Throughout history we have heard about racial profiling and discrimination by law enforcement officers against Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) The Latino community does not escape this situation when they report arbitrary detentions, excessive use of force, and deportations.
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Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER) designed and applied this Creando Ando Program in Rochester to increase self-confidence and foster an entrepreneurial mindset among the Latino community of Rochester.
For the development of the project, we designed three workshops utilizing the Design Thinking model, which refers to the cognitive, strategic and practical processes by which design concepts are developed. Due to COVID- 19, all workshops were conducted via zoom.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had sweeping economic repercussions. Evidence shows it has had disparate effects on both minority populations and people of color. To measure the economic impact of the pandemic on Latino-owned businesses in Minnesota, Hispanic Advocacy and
Community Empowerment through Research (HACER) and the University of Minnesota’s Extension Center for Community Vitality conducted both a qualitative and quantitative survey
to better understand how Latino owned businesses have fared since
he pandemic’s onset.
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