San Antonio’s Hispanic Family Owned Newspaper VOL. 1 • NUM 16 www.LaPrensaTEXAS.com 30 de Septiembre de 2018 Cover Art by Amber Navarro In this Issue You’re Doing Latinas in Science Mariachi Vargas Voting Schedule Advice for Women Great Sweet Tea Extravaganza How to Register Business Owners Exhibition Opening Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 8 Page 12 2 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 30 de Septiembre de 2018 This grassroots publication is the life Let’s talk about it… Vote Latino source for a community that is not easily afforded viable access to diverse and ac- “Latino voters should nev- think? Let’s talk about it.... one with the right cessible media. San Antonio and the sur- er, ever, vote against a Latino policies and you rounding counties have become accustomed to relevant news brought to them in both politician simply because Ernest Paz: Let’s vote for know will do what English and Spanish since 1913. he is Latino. They will do Pedro is best for the dis- for their people. We need to Barbara Ann Mendoza trict, state, country, Steve A Duran Sr CEO/Publisher build our people up!” This Mead :It doesn’t matter what etc. was said to me in a conver- race. Latinos aren’t always Noel Tello: I Ramon Chapa Jr sation today. I was surprised for Latinos once they’re in thinks it’s cultural. Co-Publisher because I really didn’t be- power... Vote for the man/ There’s a cultural Yvette Tello lieve this way of thinking woman who has good cre- belief that you owe Executive Vice President existed anymore. Clearly, dentials. Learn about them as something to some- I am wrong. What do you an individual. Get involved. one just because Roxanne Eguia Editor In Chief Don’t listen to anyone who they’re Latino. But doesn’t do their home- it’s not just in our Victoria Ward work. culture. The black Graphic Designer Blue Rose Al- / African American Melissa Bryant varez : By the culture is the same Managing Editor same token, way. an inspector. From then on I Latino voters I was a quality assurance Steve Walker kept hearing how nice I was Ricardo Romo should never, supervisor at a plant here for putting a black man in Jessica Duran ever, vote for in Mississippi several years a good position. They were Contributors a Latino poli- ago. There was a guy whom usually taken back when I VOTE tician simply I had gotten to know and would explain that I wanted because he is respected his work ethic and the man hired because of his Latino. Totally attitude. So when a position qualifications and strengths, agree with Bar- opened up in our department, not the color of his skin or bara Ann Mendoza I immediately had him inter- culture. Mead. 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Published and printed in the United Yvette at y.tello@ States of America. La Prensa Texas 210-686-0600 laprensatexas.com 30 de Septiembre de 2018 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 3 About the Cover Artist: Amber Navarro and Brittney Scott unified by convergent roots Scottʼs thick and exhaustive- in Experimental Animation Brittney Scott aka B6 (age and a willful spirit of play. ly smoothed lines curve out from The California Institute 26) is a multidisciplinary Mounted on custom-cut images which are simple but of the Arts in 2015. She has artist and activist from Texas acrylics, Navarroʼs photo- heavy in significance, like been included in exhibitions now based in Los Angeles. graphs depict still lives of isolated memories that in Taipei, Taiwan, New York Her desire for equality in ultra- familiar figurines: have been rounded and City, and LA; as well as society and internet obses- miniaturized San Antonio sweetened by time. Joining the Tateʼs New Museum. sion are the driving themes buildings, horse toy acces- these two series is a collab- Navarro has been featured in her work. sories and nanoscale Texas orative video made by the on DAZED, Nylon, snacks are placed before artists, an homage to the Papermag and is repre- candy-colored backdrops, delightfully opaque plea- sented by Adolescent reflecting a girlhood in Tex- sures of Queso. The show Content as a director. as. Navarro plays with her stands as a grate- memories as though they ful homecoming This Thursday October 4, are Polly Pockets, reflecting by two LA-trans- LA-based artists Amber Na- a sense of lighthearted and plants eager to varro and Brittney Scott re- precious nostalgia. Scottʼs visit a home that turn to their hometown, San paintings, being shown for could never be Antonio, deep in the heart of forgotten! Am- Texas. Situated right across bar Navarro (b. from the river at Flight Gal- 1991) is a direc- lery in San Antonioʼs South- tor, animator, and town Arts District, Navarro curator living and and Scott present a working in Los duet show entitled “Youʼre Angeles. Her Doing Amazing, Sweet work often Tea..” The artists will be deals with fem- exhibiting ininity, intima- entirely new bodies of cy, and tech- work, both of which savor the first time, hang alongside nology. She is San Antonioʼs nicest fea- Navarroʼs acrylics. also interested tures. A Traditional framing and in music video palette of warm primaries stark white backgrounds bear directing and and playful neutrals is kissed well-known symbols of the incorporating with ultra-specifics like ar- Lone Star State: perky mixed media madillos, BBQ, and Lubyʼs Bluebonnets and happy live- into her videos. Cafeteria. While the artists stock are rendered in a style She graduated work in quite separate that is colorful and mis- with a Bache- modes, their practices are chievously straightforward. lor of Fine Arts 4 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 30 de Septiembre de 2018 Lorena Roa De La Cruz Trailblazing in Male Reproductive Health holy grail of achievements. It attempts and sometimes is one of the most prestigious they never work. It’s up to awards in Mexico and the the researcher to take these equivalent of an NSF Gradu- experiences and use them for ate Research Fellowship their growth, to trust them- here in the United States to selves and trust their skills. support her studies. She has Confidence will come when also received accolades from an experiment works out, or the Lalor Foundation and not, and you know why and has received funding from how to fix it,” said Roa de the Larry Ewing Memorial la Cruz. Trainee Travel Fund. She Recently, she was one of has accomplished all of this six Ph.D. students and post- by the age of 27. doctoral trainees selected By Y. Tello Her research focuses on to participate in the Trainee From the mother of marine men’s reproductive health, Research Competition at conservation in the carib- a specialty field called sper- the Society for the Study of bean, Idelisa Bonnely de matogenesis. This is the Reproduction 51st Annual Calventi to the first latina process of sperm production Meeting. She presented her astronaut Ellen Ochoa, lati- in the testicles. While look- results from an experiment nas have made waves in the ing at the faculty research that allowed her to identify field of science for decades. profiles, she found Dr. Brian specific genetic markers to Now one of those latinas is Hermann’s work interesting serve as easy tools to identify Lorena Roa de la Cruz. and immediately immersed which of the cells that make Leaving Your Employer? She left her homeland of herself in this topic. She sperm are present in the Understand Your 401(k) Options. Mexico in 2014 to pursue finds how the human male testicle. This could be a new At Edward Jones, we can explain options for her master’s degree in Eu- reproductive biology works way to diagnose infertility your 401(k), including leaving the money in your former employer’s plan, moving it to rope.