Latino Progressive Hub Debuts

4RCE Initiatives, Benitez Strategies and Sound Speed PR have joined together to form the Latino Progressive Hub.

The goal is to offer a one-stop, strategic communications shop focused on key issues facing the Latino community such as immigration, labor, healthcare, education and women’s rights.

Blair Fitzgibbon & Felipe Benitez

Sound Speed PR’s president Blair Fitzgibbon has experience advising world leaders, global NGOs, economists and finance ministers on issue campaigns such as tax reform, immigration, environmental justice, human trafficking, labor abuses, hunger, economy, education, politics, technology and disaster response.

Benitez Strategies principal and founder Felipe Benitez currently serves as communications and Latino outreach advisor for Environmental Defense Fund, Voces Verdes and Mi Familia Vota.

(L to R) Susana Flores, Beatriz Lopez & Natalia Jaramillo

Most recently Benitez advised the Catholic Climate Covenant around strategic communications and U.S. Latino outreach for the rollout of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, “Laudato Si,” as well as the Pope’s historic visit to the US in 2015.

4RCE Initiatives’ Susana Flores has more than a decade’s experience cultivating relationships with Latino media.  She played a key role in various campaigns such as “Equality Maryland” and the Maryland Dream Act.

Beatriz Lopez, also from 4RCE, has led communication strategies on immigration reform for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) over the past four years.

Natalia Jaramillo, a bilingual communicator with 15 years of experience in communications for social issues in Colombia, Uruguay and the US, rounds out the staff from 4RCE.  Jaramillo has served as communications manager for the Florida Immigrant Coalition, the leading immigrant rights organization in Florida.