Editorial Note
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Informar, Educar, & Unir
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PROUDLY LATINO
- After English, more Alaskans speak Spanish than any other language
- The Anchorage School District teaches more than 5,500 Latino students
- More than 1,100 young Latinos are studying undergraduate courses at UAA
- More than 100 Latino are pursuing postgraduate degrees at UAA
- There are nearly 50 Latino restaurants in Anchorage
- The Latino community produces top athletes, such as the hockey player Scotty Gómez, and recently the champion bodybuilder Sara Nunes
- Alaska has been the home of internationally-known Latino visual artists, such as José Chávez Morado, Mariano González, Indra Arriaga, and Josef Pawlikowski, painters who have exhibited their work in many countries
- Among Latino community leaders is Daniel Esparza, a nominee for the 1993 President’s Volunteer Action Award under Bill Clinton’s Administration