How Patriarchy Hurts Our Hermanas - with advocate Amy Hinojosa
Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Amy is joined by President and CEO of MANA, Amy Hinojosa, for a phenomenal conversation about Latina Americans, immigration, abortion, advocacy, and the issues of humanity that unite us all.
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Amy Hinojosa is the president and CEO of MANA, a national Latina organization, the oldest and largest Latina membership organization in the United States, and its sister organization, MANA Action Fund. MANA focuses on strengthening Latina women and girls through mentoring, education and advocacy. Amy has extensive experience working on local and national grassroots campaigns targeted at mobilizing voices and actions in Hispanic communities across the country. Community education and engagement have been central to Amy's work with a particular emphasis on youth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee, All the Best. In 1974, a group of women in Washington, D.C., decided it was time to give a voice to Mexican-American women, women who are being excluded from important conversations, from conversations about their own communities. Together, over a series of weekend brunches, |
| 0:21.4 | these four brilliant women, Blondina Cardenas Ramirez, Gloria Hernandez, Eddie Baca, |
| 0:27.2 | and Charlene Maldonado envisioned a new organization addressing misogyny and gender bias. |
| 0:33.6 | They called it the Mexican-American Women's National Association, |
| 0:36.7 | which today has evolved into Mana, a national Latino organization and the largest Latino organization in the United States. |
| 0:44.4 | For decades now, Mana has been adapting and organizing to meet the challenges of new generations of Latinas nationwide. |
| 0:52.7 | And now, 51 years later, challenges facing Latina |
| 0:56.2 | Americans continue to loom while Mana continues to rise to these challenges through advocacy, |
| 1:02.5 | leadership, education, and more. And I am so excited to dig into this work. And I'm honored to be |
| 1:08.0 | joined today by the national president and CEO of Mana. Amy Inojosa. Welcome, Amy. Amy, it I'm honored to be joined today by the national president and CEO of Mana. Amy |
| 1:11.4 | Inojosa. Welcome, Amy. Amy, it's so great to be with you. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:16.9 | Amy Inohosa is the president and CEO of Mana, a national Latino organization, the oldest and |
| 1:22.4 | largest Latina membership organization in the United States, and its sister organization, |
| 1:27.2 | Mana Action Fund. |
| 1:28.7 | Mono focuses on strengthening Latino women and girls through mentoring, education, and advocacy. |
| 1:34.3 | Amy has extensive experience working on local and national grassroots campaigns targeted |
| 1:38.9 | at mobilizing voices and actions in Hispanic communities across the country. |
| 1:43.8 | Community education and engagement |
| 1:45.4 | have been central to Amy's work with a particular emphasis on youth. So Amy, I would love to hear |
| 1:53.0 | a little bit about where you come from and what brought you to do the work that you do today. |
| 1:58.8 | And when I say where you come from, what I mean is, |
| 2:05.0 | like, your family background, your educational background, just the things that were factors and the way you grew up that brought you to be who you are. Well, you know, everyone's got an |
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