Hispanic Leadership Summit at United
Nations Calls Hispanics to Unify
With a mission to use her voice
to build bridges, Claudia Romo
Edelman, founder of the We Are All
Human Foundation, a foundation dedicated to
advancing the agenda of equity, diversity, and
inclusion, has immersed herself in advocacy for
many years.
Romo Edelman’s passion for public service
and advocacy started at a young age while
volunteering to help on the aftermath of the
earthquake in Mexico City. “While on the ground
I heard a voice coming from the rubble,” shares
the Mexican-Swiss Diplomat. “I started shouting
really loud, got the attention of the adults and
together we pushed a rock that had a little girl
trapped. From that experience, I learned that
speaking out is one of the most powerful things
we can do, especially if we use our voice to
convene others to a common and just cause. We
know that people around the world are not being
heard, and in the broadest sense, I have made it
my life’s purpose to listen to their voices and
bring their messages to those who can help
make a difference.”
Advocating for representation and inclusion,
on December 10th, 2018, she demonstrated her
Claudia Romo Edelman, founder of the
We Are All Human Foundation.
passion for public service by hosting the
first-ever Hispanic Leadership Summit at the
United Nations Headquarters in New York where
more than 300 leaders from the worlds of
business, news media, policy and politics
gathered.
The Summit is a nonpartisan event that
plans to go beyond sectoral interests and
insights from the November midterm elections
to discuss and reflect on what unites America's
many Hispanic and Latino communities and what
should be done to ensure their importance to the
United States’s future is understood.
In 2018, she commissioned an online study
with the We Are All Human foundation, which
was conducted by Zeno Group, to see
the outlook that the U.S. Hispanic/Latino
demographic has on the political landscape,
business and education, and personal values.
In October 2018, the Foundation unveiled
the results of its Hispanic Sentiment Study which
was conducted September 15-19, 2018 where
more than 2,500 Hispanics/Latinos, ages
14 and older, across the United States were
surveyed.
According to the Hispanic Sentiment Study
77 percent of Hispanics don’t know their own
power and own contributions. “We have to get
this number down and that’s what our 10x10
campaign is all about,” she states. “The goal
is to have a vision 2020 for the Hispanic
Community, a vision that allows us to fight for
the same things, to sing from the same song
sheet. Hispanics are a powerful but fragmented
community that has yet not realized their own
power and will do so when we stop focusing in
By Gloria Romano-Barrera
Marketing and Re-branding the Hispanic/Latinx Story Panel with Richard Edelman, Susie Jaramillo, Josue Estrada, Maria Lensing,
Jean Malley Vega, moderated by Dario Spina.
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