The new year will mark 40 years of a non-profit statewide organization that celebrates the values and contributions of Hispanic heritage.<\/p>\n
As 2025 comes to an end, the Hispanic Women’s Network of Texas honored those doing something to impact their communities.<\/p>\n
The Arlington and Fort Worth chapters recently gathered for a joint virtual watch party for the HWNT State Estrella Awards ceremony. The yearly event recognizes the stars who have made substantial contributions to their local chapters and communities.<\/p>\n
Ruth Barajas Assi co-founded the Arlington chapter. She’s a social worker who supports Latinas and women of color and helps break stigma and open doors for healing.<\/p>\n
Renee Perez of Fort Worth was recognized for mentoring and guiding young Latinas through their academic and personal development.<\/p>\n
“We were honored to gather as sister chapters to celebrate not only these two incredible women, but all of our State Estrellas shining across Texas,” Amanda Arizola told NBC 5 in an email. “Moments like these remind us of the power of connection, celebration, and lifting one another as we lead.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new year will mark 40 years of a non-profit statewide organization that celebrates the values and contributions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,5262],"class_list":["post-99858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-something-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99858","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=99858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}