Latino Summit 2011

Panelists ready for the Latino Upstate Summit this Friday!
45 panelists are revving up for 7 panels for the Latino Upstate Summit this Friday at Mohawk Valley Community College. Panels range fro Health, Workforce/Economic Development and Youth to Education, Community, Immigration and Best Practices. Panelists will discuss how these topics are impacting and affecting the Latino population of Upstate New York. See the full list of panelists here along with their individual bios.

Vendor tables still available for the Summit!
If you have a good or service that you would like to market at the Latino Upstate Summit, there is still room available! You will be set up in the beautiful lobby of Mohawk Valley Community College's IT building, where summit participants will be mingling for breakfast and lunch and also moving from session to session through. It's a great opportunity to get exposure to everyone at the Summit! Table space is $300 for businesses, no cost for non-profits when they purchase at least one ticket to the Summit. ($75). Please contact Sonia Martinez at (315) 738-1083 ext. 121 to reserve your space. Deadline for space reservation is October 10th.

	Our Keynote Speak is Secured! Introducing Pegine Echevarria Pegine Echevarria, MSW, CSP is CEO/President of Team Pegine Inc. a global think tank, training and organizational development company focusing on leadership, diversity and motivation. Clients include the US Navy, US Army, National Guard Bureau, Colgate Palmolive, Intel, and Northrup Grumman. Her trainers and facilitators have extensive military and corporate leadership backgrounds. New York Newsday calls Pegine "a walking one-woman antidote to workplace cynicism." Feisty and fun, Pegine is one of 58 inductees into the prestigious Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame (awarded by GetMotivation.com) that includes luminaries Zig Ziglar, Dale Carnegie and Tony Robbins. She is the first Latina and one of only 8 women inducted. The Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) named her one of 100 Global Thought Leaders on Diversity and Inclusion! Pegine has presented on the stage with such notables as Maya Angelou, John Maxwell, Suze Orman, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Bill Clinton as well as President Barack Obama. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, Fortune, HR Magazine, BusinessWeek.com and various consumer magazines interview her regularly as well as CNN, MSNBC and NPR. She was the on air expert regarding leadership, diversity and inclusion in business for Newstalk Television. She is author of 3 books and a six cd professional development course and three scalable license programs.

	A dedicated sponsor to many of the Mohawk Valley Latin Association’s Utica-based events, Excellus is on board to be a sponsor for our Summit!

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