"Empowering Hispanic youth and creating a pipeline of future Hispanic leaders is critically important to our democracy and I’m proud to lead a foundation committed to those goals."

"It was not difficult for me to want to become a part of the HNBF. Everything I have is the result of my education. Joining an organization with a stated mission to ‘help Hispanics achieve their potential through access to higher education’ was a very easy decision for me."

"The enthusiasm of the students always takes me back to the beginning, my own beginning, and reminds me of why I wanted to be a lawyer in the first place. I come back ready to face the world again with new enthusiasm, seeing our world and our profession as they do; a place where we can and do make a difference, one case at a time."