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NATIONAL
MUJER AWARD
Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch
from Laredo, Texas is this year’s recipient of the National
Mujer Award. She overcame challenges of poverty, discrimination
and illiteracy and is now a successful leader and role model for
her community. Consuelo is known as a charismatic, passionate and
influential speaker and she carries her powerful mission to prepare
tomorrow’s leaders today. Consuelo has dedicated her life
to empowering a new generation of Hispanic leaders and has worked
with over one million children and their parents in the roughest
neighborhoods in America. EAS is not her first success. She is also
a retired Lieutenant Colonel that broke barriers and set records
in the military when she became the highest-ranking Hispanic woman
in the Combat Support Field of the United States Army. With her
dedication to Latino youth and her distinguished military career
she represents the NHLI’s ideal recipient of the 2005 National
Mujer Award.
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REGIONAL
MUJER AWARD
Eva Pagán Hill
is this year’s recipient of the Regional Mujer Award. Eva’s
dedication, selflessness, and inexhaustible service to the Hispanic
community of Central Florida is visible in every sector of her community.
She is a mental health and human services specialist with over fifteen
years of progressive accomplishments, and a Latino advocate from
Orlando, Florida. She also writes a bi-weekly newspaper column on
family strengthening for La Prensa. She is fully committed to helping
the Latino community and exercises her skills and mentorship qualities
as a specialist on behalf of the community. She is a gifted speaker
and writer who maximizes opportunities to carry her community’s
message to everyone with whom she interacts. She is a trusted source
of information and an inspiration to many Latinas and is most deserving
of the 2005 Regional Mujer Award.
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