Hispanic Access Foundation is honored to announce its partnership with Parks California for the Career Pathways program. Together, with the East Bay Regional Park District, they will create pathways for young Latinos to pursue careers in public lands by placing three talented young Latino professionals in substantive, paid six-month internships with the East Bay Regional Park District in 2025.

Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler (D-CA) and Representative Adam Schiff sent a letter to President Joe Biden, calling for the President to use the Antiquities Act to designate Sáttítla National Monument. In response, Maite Arce, president and CEO of Hispanic Access Foundation, released the following statement:

Hispanic Access Foundation is honored to announce its partnership with the Flagstaff Area National Monuments for the “Flagstaff National Monuments Indigenous Outreach Internship Program” funded by the National Park Foundation. Through the internship program, Hispanic Access hopes to boost leadership capacity among underserved communities and the nation as a whole.

On Monday, August 5, Hispanic Access Foundation joined Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, Acting Deputy Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis, and nationwide conservation leaders to virtually celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), a landmark day for those who tirelessly advocated for permanent, dedicated funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

After graduating from UC Riverside in Fall 2019, I learned I could work for a federal land management agency from a previous supervisor who had participated in an internship with the National Park Service. I became intrigued by the idea of working outdoors.

At a community meeting today hosted by the Department of the Interior, attendees called on President Biden to designate a new Chuckwalla National Monument and protect an area adjacent to Joshua Tree National Park.

Hispanic Access Foundation’s fourth annual Latino Advocacy Week begins on May 20 and runs through May 24, 2024. Latino Advocacy Week was launched in 2021 to help build the capacity and familiarity among Latinos to advocate for themselves, their families, and their communities. This year, for the first time ever, Hispanic Access will partner with the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships to host an in-person National Latino Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C.

African-Americans and Latinos are groups that honor our ancestors, whose origin, roots, and history are strong components of our identity today, and we both are groups that have been minoritized while having a strong presence in coastal regions. Today, 60% of residents in coastal areas of the U.S. identify as Indigenous or people of color. Half of U.S. Latinos live in coastal areas already facing climate change impacts such as increased flooding and more intense hurricanes, which are only exacerbated by the destruction of natural ecosystems such as mangroves and wetlands in the name of "development.”

Hispanic Access Foundation is excited to announce two of our Community Navigator Cultivando: Side by Side cohort participants have been awarded a Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) for round two in the amount of around $250,000 each. Instituto de Avance Integral Latino and Protectores de Cuencas Inc. will use this award to advance their work in wildfire prevention planning.

Hispanic Access is excited to announce the launch of the Conservation Network. Our Conservation Network will connect, build, and empower Latino professionals committed to tackling pressing challenges in land, ocean, and waterways conservation, climate action, and ensuring equitable access to public lands.