Greetings,
Comadres!
Many thanks to
Kimberly Hernandez and Univision for hosting us this month.
We
are excited about our return to Univision and the launch of the “Chatting
with Las Comadres” information series for Comadres by Comadres. Our
first chat is about Career Services; our speakers are JULIE ANNA ALVAREZ, Director of Alumni
and International Career Services, Columbia Law School, and VANESSA PETERS, Human Resources
Specialist with Michael Kors USA, Inc.
Julie Anna Alvarez is
the new Director of Alumni and International Career Services at the Office of
Career Services and Professional Development at Columbia Law School. She has
been a law school career services professional for 11 years (having previously
worked at Fordham and Cardozo) providing counseling and strategy to students
and graduates at all stages in their careers. Her work in the academic setting
has included helping her constituencies with resumes, cover letters, job search
strategies, interviewing, networking and more. Throughout her career, she has
also often been involved in the hiring process of her employers, screening
resumes and interviewing candidates for open positions, so she has an insider
perspective. Julie Anna was elected to the Board of Directors of NALP (National
Association for Law Placement -- the industry organization for all major law
schools and legal employers) for the 2016-2018 term. Julie Anna received her BA
from Harvard University and her law degree from Harvard Law School. She began
her legal career at the firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore as a corporate
attorney, later transitioned to a boutique firm to practice Copyright/
Trademark/ Entertainment Law. Thereafter, she pursued various “alternative
legal career” opportunities including six years as the Assistant Director of
the Legal Referral Service at the NYC Bar Association. In 2000 she also became
a certified Feng Shui consultant and ran a full-time consultant practice from
2001 to 2006, a business which she now maintains on a part-time basis. She has
been a NYC Comadre for 7 years or more (but who’s counting?!).
Vanessa Peters is
a Human Resources Specialist with Michael Kors USA Inc. She has been an
HR professional for the past 9 years. She started her career in human
resources by working her way up through the ranks at Crate & Barrel.
She has experience in resume review, interviewing and training. She has a
BA from the City College of New York in English and Art and a Certificate in
Compensation and Benefits from Baruch College. Vanessa Is also a writer
and freelance artist of Puerto Rican descent. As a writer, she is
currently working on her first multi-cultural romance novel. She also
works out of her home as a freelance artist, her work focuses on both
abstract/ impressionist paintings and drawings of the human form and
figure. Vanessa has been a NYC Comadre for 7 years.
We thank Julie Anna and Vanessa for sharing their knowledge with us, and
thank all of you for attending. (Their handout on Career Services is at the end
of this newsletter.)
Please check the Calendar of Events and Announcements below. Join
us for all or any of the events, and Happy Summer!
Las Comadres
Facilitators
Maria, Raesha,
Gladys & Miriam
Las Comadres
Book Club Discussion Leaders
Maria, Dora
Maria, Nicole & Tess
CALENDAR &
ANNOUNCEMENTS
July
18 (Tues) – Comadres & Friends Book Club, 6:00pm, The Strand, 12th Street
& Broadway, 2 floor. Join
us for the Book Club meeting even if you don’t finish the book. Our book of the
month is ALL THAT GLITTERS by Liza Treviño (Koehler Books). It’s all
about sex, drugs and Hollywood dreams of Latinas in the 1980s. And check
out the Comadres Summer Reading List below.
July
19 (Wed) – Theatre Outing with Las Comadres, Acorn Theatre, 410 W. 42nd Street
--6:00pm:
Dinner at Gallo Nero Italiano. If you would like to join us just for dinner,
email Maria at
ferrerm@aol.com.
--8:00pm--Temple
of the Souls is a musical about Puerto Rico; tickets available online at
www.nymf.org
July
28 (Fri) – Outing at 6:30pm at High Line at Gansevoort Street, 820 Washington
Street
August 9 (Wed)
– Comadrazo Meeting at AARP, 6:00pm.
SUMMER READING
LIST!
Our book club is 10- years- old this year. We
are super excited, and will be giving away prizes (aka free books) at the
monthly book club meetings so do attend and bring reader friends. To celebrate,
we have released our 3rd Annual Summer Reading List; see below.
We want everyone reading Latino Lit this summer!
1. All
That Glitters by Liza Treviňo (Koehler Books, women's fiction)
2. All
the Agents & Saints by Stephanie Elizondo Griest (University of North
Carolina Press, memoir)
3. Blood’s
Echo by Isabella Maldonado (Midnight Ink, mystery)
4. Bravo!
Poems About Amazing Hispanics by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt & Co.,
children's book, poetry)
5. Certain
Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Thomas Dunne Books, horror)
6. Everything
That Could Not Happen Will Happen Now by Alberto Ramirez (Floricanto Press,
fiction)
7. History
Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (Penguin/Soho Teen, fiction, LGBT)
8. Labyrinth
Lost by Zoraida Cordova (Sourcebooks Fire, fiction, young adult)
9. Like
Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Doubleday, classic, magical realism)
10. Self
Made by Nely Galán (Spiegel & Grau, women and business, motivational)
11. The
Cruel Country by Judith Ortiz Cofer (University of Georgia Press, memoir)
12. The
Enchilada Queen Cookbook by Sylvia Casares (St. Martin’s Griffin, cookbook)
13. With
the River on Our Face by Emmy Pérez (University of Arizona Press, poetry)
COMADRES FUN
FRIDAYS ON FACEBOOK! Like our
Facebook Page—@LasComadresNYCNetwork.
JOB
OPPORTUNITIES! Please
remember to let us know of any job opportunities, volunteer positions or
upcoming events you come across that would be of benefit to a fellow Comadre. We
will gladly share through the list serv.
QUOTE
OF THE MONTH
DEFINE
GOAL
TAKE
ACTION
STAY
FOCUSED
EXPECT
SUCCESS
NOTHING
LESS
---Michele Ruiz
