Latina Youth Leadership Conference is an annual event our chapter organizes and leads, with the goal of providing educational, professional, and well-being resources for Latina girls.

Date: May 21, 2022
Time: 9am - 2pm

While LYLC 2022's main audience is high school students and first-year college students, in the past we have included elementary and middle school aged girls, as well all genders. This year, we are collaborating with San Francisco State University's Alpha Eta and CSU East Bay's Alpha Tau chapters.

While all our previous LYLC's have been in person, LYLC 2022 is virtual for everyone's safety.

Registration opens April 22, 2022. Registration is a short google form that asks for basic student information, parent information, and conference workshop preferences. Upon submitting the registration form, students will receive an email with a Liability Release Form and a Media Release Form. Students will need to fill out these two permission forms to be accepted as a conference participant.
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Registration will close once 50 participants sign up or--at the latest--on May 10, 2022.
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Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca is the Founder and CEO of DREAMers Roadmap, a mobile app platform that helps undocumented students navigate the necessary resources to access higher education. This is Sarahi’s project for the past 5 years within a longer trajectory of activism within and for the undocumented community, which has placed her in the spotlight of continued conversations centered on national immigration policy.Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca is a White House Champion of Change recipient  (2014), has received 4 House of Representatives Awards, and was named in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2016. A former undocumented student who once had to drop out of school to support her family, Sarahi’s personal experience informs her unwavering vision: to help hundreds of thousands of students eliminate educational barriers to success and achieve their full potential. In 2020 Sarahi directed two major campaigns serving minorities. #FirstOfTheMonth where she and two other local organizations came together and raised 2.4 million dollars to help the most vulnerable of our neighbors of color who were impacted by Covid-19. The other #Supplies4FarmWorkers a grassroots community-led campaign organized by 100% volunteers. Serving families affected by the California fires and Covid19. Distributions occurred at farmworker camps and fields. The items given were backpacks, school supplies, PPE, Food and other essentials.  More recently Sarahi joined Youth Community Service as the LEARN (Leading Engagement for AntiRacism, Now!) Commission Manager where she along with 12 local BIPOC youth will work on a year-long project to recommend new policy changes that would address and move towards a more welcome environment for BIPOC in Mid-Peninsula schools. Sarahi recently got admitted into Santa Clara University where she will be Majoring in Ethnic Studies and getting a double minor in Business and Computer Science.

Workshop Session 1 focuses on finding and pursuing education and leadership opportunities. Workshop Session 2 emphasizes prioritizing mental health. Each workshop session has 3 options of groups that students can rank their preferences in their registration form. We will try to sort students accordingly, with workshops being capped at limited availability.

Workshop Session 1: How to Choose and Pay for College- led by Alpha Eta Chapter
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Workshop Session 1: Research in College - led by Chi Chapter's Ximena Sanchez Martinez
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Workshop Session 1: How to Start Your Own Non-Profit - led by Selaine Rodriguez, Stanford University Co-Founder and Director of Outreach of Lower Valley Scholars Foundation
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Workshop Session 2: How to Tell Your Story - led by Myriam Leon
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Workshop Session 2: That's What Makes You Beautiful - led by Alpha Tau Chapter