The Journey / Feel it
This is not an abstraction. It is measured in lives.
A closed door at the top of a profession is a diagnosis missed at the bottom of it. The cost of this gap is being paid right now, in clinics, in courtrooms, and in families. And the evidence is just as clear that closing it saves lives.
What is happening right now
The workers are being targeted. We are building the leaders.
We will not look away from this. We will answer it: not with fear, but with a generation organized, counted, and rising into every field that decides our future.
46
have died in ICE custody since January 2025, the most in more than two decades.
KFF as of March 2026
70.8%
of the people held in ICE detention have no criminal conviction.
TRAC Immigration, Syracuse University as of April 2026
1.4M
lawfully present immigrants are projected to lose health coverage under the 2025 reconciliation law.
KFF (based on CBO estimates) as of October 2025
$4T
in U.S. Latino economic output. If it were a standalone country, that would be the world’s fifth largest economy.
Latino Donor Collaborative as of July 2025
The same community facing this is the fastest-growing source of America’s future doctors, lawyers, founders, and leaders. Every name added to this alliance is a future that does not go away.
About half of Latino adults now worry that they, a family member, or a close friend could be deported. That fear is real. So is this:
Grief is not our strategy. Power is.
The Evidence Base
When professional and client share a background, outcomes measurably improve.
Representation is not a sentiment. It is a performance variable. Across healthcare, education, and business, peer-reviewed research is consistent.
11.7 pts
point gap in poor glycemic control between Latino diabetes patients with a language-discordant physician and those with a language-concordant one.
+13% / +19%
more likely to graduate high school when Black students in grades K-3 had at least one Black teacher, and 19 percent more likely to enroll in college. Building the Latino teacher pipeline applies the same evidence.
NBER, The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers (Gershenson, Hart, Hyman, Lindsay, Papageorge)
$800B
in annual revenue generated by Latino-owned businesses, which have created the majority of net new small-business job growth in the U.S. since 2007.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2024 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
76%
of reviewed studies found at least one patient outcome improved with language-concordant care.
You have seen the cost. Now see how we turn it.
The distance did not appear on its own. It was made, decision by decision.
The plan to 2045