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💕 Building Community at La Casa Latina Looks Like…
Getting your questions answered
The Center regularly hosts 15-to-20-minute conversations—known as “lightning talks”—led by their student workers that tackle frequently asked questions. Topics covered range from navigating social and academic life at Penn to exploring career paths and connecting with graduate students and faculty across campus.
Celebrating Hispanic Excellence
La Casa Latina hosts yearly Latinx/e Heritage Month celebrations. For example, during The Procession of Flags students, staff, and community members carry flags from Latin America and the Caribbean countries representing their heritage and the diversity of the Latinx community at Penn through heart of campus. In addition, at the 2023 Dolores Huerta Lecture, Melissa Gallardo, founder and CEO of Bonita Fierce Candles, shared her experiences being Latin@ and American and described the life-long struggle to navigate language, culture, and heritage as a brown, non-Spanish-speaking Latina).
The Center regularly hosts 15-to-20-minute conversations—known as “lightning talks”—led by their student workers that tackle frequently asked questions. Topics covered range from navigating social and academic life at Penn to exploring career paths and connecting with graduate students and faculty across campus.
Celebrating Hispanic Excellence
La Casa Latina hosts yearly Latinx/e Heritage Month celebrations. For example, during The Procession of Flags students, staff, and community members carry flags from Latin America and the Caribbean countries representing their heritage and the diversity of the Latinx community at Penn through heart of campus. In addition, at the 2023 Dolores Huerta Lecture, Melissa Gallardo, founder and CEO of Bonita Fierce Candles, shared her experiences being Latin@ and American and described the life-long struggle to navigate language, culture, and heritage as a brown, non-Spanish-speaking Latina).
