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⇢: Non-profit visionary starts consulting company in her 60sLuz Rodriguez was born to Puerto Rican parents who migrated to NYC in the 1950’s. When she was a young girl growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City, she remembers being taken aback while watching the movie, “Oliver,” and learning that there were children in the world without a home. It became…
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⇢: My father and his replacementsAll through my boyhood, my father worked from early in the morning until late at night. I spent a lot of time missing him. When would he come back, I often wondered. My grandfather fit the bill as my old man for decades. He took me to his office with him, and to baseball games…
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⇢: Danny Trejo busier than ever, but why helping others is most importantWhen you think of Danny Trejo, probably his legendary “tough guy” image immediately comes to mind – with a fiery explosion taking place behind him – like in the “Machete Kills” movie poster. He is one of America’s most hard-working actors, averaging four films a year (usually of the action genre) since the 1990’s. Lately,…
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⇢: Author Francisco Stork: Advice to Young Writers“What advice would you give a writer starting out?” is the question I am always asked at the end of one of my talks to high school students. I have thought about this question long and hard trying to come up with an answer that will be truly helpful. There are so many possibilities. Do…
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⇢: How the film, “Mamacita,” became a lesson on the power of forgivenessIt was a chilly October night when “Mamacita” had its New York premiere at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History. However, Mexico-born and raised filmmaker/director José Pablo Estrada Torrescano warmed the auditorium as he announced his first feature-length film – a documentary about his grandmother, a self-made entrepreneur who…