded video? Search "This is What Latinx Looks Like" in YouTube, or copy/click the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXHbkkQYltM