Juana Bordas
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Juana Bordas

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To find out more about Juana Bordas and her company go to: www.Juanabordas.com or her company website www.MestizaLeadership.com Dr. Juana Bordas emigrated to the U.S. from Nicaragua on a banana boat when she was three. The youngest daughter in a family of eight, she was the first to go to college. She learned leadership from her hard-working parents especially her mother, Maria, who cooked food and scrubbed floors in the school lunchroom. Her early years would instill in her a desire to give back and to assist other Latinas find their place in society. Upon graduating from college, she joined the Peace Corps and worked in the barrios of Santiago, Chile assisting women form work cooperatives. Juana later received the Franklin Williams Award from the US Peace Corps for her life-long commitment to advancing communities of color. Juana was a founder and director of Denver's Mi Casa Women's Center recognized as a national model for women's empowerment. She was the founding President of the National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI). In 2002, she founded the Circle of Latina Leadership. For her extensive work with Latinas, she was commended by Latina Style Magazine for creating "a Nation of Latina Leaders" Her book Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age published by Berrett- Koehler won the International Latino Book Award for best leadership book. The Power of Latino Leadership also received the International Latino Book Award and the Nautilus Award for best indigenous book. The 2 nd edition released in 2023 has the word Ahora! in the title - (Now or do it now!) signifying that Latinos today are at the crossroads of power and poised to be leaders of the 21 st Century. Juana was a contributor to the 2015 NY bestseller Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for today’s leaders. She served as advisor to Harvard's Hispanic Journal on Public Policy, the Kellogg National Fellows Program, as vice president of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership and is a trustee of the International Leadership Association. Among her awards: the Wise Woman Award from the National Center for Women's Policy Studies; inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame; The 2019 Life Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association; and selected one of 100 influential Latinos by The National Diversity Council. Juana is President of Mestiza Leadership International (MLI) -- a company that focuses on leadership and diversity. MLI prepares collaborative and inclusive leaders for our multicultural and global age.
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