{"id":14323,"date":"2015-12-08T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T17:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=14323"},"modified":"2016-01-08T11:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:54:34","slug":"veronica-herrera-honored-with-latino-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/veronica-herrera-honored-with-latino-leadership-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Veronica Herrera Honored with Latino Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" data-attachment-id=\"14324\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/veronica-herrera-honored-with-latino-leadership-award\/herrera-chattanoogas-choice-latino-leadership-award-2015\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Herrera-Chattanoogas-Choice-Latino-Leadership-Award-2015.png\" data-orig-size=\"534,234\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Herrera Chattanooga&amp;#8217;s Choice Latino Leadership Award 2015\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Herrera-Chattanoogas-Choice-Latino-Leadership-Award-2015.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14324 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Herrera-Chattanoogas-Choice-Latino-Leadership-Award-2015-300x131.png\" alt=\"Veronica Herrera with students, winning La Paz\u2019s Chattanooga Choice Leadership Award.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Herrera-Chattanoogas-Choice-Latino-Leadership-Award-2015-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Herrera-Chattanoogas-Choice-Latino-Leadership-Award-2015-250x110.png 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/12\/Herrera-Chattanoogas-Choice-Latino-Leadership-Award-2015.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinoleadershipawards.org\/#!veronica-herrera\/cttz\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Veronica Herrera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a woman of many titles. She is a student, educator, alumna, culture philanthropist, and most recently, recipient of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapazchattanooga.org\/english.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">La Paz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapazchattanooga.org\/awards\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chattanooga\u00a0Choice Leadership Award<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I consider myself a culture philanthropist. \u00a0I use my passion for education to promote my culture with the goal of motivating everyone around me to lead<br \/>\npositive lives and to share their culture with others to promote the same kind of growth.\u201d Herrera continued, \u201cIn the classroom I share my native language and a vision for a better tomorrow, in the community I share ideas that make my Latino culture an asset to the teams where I participate, and with my circle of friends and family I share my daily commitment to improving through hard work and trust.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herrera teaches Spanish as an adjunct professor at UTC and at McCallie School. She graduated from UTC with her Masters in Education in 2011. Herrera considers herself a lifelong learner and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Education with a concentration in online learning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI continue to study because it is a positive way to serve as a role model to future generations. \u00a0Our studies are a way to display resilience and commitment to excellency,\u201d Herrera said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When she\u2019s not teaching or studying, Herrera works with local organizations to motivate and promote economical growth in the community with \u201cacts of culture.\u201d \u00a0With <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cneinc.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (CNE), \u00a0she is working with a group to design a new community UN-association for Glenwood, Highland Park, Ridgedale, Missionary Ridge, and the Tunnel Neighborhoods of Brainerd to \u201cexpand beautification and safety in all of the areas as equally as possible.\u201d She is also working with a group to expand a community newsletter through these neighborhoods after the first edition of the Ridgedale LampPost became so popular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herrera is also working with groups to foster relationships in the Chattanooga community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWith <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/habichatt.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habitat for Humanity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> we have a series of signature events planned for the board of directors to meet Chattanoogans with a heart for service and who want to get connected with leaders in the community.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herrera continued, \u201cAdditionally, we have our Network of Multicultural Professional Women that meets once per month to promote diversity at different nonprofits and businesses in Chattanooga.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herrera and her students are encouraging diversity and world peace through<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cisvchattanooga\/timeline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Children\u2019s International Summer Villages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (CISV) Chattanooga with their recent participation in One Day One Goal. They also participated in a hands-on workshop by International PaintPals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe hosted the workshop at McCallie where our 6th graders had the opportunity to draw and color posters about world peace that will be displayed at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. \u00a0Malala [Yousafzai] has requested for children&#8217;s art to be part of the exhibit and we are part of the 200+ pieces that will be sent to the summit from Chattanooga,\u201d Herrera explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Herrera\u2019s fondest memories from working in the community has been watching her students embrace and celebrate culture in Chattanooga.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She explained, \u201cAt Latin Fest last May our middle school students were in charge of playing games in Spanish with children in the community. \u00a0It was a great pleasure to see young culture philanthropist in action; they shared their sports culture with festival participants in Spanish and promoted diversity by embracing our Spanish language as the target language for the festival.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UTC Spanish Professor Veronica Herrera was honored with La Paz\u2019s Chattanooga Choice Leadership Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/veronica-herrera-honored-with-latino-leadership-award\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":858,"featured_media":14324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,61,7712],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","9":"category-faculty-and-staff","10":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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