LatinaVIDA360:
LatinaVIDA Leaders in Conversation

In this episode, Maria Hernandez meets up with Isaura Gaeta, Vice President, Security Research, Product Assurance and Security Engineering at Intel. We talk about her experience as one of the first Latinas who completed an electrical engineering degree at Stanford and her first-hand experience of the tech companies that shaped the Silicon Valley today. Isaura is personally responsible for some of the breakthrough innovations we all depend upon today. She holds two patents and helped develop the technology at the center of Intel’s Centrino processor which allows us to use our laptops on wireless networks.

El Poder de la Esperanza, The Power of Hope. This is the theme for the 131st Rose Parade for 2020 and the woman who selected this year's theme is Laura Farber, the first Latina to serve as President and Chair of the Tournament of Roses Parade. Take a moment to listen to her story and why hope is a powerful theme in her life's journey and be prepared to be inspired to live your VIDA with intention and dream big!

Ileana Rivera is Senior IT Director for Digital Experience and Employee Collaboration at CISCO. Ileana has been featured Hispanic Executive magazine, Latina magazine’s 25 Latinas Who Shine in Tech and was a participant at the first Hispanic Business Leader’s Summit at the White House under President Obama. We had a chance to talk about her early family roots in Puerto Rico and the challenges she faced when she moved to the mainland. Get ready to be inspired about how she overcame some of the challenges of working in the tech sector as a woman and as a Latina.

Ellen Ochoa is the first Latina Astronaut and the first Latina to lead NASA's Johnson Space Center. In this interview, you’ll hear about how she joined NASA upon finishing her doctorate at Stanford University and how she played a vital role as the team that built he International Space Station. She also tells about the next generation of NASA missions that will take humans further into space. This conversation is out of this world!

This episode features Adis Vila who has held executive appointments in the federal government and then in her home state Florida. A lawyer by training, she has taught in academia and her most recent assignment was as the first Chief Diversity Officer for the US Airforce Academy. She now is a speaker and consults regularly on the the value of diversity at all levels of an organization as a key to business success.

Interview with Yadi Younse, co-founder and CMO of Motiv, a social enterprise and financial tech company with the mission of financial inclusion. Yadi manages partnerships, marketing and client success.

LatinaVIDA360 features Irma Herrera, one of our communities "sheroes" former executive director of Equal Rights Advocates, one of the nation's most respected public interest law firms. Under her leadership ERA advocated for equal pay, workplace safety, and reproductive rights. Irma is now an author and playwright and is traveling the nation with a one act play called "Why Would I Mispronounce My Name" that tells her story and her dedication to social justice.

This episode features our conversation with Laura Martinez, Partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers, one of the largest consulting firms in the world with services in audit, finance, IT, management, market analysis and strategy. Laura is also active in several professional associations like ALPFA and the Financial Women of San Francisco and has been featured in Fortune magazine as a contributor. If you are interested in finance, listen in to her candid experience as a Latina in a highly competitive, fast paced, and complex business sector. She is generous with her advice and shares candidly about success strategies she sees as important today for any Latinas eager to enter a career in finance.

Margarita Quihuis is the only Latina who is researching how to encourage peace in our everyday behaviors. Join Maria Hernandez in this wide ranging interview with the Co-Director of the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford. Our interview highlighted the many different careers she had before her role at the Lab and why her ground breaking work is a source of hope in troubled times.

Interview with Rose Guilbault, a trail blazer in the competitive field of broadcast journalism and mass media. Listen in as she tells her story and her suggestions for anyone seeking to enter a career in journalism today.

In this episode Maria Hernandez, Co-Founder of LatinaVIDA, interviews Marcela Davison Aviles, one of the cultural consultants who worked on the block buster Pixar film Coco. This podcast covers her early roots, how she became one of Disney’s highly sought out cultural consultants. She shares what the film Coco represents for the Latino community and her advice for other Latinas eager to enter the entertainment field.