Wall Street Journal consumer tech reporter Nathan Olivarez-Gilez has been active in the Latino community, starting the National Association of Hispanic Journalists chapter at the University of Arizona.
Nationally, NAHJ has been active since 1984, however, Olivarez-Gilez and a few of his friends became interested in reaching out to other brown-skinned students at UofA during his undergraduate [approx 6-8 years ago] he said. The focus of the association is to increase recruitment and involvement of young Hispanics in the journalism field according to their mission statement.
Olivarez-Gilez has been hailed by the Huffington Post as the greatest Latino tech writer of all time, and has been named one of the 50 greatest Latino voices to follow on Twitter.
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