2026 LULAC National Convention

This session takes a clear look at the role women have played in LULAC from the beginning to now. Latinas have shaped this organization in ways that were not always visible, but always central to its work. It also confronts the harder truth that this history includes moments of exclusion and machismo that limited women’s roles and recognition. That history matters because it explains where we are and what has been built. The focus then turns forward, on how that leadership continues and how the next generation is prepared to step in and carry it on.