The Latino Alumni Society of the Arkansas Alumni Association hosted its annual Méritos Latinos awards recognition and scholarship annual event recently at the Hilton Garden Inn.
The University of Arkansas Latino Alumni Society supports Latinos within the University of Arkansas community through scholarships, networking, mentoring and providing community support.
Méritos Latinos is the society’s signature event. The 2018 awards and honorees are:
Violeta Lorenzo Feliciano (in photo) is an assistant professor of Spanish, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Science.Lorenzo Feliciano began working at the University of Arkansas in 2014. She teaches courses on Latin American & US Latinx literature and cultures in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures.
Recently, Lorenzo Feliciano was one of the faculty members behind the project to grant in-state tuition during 2018 for students displaced by Hurricane María.
Juan Carlos Balda is University Professor, department head and Twenty-First Century Leadership Chair in Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, College of Engineering. Balda joined the University of Arkansas in July 1989. He is currently an associate director for applications of the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission and campus director for the NSF IUCRC Grid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the Power Electronics and Industry Applications Societies, and the honor society Eta Kappa Nu.
Kathryn Sloan is associate dean of humanities, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Sloan is a Latin Americanist who specializes in the social and gender history of modern Mexico. She recently completed her third book, a social and cultural study of suicide in modern Mexico entitled Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017).
The Consulado de México en Little Rock advances the community by serving the community of Mexicans and all Latinos in Arkansas with the educational opportunities, outreach, advocacy, and community protection. From Little Rock and through their traveling consulate services, the Consulado de México reaches families throughout Arkansas, Western Tennessee, and Eastern Oklahoma. Recognizing the significance of the Latino community to Northwest Arkansas, in September 2017, Cónsul Quilantán Arenas celebrated el acto cívico for Mexican Independence Day in Springdale for the first time in Arkansas history.
Each year the society distributes four scholarships. Cecilia Grossberger-Medina, the society president, and the Latino Alumni Society Board recognize the accomplishments of outstanding individuals and organization’s along with their commitment and dedication to the Latino community.
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