National Hispanic Institute

10/06/2026

Happy birthday to NHI president and founder Ernesto Nieto!

10/04/2026

NHI@Guatemala members Loreny Valdés, Sara Montenegro (Project Administrator), Jose Andres Montenegro, Shary Flores, and Minerva Urrutia, together during NHI EVP Nicole Nieto's trip to the Central American nation.

10/03/2026

From left to right, Diego Montenegro (NHI parent and volunteer), Jose Andres Montenegro (NHI alum), Santiago Montenegro (LDZ ‘26), Nicole Nieto (NHI EVP), Wilson Siguenza, (Ministerio de Educación - Mineduc), Sebastian Montenegro (NHI alum), and Sara Montenegro (NHI Alliance member in Panama) honor educational leaders in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

10/02/2026

NHI@Guatemala leaders Sara Montenegro and Andrea Lawton, with NHI EVP Nicole Nieto, work to expand NHI’s work in Guatemala during a week-long tour, visiting the U.S. Embassy, Mexican consúltate, and school leaders in Guatemala. NHI volunteers in Guatemala organized the visit to four cities.

10/02/2026

Go to https://nationalhispanicinstitute.org/Annual-Report to download and read the latest about NHI.

09/29/2026

Samantha Lopez-Resendez was inspired by a Texas LDZ program at the Texas State Capitol, feeling that she belonged. She's now five weeks away from the election that could send here there as a state representative.

Check out her story at NHIMagazine.com.

09/25/2026

New at NHIMagazine.com: Learn about our summer interns and their journey at programs and capstone projects.

08/07/2026

Nine different teams — including teams from Guadalajara and Saltillo representing Mexico — participated in the 2026 edition of the Texas Ambassador Great Debate this summer. The program's educational director praised participants for their "commitment to their goals, resilience under pressure, and willingness to challenge not just the world around them but their own assumptions about themselves."

More than 170 students representing seven Texas regions and two regions in Mexico gathered for a four-day competition fostering community.

08/07/2026

We're taking a look back at our summer successes ... here's a look at the Colorado LDZ, with more than 200 students from the U.S. and Mexico converging for eight days of immersive learning.

“The future was our focus: Imagining it, envisioning it, staying laser-focused on neither the present nor the past, but rather the future that, as a community, we could shape, build, and thrive in,” said educational director Julio Cotto of the program.

He then listed qualities that made the 2026 Colorado LDZ special:

"Transnational. Transcultural. Multi-state. Multi-ethnic. Multi-generational. First-time NHI members. Great Debaters. Legacy children of NHIers from decades before. Bicoastal. Multilingual. Creative. Thoughtful. Energized and passionate.”

Colorado State University, a longtime NHI partner brought more than 200 students from the U.S. and Mexico for an energized eight days.

07/24/2026

Here's how to support students at the Texas CWS (in progress now at the University of St. Thomas), now and in the future

An NHI board member is offering a matching $20,000 donation to support its Texas CWS program; donors have until Dec. 31 to fund it.