Jacqueline Cardenas

3 weeks ago | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

The first time Kimberly Riquelme had a child was at 19. It was also the first time she experienced homelessness all by herself. In 2022, she left the student housing she lived in while attending nursing school in Illinois and cut ties with her daughter’s abusive father. She tried to find a bigger space to raise her daughter Jazmine, but she often had to switch between shelters, people’s couches, hotel rooms, and even her grandmother’s car.

1 month ago | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

Ericka Verba’s love for Chilean singer Violeta Parra began in high school in the 1970s when a Chilean family moved into her quiet hometown in Massachusetts. “They were very exciting. They were artists and musicians,” the director and professor of Latin American Studies at California State University said with a smile.

2 months ago | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and other city officials met at St. Anthony’s in the Tenderloin Thursday for a town hall meeting to discuss the next steps in addressing homelessness and drug use, yet most of the town was absent. “We are going to be relentless about making sure that our streets are safe, that they are clean, and that we get people the help that they need,” Lurie said to an invite-only crowd of around 50 people, mostly non-profit heads and some local residents.

Mar 6, 2025 | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

The number of migratory monarch butterflies that winter in California and inhabit the western Rocky Mountains has significantly decreased, according to a recent report. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation recorded only 9,119 monarchs, the second worst year in the organization’s count. This is an approximately 96 percent decline from last year’s count of 233,394 butterflies at 256 California overwintering sites.

Feb 24, 2025 | latinonewsnetwork.com | Jacqueline Cardenas

During a graduation ceremony in 2017, Laura C. Chávez-Moreno was “struck” when an Amlie High School student gave a speech highlighting their classes’ diversity as their strength. Yet none of the students who stepped up to the podium were Latinx, and only one was Black. Nor was there any mention of the high school’s dual language program despite having a 21% Latinx/Hispanic population, the author and assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) said.