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VivirLatino is a daily publication, featuring all the latest in Latino style, products, entertainment, culture, and politics created for the diverse and influential Latino and Latina community in the U.S.

This site was publicly launched on October 12, 2005, Día de la Raza (Día de la Hispanidad) by Blogs Media, a company specializing in nanopublications, blog services and blog consulting.

Why a Blog for the Latino Community in the U.S?

VivirLatino was created for and is written with second and third generation Latinos in the U.S. in mind who, regardless of their country of origin, have a shared vision, language, and goals that have made them the one of the most dynamic "minorities" in the country.

VivirLatino covers a broad spectrum of Latino life in the U.S. with editors in two states with large Latino presences: California and New York.

The editors of VivirLatino contribute a modern Latino vision. With their own unique voices and a touch of Spanglish, the editors claim their own individual identities, while recognizing and reaffirming, without exclusions, the multitude of cultures, aspirations, and dreams that exist within the larger community.

VivirLatino is the debut blog for Blogs Media.

Managing Editors

Jennifer Woodard Maderazo

Jennifer is a communications and marketing consultant, blogger and amateur photographer. Born in Baton Rouge and transplanted to Houston, Jennifer later ventured off to film school in Mexico City, where she lived five happy years, only to cruzar el charco to Spain to finish off her studies with a Masters in Documentary from the University of Barcelona. Both as a blogger and a consultant, Jennifer's opinions have been featured in Business Week, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, among other publications, on topics related to the Latino community, technology and marketing. In addition to VivirLatino, she also blogs about new media and the Internet on PBS MediaShift, a blog which tracks the way technology is changing the face of media.

Jennifer's photos on Flickr

Maegan "la Mamita Mala" Ortiz

Photo%202.jpg Maegan is a Queens born and bred Nuyorican mami, Espanglish poeta, freelance writer, blogger, and all around rabble rouser.

La Mala has traveled between Puerto Rico and New York City her entire life, stopping for a brief time to live in Chile. She's spent many years working on grassroots activist campaigns around such issues as police brutality, racial violence, and radical mamihood.

Her words and opinions have been featured in the Washington Post, Latina Magazine, The New York Daily News, and National Public Radio.

When she's not blogging here, she's shamelessly exhibiting herself on her personal blog Mamita Mala, writing for magazines/websites, working on a book or two, and spitting poesia in clubs in NYC, dragging her daughters behind her.

Maegan's photos on Flickr

Editors

La Macha

lamachaLa Macha is a blogger, una mujerista, and a queer chicana. She has blogged at multiple political sites for the past three years, and remains committed to community driven social justice centered media. La Macha blogs about everything from revolution in Oaxaca to women of color led movement making to Salma Hayek. In La Macha's spare time, she is an amateur photographer, an academic, and twitter addict.

Guest Editors

Estevan Montemayor - DNC Student Correspondent

me.jpgI live in San Diego, California and I am a Student at Canyon Crest Academy. I am very interested and involved in politics. I was selected by my city government to be a member of the Youth Commission. The Youth Commission aids the city government with proposals and advise for youth related issues. I also am a member of the California Young Democrats and Young Democrats of America. I volunteer for many political campaigns , most recently the Hillary Clinton campaign. I will be going to the 2008 Democratic National Convention as a Student Correspondent and a Student Ambassador to my states delegation.I try to fight as much as i can for Hispanics rights in my area. I am first generation American and i believe in full equality for all.I volunteer for the North County Latinas Association. I was the first male to join. We try to spread inspiration to young Latinas and their families to change their life and to get education's and love up the social ladder I try to encourage all my peers to get involved with their government and to make a change or else it will never change. The youth of this country are the the next generation to change our country i advise you to get involved and change!

Other Mentions

The VL team would like to send special thanks to Rebecca Carter who was an initial VL editor and to Gustavo Rojo, Amaury Nora, Marco F. Navarro, and Cindy Mosqueda who acted as guest editors. VL is a team effort and we couldn't have done it without them.

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