ImpactoAZ kicks off its second season featuring a discussion with our friend and supporter David López, a law professor with an impressive body of work in employment and civil rights law and considerable knowledge on the workings of the court. Respected civil rights and employment law professor David López recently shared his analysis of three recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions dealing with immigration issues. Two of those decisions may be setting U.S. policy on a dangerous

Playwright James García combed through records, archives, historical documents and oral histories to craft his one-act play on the Legion, with hopes of it turning into a full-length play in 2027. James García, playwright/journalist. One recurring theme playwright James García kept returning to when researching his upcoming one-act play on the founding of the Phoenix-based American Legion Post 41was that the founders and the community that supported their efforts were after e

Gilbert Bailón, a former high-level editor at major newspapers and in public media, talks with ImpactoAZ about his new role at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Gilbert Bailón, deputy director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Gilbert Bailón built a successful journalism career that eventually led to top management roles at the Dallas Morning News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Chicago Public Media. Now he's back with an organization that supp

Mark Magaña, founding president of GreenLatinos, shares how his group serves as a convenor to address climate justice issues, particularly in Latine communities. Mark Magaña, founding president & CEO of Green Latinos, a policy and advocacy group dedicated to climate justice issues. In 2012, Mark Magaña and his wife took their months old daughter to see his dying mother in Los Angeles. She was able to see her, hold her and promise to always watch over her. That promise profoun

Community-based participatory research is the lens through which Ada Wilkinson-Lee, Ph.D., conducts her work. That's not always the case in academic research. Associate professor Ada Wilkinson-Lee, focuses her research on community needs. As an associate professor at the University of Arizona's Mexican-American Studies Department, Ada Wilkinson-Lee, Ph.D., is dedicated to conducating research that is needed by her community. While it sounds intuitive, too often academic resea