A Critical Look at Education, Civic Engagement, and Health Issues in the Latino Community: A Call to Latinos in Technology to Do-Good, Build Much Needed Solutions and Close the Gap.

1. SXSW 2014 Latino Insights Panel:
Big Social Issues,
Big Opportunities for Latin@s in Tech
Julie Diaz-Asper
Founding Partner
@JulieDiazAsper
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2. Education
Latino student population has doubled in last
20 years
22% of student population
1 in 4 students is Latino
Source: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb10/vol67/num05/The-Latino-Education-Crisis.aspx
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/08/20/hispanic-student-enrollments-reach-new-highs-in-2011/

3. Education
40% of kindergartners score in lowest percentile on
math and reading
2 grades behind by 4th to 8th grade
4 grades behind for English Language Learners (ELL)
14% of Latino high school students dropout,
double the rate of white students
Dropout rate jumps to 59% among students with
poor English skills
11% less likely to complete a college degree
Source: America's Kindergartners: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, by J. West, K. Denton, and E. Germino-Hausken, 2000, Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. U.S. Department of
Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) ,
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/05/09/hispanic-high-school-graduates-pass-whites-in-rate-of-college-enrollment/

4. Education
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2011/02/09/latinos-and-digital-technology-2010/ http://www.aft.org/yourwork/tools4teachers/hispanic/challenges.cfm
55% versus
75% home
Internet
access
Only 39%
versus 59%
enroll in pre-k
Approx 4 million
are English
Learners
55% versus
85% high school
diplomas for
parents
65% versus
85% had
parents attend
a school
meeting

5. Civic Engagement
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Source: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/11/07/latino-voters-in-the-2012-election/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/national-council-of-la-raza-/the-latino-vote-can-make-
_b_4654424.html
Latinos made up 10%
of the electorate in 2012
In 2014, an estimated
33 races could be
decided by Latino voters

6. Civic Engagement
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Source: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/06/03/inside-the-2012-latino-electorate/
23 million eligible Latino
voters in 2014
12.2 million unregistered
potential for up to 40
million eligible Latino
voters in the next two
decades

7. 2
Source: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/10/01/trends-in-latino-voter-registration/
Cartoon source: http://tntribune.com/politics/voting-suppression-laws-that-make-people-angry/
Help monitor voter
purges and rejected
registrations
Assist on the ground
voter registration drives
Helping Latino voters
understand their rights and
get help
Up to 10 million Latino voters are potentially
impacted my voter suppression
Civic Engagement

8. Health
Roughly 72%* of Latinos are obese or
overweight
65%+* do not participate in any
leisure activity
30% of Adult Hispanics have diabetes
31% of adult Hispanics have heart
disease
http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=54
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/MyHeartandStrokeNews/Hispanics-and-Heart-
Disease_UCM_444864_Article.jsp

9. Health
23% of Latino children are
overweight
22% are inactive compared to
9% non-Hispanic white kids
http://www.parentdish.com/2011/04/13/hispanic-kids-exercise/

10. Health
Get active programs
Wellness and Medical Adherence
Health condition education
Access to culturally relevant and
healthy food and recipes
http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=54
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/MyHeartandStrokeNews/Hispanics-and-Heart-
Disease_UCM_444864_Article.jsp

11. YOUR HELP NEEDED!
LATIN@S in
TECHNOLOGY
HELP CLOSE THE GAPS, DO SOME GOOD!
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