LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – City Councilwoman Christy Martinez-Garcia, a Lubbock native, created a platform for the Latino community after seeing a need for one.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy granddad instilled in me, and that was first God, then family, and never, forget your community,\u201d Martinez-Garcia said.<\/p>\n
For 20 years, she has published \u201cLatino Lubbock<\/a>,\u201d a magazine sharing Hub City news from a Latino perspective.<\/p>\n She also founded the nonprofit \u201cLos Hermanos Familias<\/a>\u201d and community events including the Cinco de Mayo Parade<\/a> and \u201cVamos a Pescar<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Martinez-Garcia sees a change<\/p>\n \u201cI remember the state demographer coming to Lubbock and saying, if you\u2019re not ready for the Hispanic community, now is the time. And we\u2019re strong in business. We are great at, our purchasing power is amazing, and we have so much to give,\u201d Martinez-Garcia said.<\/p>\n Martinez-Garcia says one of her biggest dreams is a community that supports one another, despite different backgrounds.<\/p>\n \u201cDiversity, equity, and inclusion. Those are three words that to some are intimidating, but I think it\u2019s also an opportunity to embrace something different than you. That\u2019s what this country was built on and that\u2019s what this community was built on,\u201d Martinez-Garcia said.<\/p>\n Focus on next generation<\/p>\n Despite the older generation currently holding the baton, Martinez-Garcia wants everyone to pour into the next generation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t just focus on folks that are retired. We need young leadership. They need to also start getting involved. So for me, it\u2019s important that we get them involved in the on our boards and commissions on our Lubbock 101 so they can start learning the ropes,\u201d Martinez-Garcia said.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – City Councilwoman Christy Martinez-Garcia, a Lubbock native, created a platform for the Latino community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-437337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}