Latinas uniting via online sites

Bello, Marisol. "Latinas uniting via online sites." USA Today, 5 Oct. 2009.

EXCERPT:

Rebecca Aguilar, a former television reporter, grew increasingly frustrated as she sat in her Dallas kitchen last summer watching the confirmation hearings for the first Latina Supreme Court justice.

Aguilar watched senator after senator grill Judge Sonia Sotomayor about her 2001 remark that she hoped "a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male."

Since when, Aguilar thought, is being a "wise Latina" a bad thing? She decided to start Wise Latinas Linked, a social networking group on Facebook, to portray "wise Latinas" as role models.

In two months, the group has grown to nearly 1,700 members. It has become an online plaza where Latinas nationwide, and a few from Canada and Mexico, gather to network, share experiences, trade job information, plug community events and professional efforts, and seek advice on everything from getting a divorce to obtaining a mortgage.