March: “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”

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Parriva celebrates Latina women on this Women History Day

Women History Day began on February 28, 1909 in New York City, commemorating the 15,000 women who protested against poor labor conditions in lower Manhattan.
Decades later, in 1978, a school district in Sonoma, California, decided to honor the achievements of women by organizing a Women’s History Week event.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter declared the week of March 8 as “Women’s History Week” nationwide.
Finally, in March 1987, Congress declared March as Women’s History Month.
The National Women’s History Alliance, which spearheaded the movement for March being declared National Women’s History Month, has announced the women’s history theme for 2023, “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”
Throughout 2023, the NWHA will encourage recognition of women, past and present, who have been active in all forms of media and storytelling including print, radio, TV, stage, screen, blogs, podcasts, and more. The timely theme honors women in every community who have devoted their lives and talents to producing art, pursuing truth, and reflecting the human condition decade after decade.

MARIA ELENA SALINAS

In the course of her career, Salinas has covered many of the top stories of the day and has been recognized for her work as a journalist and philanthropist. She was named in 2006 as the “Voice of Hispanic America” by the New York Times.
Salinas began her journalistic career as a reporter and anchor for KMEX-34, the Los Angeles affiliate of Univision, in 1981. Renowned for her reporting on the impact of the daily news on the growing Hispanic community in Southern California, she took over the leadership of the National Spanish-language news program Noticiero Univision in 1987.
As a host she has conducted high-profile interviews with prominent world figures, ranging from Latin American Heads of State to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation with its spokesman Subcomandante Marcos and every US president since Jimmy Carter. She has also interviewed famous people, such as Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, and Gloria Estefan.
Salinas has reported both nationally and internationally on topics ranging from the plight of refugees and immigrants, elections around the world, dictatorships, drug traffickers, Latin American guerrilla insurgencies, and natural catastrophes including the earthquake. Haiti in 2010 and the tornadoes that swept through Oklahoma in 2013. Salinas was one of the first female journalists to report from the streets of Baghdad.
In 2004, Salinas moderated the Democratic Party’s first bilingual presidential debate on Hispanic issues, and three years later she co-hosted the first-ever Spanish-language Democratic and Republican forums broadcast on the network. Univision.
She is valued for her knowledge and experience in Hispanic issues, she has been interviewed by notable journalists such as Katie Couric and Bill Moyers, among others.
She also served as a columnist, her work in both English and Spanish has been distributed by King Features Syndicate.