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In October,
DaimlerChrysler Corporation and
the National Association of
Minority Media Executives named
Tina Cartagena as a fellow of
their joint Leadership in
Diversity and Communications
program. Cartagena is the
development director for KUVO
Public Radio in Denver, Colo.
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The American
Women in Radio and Television’s
Philadelphia/Tri-State Chapter
inducted Emilia Andrews as its
president in October. Andrews,
vice president and senior
producer at Beholder Productions,
will serve a one-year term.
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 Rosie
Saez
Rosie Saez has been named director
of diversity integration practices
in Wachovia’s Leadership Practices
Group; she also holds the title of
senior vice president. Saez has been
with the Wachovia Corporation since
1989 in various positions, including
human resources manager and, most
recently, regional community
development manager.
Saez also serves the community in
various capacities, at local and
national levels. She is a member of
the Corporate Advisory Board for the
National Society of Hispanic MBAs,
chairperson of the New Brunswick
Tomorrow’s board of directors, a
trustee of Thomas Edison State
College, and a member of the
National Big Brothers/Big Sisters
Hispanic Advisory Council. She also
serves on Wachovia’s Corporate
Diversity Council.
Saez has been recognized as one of
Pennsylvania’s 50 Best Women in
Business, as a Perth Amboy Chamber
of Commerce’s Business Executive of
the Year, and as an Urban Financial
Services Coalition’s Financial
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Julie
Chavez Rodriguez
In October, Julie Chavez Rodriguez
received a $25,000 grant from the
Kellogg Company on behalf of the
Cesar E. Chavez Foundation. The
grant will help fund the
foundation’s “Educating the Heart”
school program, a comprehensive
service-learning program that
integrates academic study with
service to enrich learning and
character development.
 Chavez
Rodriguez is the foundation’s
programs director and the
granddaughter of late civil-rights
and farm-labor leader Cesar Chavez,
as well as the daughter of United
Farm Workers of America president
Arturo Rodriguez. She has worked
with the foundation for four years,
spearheading its educational and
service program, called the National
Youth Leadership Initiative. Chavez
Rodriguez says that, like her
grandfather, she believes that “the
end of all education should surely
be service to others.” |
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Carrie
Zayas
As PNC Bank’s first Hispanic
segment manager, Carrie Zayas is
responsible for outreach to PNC’s
Hispanic customer base, as well as
for facilitating the banking process
to ensure its accessibility for
Spanish-speaking customers.
Zayas has been with PNC since 1997;
in 2002, she led the development of
a Spanish-language toll-free
telephone line, 1-866-HOLA-PNC. In
her previous position at PNC as
special project manager for the
Hispanic marketing program, Zayas
organized outreach to the Pittsburgh
Hispanic community, including the
development of a Spanish-language
PNC website.
Active in the Hispanic community,
Zayas leads a library-based Spanish
story hour for children, and she
participates in the Pittsburgh
Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber
of Commerce. “At PNC, we are very
committed to serving the communities
in which our employees and customers
live, work and play,” Zayas says. |
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[This article has been edited
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