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Los hombres no lloran: Healing Machismo and Empowering Youth on Buford Highway

Los hombres no lloran: Healing Machismo and Empowering Youth on Buford Highway

FromVoices of a Highway


Los hombres no lloran: Healing Machismo and Empowering Youth on Buford Highway

FromVoices of a Highway

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Aug 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, Natalia Garzón sits down with Luis Andrés Andino, a Honduran-American educator who empowers students to seek higher education through his job at the Latin American Association. Luis talks about his childhood along Buford Highway, about his background in Criminal Justice, his desire to empower young students, and how he tackles generational beliefs about machismo and mental health in his own life in order to become a better mentor to young adults in the area. 
If you want to better understand how mental health, toxic masculinity, and COVID has impacted mentoring and youth empowerment, this is an episode for you.
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Released:
Aug 24, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (67)

Voices of a Highway is created and designed by We Love BuHi, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization based in Atlanta that preserves the multicultural identity of Buford Highway. Twice a month, Executive Director Lily Pabian and Director of Development Natalia Garzon open up a space to discover, celebrate and learn directly from local voices and everyday heroes who are making a long lasting impact on Buford Highway. With a monthly theme to guide the conversation, each episode opens the door to the victories and struggles of celebrating and preserving multiculturalism in Atlanta, GA.