When it comes to sitting on a San Jose nonprofit board, Hispanics and Latinos are still being ignored—even though they are more than a third of the city’s population. Data collected by Latinos LEAD highlights this disparity, showing that Latinos make up only 12.5% of nonprofit board members in the San Jose metro area, which includes Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. The underrepresentation is linked to limited access to professional networks for Latinos and a lack of targeted recruitment efforts by these organizations. Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, said a lack of Latinos or minorities…
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