{"id":11831,"date":"2022-03-23T11:51:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/?p=11831"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:47:45","slug":"ladies-of-latino-memphis-itzel-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/play\/culture\/ladies-of-latino-memphis-itzel-gomez\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies of Latino Memphis &#8211; Itzel Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11830 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Strength-2-300x83.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Strength-2-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Strength-2-768x212.png 768w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Strength-2-800x221.png 800w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Strength-2.png 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>You may know just how hard the Latino Memphis works to support our city\u2019s Latin\/x\/e community, but did you know that there are so many talented women behind the organization\u2019s programs and endeavors? This Women\u2019s History Month, we\u2019re celebrating the women who are dedicated to driving Latino Memphis\u2019 mission!<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11832 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Itzel-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Itzel-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Itzel-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Itzel-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Itzel-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Itzel-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Itzel-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Itzel-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Please share your full name, pronouns, and title!<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Itzel Gomez, She\/They\/Ella, Welcome Specialist at El Centro<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What inspired you to work at Latino Memphis?<\/h2>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have been an advocate for immigration rights since my freshman year of college. I want to use my education and experience to provide the resources and support the undocumented and immigrant community often lacks access to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How do you relate to Latino Memphis&#8217; mission?<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe in our mission to help connect the Latino community to the greater Memphis community. I want the Latino community in this city to feel like Memphis is their home because it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What do you love about what you do?<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love being able to help my community. They have supported me throughout my education and now I want to give back to them. I\u00a0 also enjoy working alongside some really amazing people that are so knowledgeable in their professions. I enjoy the opportunity to learn from them and hear about their work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Tell us a story about a time you saw your work make an impact on the Memphis community<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the greatest impacts my work has made on the Memphis community is the access to needed resources. There are many great resources in our city that sometimes go under the radar, so it is great to see families getting the resources they need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You might also be interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/wearememphis.com\/play\/culture\/how-the-performing-arts-in-memphis-shares-the-citys-soul\/\">The Performing Arts in Memphis: A Celebration of the City&#8217;s Soul<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may know just how hard the Latino Memphis works to support our city\u2019s Latin\/x\/e community, but did you know that there are so many talented women behind the organization\u2019s programs and endeavors? This Women\u2019s History Month, we\u2019re celebrating the women who are dedicated to driving Latino Memphis\u2019 mission! Please share your full name, pronouns,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5452,5481,5500,5505,5425,5306,5494],"class_list":["post-11831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-featured-memphian","tag-latin-owned","tag-latino-memphis","tag-memphis-nonprofit","tag-we-are-memphis","tag-women-owned","tag-womens-history-month"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Itzel Gomez: A Dedicated Advocate for the Latino Community in Memphis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Itzel Gomez: Welcome Specialist at El Centro, dedicated to supporting Memphis&#039; 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