In the News

• The Mexican Tourism Board recently awarded Mary J. Andrade, author and travel editor and the co-publisher of the bilingual California newspaper La Oferta, with a 2006 Silver Lens Award (Lente de Plata) for her bilingual Day of the Dead website, ww.dayofthedead.com, or www.diadelosmuertos.com. The award recognizes writers, photographers, website-creators, and filmmakers whose work represents the tourist appeal of Mexico. Submissions were evaluated based on their effectiveness in conveying such aspects of Mexican culture as the the country’s history, cuisine, and art. “We were very impressed with the quailty of this year’s entries,” said Mexico Tourism Board CEO, Magdalena Carral. “After a difficult judging process, we felt the winners captured the essence of Mexico through their words and images.”

• Monica Lozano, publisher of La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States, has been nominated to the board of directors of Bank of America. Nominations will be confirmed in April at Bank of America’s annual shareholders meeting. Lozano is also senior vice president of Impremedia LLC and chairwoman of the National Council of La Raza.

Andrean Colón-Padilla

Andrean Colón-Padilla is definitely someone to watch in the technology field. In fact, she was recently recognized at the National Women of Color Technology Awards Conference as a Rising Star of Technology. The award recognizes technical accomplishments as well as professional and community leadership in women of color under the age of 30; it was presented at an awards ceremony, held Oct. 21, 2005, in Atlanta. Colón-Padilla is an engineer at MITRE.
The annual National Women of Color Technology Awards Conference is sponsored by Career Communications Group Inc. (CCG).
“It was such an honor to just be nominated by MITRE for the Women of Color Technology Rising Star Award, yet I was fortunate to receive the award on behalf of minority women engineers,” says Colón-Padilla.
Colón-Padilla joined MITRE, a not-profit company specializing in providing systems engineering, research and development, and information technology support to the government, in 2002. She is currently a lead network and distributed systems engineer for the Enterprise Services Systems Engineering department in MITRE’s Washington Command, Control, and Communications Center.
“I enjoy my work with MITRE not only for the culturally sensitive work environment but also for the people I collaborate with on a daily basis,” says Colón-Padilla, who is also currently working toward her master’s of science in systems engineering at George Mason University.

Jenny Sevilla Korn

Jenny Sevilla Korn, born in Los Angeles, was the first in her family to graduate college. And she didn’t stop there. Korn has racked up a long list of impressive job titles and responsibilities, including deputy director of the Department of Justice Office of Public Liaison under Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales. In that position, she worked with law enforcement and Hispanic organizations on issues such as the Patriot Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Korn has also served as a national Hispanic director in President George Bush’s re-election campaign, helping to ensure Bush’s 44 percent of the Hispanic vote and organizing his nationwide “Viva Bush” effort. In addition, she has served as executive director of the Santa Ana, Calif., nonprofit Lincoln Juarez Opportunity Center, and she has a decade of experience of legislative work and of running local, state, and federal political campaigns in California under her belt.
Today, Korn is the associate director at the White House Office of Public Liaison, serving as the liaison between the White House and women and the Hispanic community. Her husband, Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Storment, is currently serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq.