New Organization Aims to Boost Latinas to Elective Office

By Jim Trotter, Rocky Mountain PBS

LatinasRepresent, a new grassroots political movement that will seek to build the numbers of Latinas holding elective office, will hold its first Colorado organizational meeting today to set a course and tone for what is being billed as an extended, nationwide campaign.

A joint undertaking by the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda and the organization Political Parity, LatinasRepresents stresses the fundamental disparity in the numbers of those holding elective office.

One of the fastest-growing populations in the United States with a current number of about 25 million Hispanic women, “Latinas are dramatically underrepresented at every level of government: they represent just 1.6 percent of Congress and 1.1 percent of state legislators. Only 78 Latinas serve in state legislatures, nine in Congress, and one as governor,” the organization states.

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Photo by J. Stephen Conn

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