El Centro de la Raza
February 5, 2020
The Chamber welcomes the keynote address from El Centro de la Raza at our February Meeting & Luncheon. As an organization grounded in the Latino community, El Centro de la Raza’s mission is to build unity across all racial and economic sectors, to organize, empower, and defend our most vulnerable and marginalized populations and to bring justice, dignity, equality, and freedom to all the peoples of the world.
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