Our Mission
HOPE® is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has focused on empowering our communities through advocacy, Latina leadership training, and increasing knowledge on the contributions Latinas have made to advance the status of women for the past 30 years. To date, HOPE’s innovative programming has served 56,000 Latinas statewide and touched the lives of several thousand more.
Chair of the Board
Rosie Arroyo
California Community Foundation
Rosie Arroyo manages programs, initiatives and outreach for the Education & Immigration department of the California Community Foundation.
Arroyo took on the office of HOPE Board Chair in January 2019, where she leads strategies to advance HOPE's mission of ensuring economic and political parity for Latinas.
Board Officers
Helen Iris Torres
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO
(Non-Voting Member)
Vanessa Cajina
SECRETARY
KP Public Affairs
Yammilette G. Rodriguez
1ST VICE CHAIR
Youth Leadership Institute
Elizabeth Atlee
TREASURER
CBRE | Legal
Lupita Sanchez Cornejo
2ND VICE CHAIR
AT&T
Board of Directors
Laura Arciniega
The Raben Group
Lennies Gutierrez
Comcast
Erica Cabrera
PG&E
Nicolina Hernandez
Sempra Energy
Nora Dominguez, Ed.D.
University of La Verne
Evelin Martinez
Bank of America
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Maria Contreras-Sweet
Founding HOPE President
Former Administrator for the U.S. Small
Business Administration
Gilda Bojorquez-Gjurich
Critical Connections
Carmela Locayo
National Association for the Hispanic Elderly
Minnie Lopez-Baffo
SoCalGas (Retired)
Olga E. Moreno
Bona Fide International
Maria Salinas
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
CHAMPIONS OF HOPE (advisory board)
Luisa Acosta-Franco
True North Strategic Consulting
Dolores L. Arredondo
Wells Fargo & Company
Elmy Bermejo
San Francisco Comission on the Environment
Karime Sanchez Bradvica
Karime Bradvica Consulting
Olivia Campos-Bergeron
CBS 2 / KCAL 9
Kim Freeman
USC Dornsife
Anita Gabrielian
CG Benefits
Rossina Gallegos
Union Bank
Maria Gallo
Union Bank (Retired)
Lupita C. Garza
White Memorial Medical Center
Mónica Gil
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises
Lorena Hernandez
Comcast
David Lizarraga
TELACU
Carrie Lopez
Consultant
Lidia S. Martinez
Southwest Airlines
Diane Medina
KABC –TV (Retired)
John Mendez
Mendez Strategy Group
Clara Potes-Fellow
Nonprofit Consultant
Michael Rubio
Chevron
Brissa Sotelo-Vargas
Valero
Cecilia Soto-Loftus, MPH
Elaine Treviño
California Strategic Solutions, Inc
Susan Sifuentes Trigueros
SoCalGas
Arturo Vargas
NALEO
Nora E. Vargas
Southwestern Community College District
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest
Peter R. Villegas
Coca-Cola North America