The 2nd Annual Latino Leaders Worth Watching™ Awards
PDJ Salutes our Second Class of Latino Leaders
Worth Watching™ Award Winners
For more than two decades Profiles in Diversity Journal has honored outstanding individuals who have blazed new trails, welcomed challenges, mentored others, advanced diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the community, and excelled in their chosen fields. Now, PDJ is honoring Latino Leaders with our second Latino Leaders Worth Watching Awards.
The 31 profiles that appear in this issue recognize and celebrate the hard work and impressive achievements of these Latino Leaders. Each award recipient has also provided us with the answers to some interesting questions and an essay that will give you, our readers, a chance to get to know these multitalented, multilingual, and trailblazing individuals a little better.
Welcome to PDJ’s second annual Latino Leaders Worth Watching Awards.
2022 Latino Leaders Worth Watching™ Award Winners
- Advanced Micro Devices – Daniel Chavez – Senior Director, Supply Chain
- Advanced Micro Devices – Sofia McDaniel – Global Consumer Marketing Director
- Advanced Micro Devices – Rhonda Medlin – Senior Manager, Information Technology
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP – Jose Borjon – Senior Policy Advisor
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP – Marissa Román Griffith – Partner
- American Battery Technology Company – Andrés Meza – Chief Operations Officer
- Best Best & Krieger LLP – Alisha M. Winterswyk – Partner
- Co/LAB Lending – Andres J. Munar – Broker/Owner
- Dechert LLP – Mauricio A. España – Partner
- Dickinson Wright PLLC – Cindy A. Villanueva – Of Counsel
- Entergy New Orleans – Deanna Rodriguez – President & CEO
- Freddie Mac – Mario Garcia – Director–Loan Servicing; Investor Reporting; Single-family Operations
- Freddie Mac – Luis Villavicencio – Director, Multifamily Finance
- Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP – Olga Lucia Fuentes – Founding Partner, Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP
- HARMAN – Rodrigo Rihl Kniest – South America Senior Vice President, HARMAN Brazil
- HARMAN – Veronica Morales – Senior Director of Operations & Site Leader for Juarez and El Paso, Texas, Operations
- Jones Walker LLP – Monique Garcia – Partner
- Latham & Watkins – Roderick O. Branch – Deputy Office Managing Partner of firm’s Chicago office
- Latham & Watkins – Elizabeth Deeley – Partner and Global Vice Chair of the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice
- Lincoln Financial Group – Vivian Y. Adams – Assistant Vice President, Underwriting Training & Audit
- Moss Adams LLP – Pedro A. Gonzalez – Assurance Partner, Dallas Office Assurance Leader–Central Region Energy Industry Group Leader
- National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Community Development Fund, Inc. – Marisa Calderon – Executive Director, CDFI; Chief of Community Finance & Mobility, NCRC
- New American Funding – Patty Arvielo – Co-Founder and President
- New York Life – Victor Verastegui – Vice President–NYL Direct Head of Insurance Operations
- Sanford Heisler Sharp – Felicia Gilbert – Managing Partner, San Francisco Office
- Study.com – Adrian Ridner – CEO and Co-Founder
- Ulmer & Berne LLP – Dolores (Lola) Garcia – Partner; Vice Group Leader, Business Litigation
- Venable LLP – Belinda Martinez Vega – Partner; Co-Chair of Venable’s West Coast Litigation Group
- Washington Capital Partners – Daniel Huertas – CEO
- Withum – Christina J. Barea – Business Development Executive
- Zynga Inc. – Claudia Sanchez Wilson – Vice President, Legal
