(Portland, Ore.)—Dante Perez is one of 32 college students from across the country to earn an internship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute . The sophomore international affairs major will spend this summer in Washington, D.C., working in a congressional office and honing his public leadership skills. A native of Uruapan, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, Perez moved to Oregon as a teenager. As a Mexican-American, he finds it’s important to see Latino leaders at the highest levels of our government and wants to serve as role model for younger Latinos.
Listen to a conversation with Perez and learn about how he is already making a difference in Portland’s Latino community.
