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Hispanic Roundtable of South Sound Una fuerte comunidad latinx A strong Latinx community President : Bill Fishburn (Department of Health) Vice President : Kathy Baros Friedt (Retired Executive) Treasurer : Lola Flores (Department of Ecology)


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Hispanic Roundtable of South Sound

Una fuerte comunidad latinx A strong Latinx community

President: Bill Fishburn (Department of Health) Vice President: Kathy Baros Friedt (Retired Executive) Treasurer: Lola Flores (Department of Ecology) Secretary: Sara Peté (Timberland Regional Library) Board M embers: Rafael Estevez (DCYF), Theresa Kimball (Consultant), Sherry Sullivan (CIELO), and Dianna Torres Angulo (Comcast)

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Vision/M ission

  • Vision
  • Una fuerte comunidad latinx/A strong Latinx

community

  • M ission
  • Strengthening the Latinx community through

partnerships, education, community building, and cultural representation

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HRT BOARD PRESIDENT

Bill Fishburn is the current President of the Hispanic

  • Roundtable. Bill has been an active volunteer in our

community since 1996, and he began working with us in 2008 as a representative of the Intel Corporation, where he worked until 2016 in various

  • roles. Bill currently works at the Department of

Health in Information T

  • echnology. He is a father to

three, a grandfather to one, and a husband of almost 30 years.

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HRT BOARD VICE PRESIDENT

Kathy Baros Friedt has been involved with the Hispanic Roundtable for 15 years! She’s been part of leadership planning for the annual Latinx Y

  • uth Summit through all

those years and been VP for the last several. Reinforcing the importance of supporting Latinx students and families so they receive services, feel safe, and flourish in our community is of paramount importance! Kathy was an executive in state government for 30 years. Subsequent to retirement she expanded her presence in many community roles, including Strengthening Sanctuary.

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HRT BOARD TREASURER

Lola Flores was born and raised in Guadalajara, M exico. She has a Bachelors degree in Biology and a M aster in Environmental Studies from the Evergreen State College. She works at the Department of Ecology managing stormwater grants to help restore Puget Sound. As a member

  • f Oly Embrace, Lola also participates in local

activism and community engagement. She enjoys hiking the PNW magnificent trails and jogging. Lola has lived in the area for over seven years with her husband and their two girls.

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HRT BOARD SECRETARY

Sara Peté has been involved with the HRT and the Latinx Y

  • uth Summit planning committee for all

fifteen years she has been at the Olympia Timberland

  • Library. Her current position is Senior Librarian -

Adult Services. Sara and her staff will happily visit you and your organization to let you know all about the many hidden (and free!) treasures of the Timberland Regional Library – including downloadable ebooks, eaudiobooks, emagazines, free online classes, streaming video, and much, much

  • more. Sara will begin a new position at the

Washington State Library in mid-July.

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HRT BOARD M EM BER

Rafael Estevez has over 20 years of active military service coaching, mentoring and counseling soldiers and their

  • families. He earned his graduate studies in Psychology

with a concentration in M arriage and Family Therapy (M FT) from Brandman University. He has a great passion for providing client-centered, strengths-based, cognitive behavioral services with a personal commitment to cultural sensitivity. Estevez also provides equine assisted psychotherapy to veterans, soldiers and their family members of all ages at Four Star Farm, with a short-term goal of getting EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) model certification.

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HRT BOARD M EM BER

Theresa Kimball has been an HRT Board member since 2007. She is co-founder of RALL Y Collective Impact group serving students and parents in five counties, retired from 36 years of higher education and advocacy for low-income and students of color.

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HRT BOARD M EM BER

Sherry Sullivan has been with the board of HRT for 5 or 6 years. As board chair of CIELO, she represents HRT's close ties with CIELO and its long-time educational, mental health, and advocacy services to the Latinx immigrant community in the South Sound

  • area. Now retired from teaching, Sherry

taught at South Puget Sound Community College for over 20 years.

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HRT BOARD M EM BER

Dianna T

  • rres Angulo is a first-generation mujer of

M exican decent who has a passion for Organizational Health and elevating the representation of Latinx students in Bachelors, M aster, and Doctorate degree

  • programs. She was the first Latina to achieve a M anager

position with Comcast's Washington State Sales Call Center and most recently achieved the highest Employee Engagement scores amongst her West Division Sales and M arketing M anager peers. She founded DL TA INC to help the Latinx community gain knowledge an insights

  • n how to help elevate their representation in

Fortune500 companies and higher education.

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History

  • 2002 – 15 people from M ason and Thurston County
  • 2003 – First Latino Y
  • uth Summit; website created
  • 2005 – Partnerships w/community colleges and universities
  • 2007 – Incorporated as 501(c)(3)
  • 2014 – First scholarship partnership (SPSCC)
  • 2016 – Second scholarship partnership (UW)
  • 2016 – First Trust Building Potluck, Speakership
  • 2017 – Know Y
  • ur Rights partnerships
  • 2018 – Community Summit
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Key Objectives

Partnerships

  • Latinx and Latinx ally community groups,

agencies

  • ESD113, schools and colleges
  • Local law enforcement agencies
  • Library system

Education

  • 9-12: Latinx Y
  • uth Summit
  • 7-8: J

unior high College Bound partnering

  • K-6: Under development

Community Building

  • Trust building potlucks with faith

communities

  • Know Y
  • ur Rights events
  • Community Summit

Cultural Representation

  • Speaker series at TRL focused on Latinx

issues/ authors

  • Represent diversity of Latinx cultures at L

YS

Una Fuerte Comunidad Latinx

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Key Objective: Partnerships

M ason County Sheriff’s Breakfast CIELO Gala Strengthening Sanctuary Washington State Coalition for Language Access

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Key Objective: Partnerships

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Key Objective: Education

Latino Educational Achievement Project

photos from: Latinx Y

  • uth Summit

2016 Evergreen State College with Las Cafeteras

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Key Objective: Community Building

First Thurston County Trust Building Potluck, 2016 Third Thurston County Trust Building Potluck, 2018

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Key Objective: Cultural Representation

Author: Kathleen Alcala Author: Reyna Grande Author: Prof. Paul Ortiz

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Calls to Action

  • Become a member today by completing the form

at http:/ / hispanicroundtable.org/ wp/ donate/ member ship/

  • Paper Forms: mail to Hispanic Roundtable, PO Box 6368,

Olympia WA 98507

  • (Dues are $25/ year for individuals, sliding scale for
  • rganizations and agencies)
  • Express an area of interest by the end of this

month and help us create ‘Una Fuerte Comunidad Latinx’

  • Send an email to president@hispanicroundtable.org and

let us know what skills you want to share

  • Take it Easy: make a donation to the Hispanic

Roundtable at http:/ / hispanicroundtable.org/ wp/ donate/

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Calls to Action

  • Volunteer at this year's Latinx

Y

  • uth Summit on November 22 at
  • St. M artin's University
  • Become a 2019 Latinx Y
  • uth

Summit Sponsor

  • Keep your eye out for next year’s

Community Summit – June 2020 – exact date TBA!