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President and CEO for della Hispanic.com, the first Hispanic yellow pages in the state of Delaware. What was your childhood like?

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Well, I was born in Philadelphia and it was rough, Let's be honest with you. I was born in the ghettos of Philadelphia and it was scary to me.

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And at that point when I realized where I lived, some of the kind of neighborhood, I knew that I wanted to

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a better life for myself. And when and why did you live together? My sisters, my mother's brothers and sisters, my aunts and uncles, they live here.

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And I like Delaware because it's smaller, geographically, less people. And it's just more suburban. I think it's just less it's nicer and quiet.

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Where did you attend school? How did your education preparing for your careers? Actually, when you're when

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you're raised in a school like the one I was I was I taught I learned how to defend myself, how to speak up for myself,

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but I realized that I like marketing and media when I was a cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles. That's when I really start,

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fell in love with the media and marketing. What made you decide to become a publisher? Because my passion is to provide information to

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people to better their quality of life for them, for them. And media is the best way to do it. What is Darwinist? How did they come about?

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In the year 2000? I was doing door-to-door canvassing on teaching Latinos how to vote

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and why it's important to vote. And when my daughter's grades were failing, I was just doing too much community service work.

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A friend of mine suggested that I start a website and that it would also help to close the digital divide.

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And so I started Hispanic.com and at the time it was the first Hispanic Internet magazine in Delaware.

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And so I created that to again provide information for people. Or some people can learn about Hispanics and also so that Hispanics

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can be more educated as far as what's going on in Delaware for them. Why did you create the dollars?

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Get into what the Yellow Pages started when I visited a store in in in bear and it was a hispanic owned water company.

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She she distributed water and drinking water. And if and I figured if I didn't know about her, who else didn't know about her.

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And I wanted to have a way for Hispanics to know each other as far as businesses, and also for non Hispanics

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to patronize are businesses. Where do you see as the most important issues affecting Hispanic today? And what changes would you like to see me?

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I think the most important issues, education and health. And when we're educated than weaken the sky's the limit as far as

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what we can accomplish. And the changes that I would like to see is for more Hispanics who are educated to help, to help those that are not.

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And also for Hispanics that first come here to learn how the American system works so that they can be more

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comfortable and get in trouble less and things like that. How long have you worked with the radio station and what is

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your role at WI alumnus radios 14:50 AM. I am a producer, anchor and reporter. I've been there for 10 years and I love it. It's a great medium.

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It helps me with my English. It's helped me so much. And it helps everyone that gets my information to again,

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my passion is to provide information for the quality of life of others. Learn achievement at which you are

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particularly proud and what is it and why is it? Well, my biggest achievement, believe it or not, is is having my daughter.

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I mean, it is wonderful being a mom. And she had I've learned more from her. I think she has from me. And she's helped me to

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better myself because she looks up to me. So when I kinda want to slack or whatever, you know, I don't like I want to do things right because she's looking up to me.

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So my biggest and best achievement ever that I can think of is being a mother. What was a major event in your life and how has it affected you?

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The one I can think of right now is 9, 11, that was very devastating to me. Not necessarily as far as the culture is concern,

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but what humans are capable of doing and on. And it just makes me think that if we can do what happen in 911, just think if more of us were more positive,

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how we can help others and do things. To help each other as opposed to hurt each other. So we have the power to do

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whatever it is we choose. That was very devastating for me. What have you done to overcome obstacles in your life?

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Well, I am a I practice the secret, so I'm studying the law of attraction and just how what I think and how powerful my mind is.

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So I do meditation and yoga and I try to work out so that it can better my body so that I could be better what I do and where

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I worked in my career. And also so that I could be a better person, a better role model to others. Every role models or mentors.

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My role model, God, there's so many. Senator Margaret Rose Henry sees the first African-American in the Senate. She's still the only African American

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in the Senate in Delaware. There's so many people that I look up to that have taken me under their wing

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to to to help better myself. How did you end up getting out of Philadelphia? Well, I was a cheerleader for

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the Philadelphia Eagles and at that time for the first season, right by towards the end of my first season, I met my first husband and

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he traveled the country because he was in the military. And then I have my daughter. But I liked the traveling because

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I got to see different cultures in the United States or anywhere in the world, this is the best place. I'm not a traveler outside

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of the US that much, but and it's good to be worldly and all that. But I saw a lot of different states like the South and how it's different from

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the North and the West and things. So that's how I got out of Philly. But I settled in Delaware because it's just like it geographically.

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If you want to make an impact, It's good to be in a small state like Delaware and I love making positive impacts. So that's why like Delaware.

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Exactly as you become a Buddha children. I went because a friend of mine wanted to go and she was afraid to go by yourself. So I just went to keep

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her company and she said, Well, you have to try out and me, I don't want to be alone, so I did it and unfortunately,

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she didn't make it, but I did. And what she wasn't my friend after that. But there were a lot of cuts and tryouts after that.

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So I just pursued them and I don't I I got the position it was I was so surprised. So what exactly is it that very first fell in love with media?

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It's not just from older people see God as a cheerleader, right? The camera people, the photographers, the reporters.

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And I realized then that that what, what comes out of whatever they're recording can change somebody's life, but what they publish.

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Also as a cheerleader, I learned about teamwork and the importance of working in a group and not wanting to

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be the star because it was very, you know, if you, if you were the type of cheerleader that you wanted to be, the star, got cut.

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You had to look exactly like everyone else. So that was ingrained in me there. And as a junior, it was teamwork and team effort.

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As far as what you see as the impact of well, you know, the history of Latinos in the US is not complete and many of us

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don't know the exact contributions Latinos have made to make in this country. Great. And I think that the impact that we're making now

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is all of that is coming into light. Inclusive of what our founding fathers have done, which they're great. Many of us my age don't really know.

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Unless you go to college, you don't get that information in grade school. And I think that what

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many Latinos are starting to do is to, is to educate everyone. What Latinos have done to contribute to the greatness of this country,

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but also the cultural impact. And that although we're culturally different, no matter what nationality you are, We were really the same.

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We want a good quality of life for our, for us and for our families. We want to earn a decent living. And believe it or not,

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many Hispanics do want to learn English. It's just very difficult. But I think that that's the impact that we're making in this country.

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We want to contribute and be a part of this, of this great nation which we've already, we have been, it's just, it's not known how much we have been

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in a part of this country up until now. You see really interested in like connectedness between the statics and Latinas.

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How would you describe the Latino community? And I would say it's diverse. You have Hispanics who don't speak English or don't understand

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the culture, the American culture, then you have Hispanics like myself, who we speak English where we're assimilate, not assimilated, integrated in the community.

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And then you have your Hispanic. They don't know English, Rather they don't know Spanish, they don't know the Spanish culture.

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So we're very diverse within ourselves, let alone trying to sort of like connect with other cultures with which is my passion.

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I like everyone who's at the table to understand or at least try to understand each other, to work together and

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not to feel that we're different, but that were the same. And we just wanted the American Dream. Who is your target audience for?

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My target, target audience, they are Hispanics as well as non Hispanics. And that was done on purpose because I want the two to meet.

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If you don't want them to to to understand each other and know that we, we both, you know, the the, the non-Hispanic

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culture and the Hispanic culture. But whatever we have to offer in a positive light, it can only benefit everyone in Delaware.

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Is your ethnic background and how do you think? Well, I was born and raised in Philadelphia. My parents, both my mom

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and my dad are from Puerto Rico. And I like the fact that they've ingrained the, the Puerto Rican culture

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in me and I've kept it. But I also love that I'm American, I'm I I'm I understand English, I understand how things work you so

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I have the best of both worlds. I guess. You guys know, you guys did a great job.