SAVE THE DATE: November 6, 2026
Location To Be Announced
LLEAD 2026 STATEWIDE CONFERENCE
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LLEAD MICHIGAN 2024 STATEWIDE CONFERENCE
The 2024 Conference was a well-attended, successful event and in the books! Registration attendance exceeded the number expected by attendees from around the state.
Plenary Sessions:
–Honoring Legacy Juan Marinez, (LLEAD Michigan Board Director)
-Merging Generations Yesenia Murillo, (Mid-MI LLEAD Chair and 2024 Conference Planning Committee Chair)
Guest Poet Cruz Villarreal, presented a new poem that he composed and dedicated to the LLEAD conference and those in attendance
Workshops and sessions included:
–Latina Women Monica Hernandez, (Delta College – Saginaw), Macaela Glasheen (Kalamazoo, Young Entrepreneur), Melissa Saucedo (Saginaw Team One Credit Union), Linda Delgado-Kipp (Lansing Latino Health Alliance), Diana Rivera, (LLEAD) and Inocencia Ramirez-Gorski (Graphic Artist, Adrian)Dr. Isabel Montemayor-Vasquez, (Executive Director, Hispanic Latino Commission of Michigan)
-Libraries and Latino Education Elena M. Herrada, (Adjunct Faculty Wayne County CC instructor, Former Detroit Public Schools Board of Trustee), Sheila Contreras (PhD Associate Professor, College of Arts & Letters – MSU)
-Banking The Unbanked Kim Scofield, (Community Relations Director, Team One Credit Union), Christiana Malacara (Chair, LLEAD Saginaw), Rene Torres (Owner of T and S Construction), Andrea Paschall (Community member)
-Preserving Nuestra Historia Juan Marinez (LLEAD Board Member), Tobi Voigt (Director of Museums, Michigan History Center), Mark Harvey (State Archivist, Archives of Michigan)
-The Lives of LGBTQ Latinx Lorenzo Casanova, Ph.D. Candidate, (Invited speaker -Texas Christian University), Lorenzo Lopez, (Former Suits and the City Chair, LGBTQ+ Advocate), Socorro Sevilla, (LLEAD Michigan Board Director and LGBTQ+ Committee Chair)-Latino Seniors Annette Gamez, (Regional Aging Representative at Michigan Department of Health and Human Services-Bureau of Aging), Heather Feres-Cordero, (Community Engagement and Development Specialist at Tri-County Office on Aging)
For more information, please contact: Alberto Flores at LLEADMICHIGAN@GMAIL.COM or call 517.515.9800