Claudia Romo Edelman

"Every time I went to a restaurant and there was a waiter who was clearly Latino, and I spoke to him in Spanish, he would try to deny his identity, to suppress it"

"I work out with my husband six times a week"

"If you’re Jorge, you pretend to be George, and you leave yourself at home, and you come with someone you don’t know"

"And then I started learning that, in America, they invented a word that means that 26 different countries all of a sudden are one group, and that I was going to belong to that group, and that that group was not terribly well perceived"

"The work that I’m doing is very much inviting companies, decisionmakers, and Latinos everywhere to take action,” she says, “so that we can be seen as what we are: positive contributors to the country"

"Every morning, as I enter the day, I like to outline the three goals I want to achieve"

"We produce these bags and give them to the speakers at our summit with the message: ‘Behind every mask, there’s a human"

"First, address and connect with the audience, then tell a personal story about yourself, deliver your message with one to three points you want to make, then close it with something inspirational"

"Regardless of where I am or what I’m doing, I always have a daily call with my kids"

"At the World Economic Forum in Davos, we saw the president of Microsoft wearing his"

"Being able to speak up for the issues that matter is a privilege"

"This is our time. There is no better time"