San Marcos Record, San Marcos, TX

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December 3, 2009

Latinitas club selling photos in San Marcos

Give a child or a teen a camera and she'll give you perspective you never considered, says Latinitas' Program Coordinator Brooke Maudlin.

Maudlin is one of many program facilitators for Latinitas' (www.latinitasmagazine.org), the first digital magazines made for and by young Latinas, outreach programs in Central Texas.

Latinitas will display and sell photos on from noon to 3 p.m. Dec. 6 from its Hays County programs at Wake the Dead Coffeeshop (1432 Ranch Road 12).

Student photography generated in Latinitas' dozens of after school clubs will be on display for sale at $5-$10.

"This is not just a great resource for holiday gifts, but the Hispanic girls and teens in our programs will see their work appreciated by others than themselves," Maudlin said. "The resulting confidence boost is what we aim for in these clubs."

Started more than six years ago in a University of Texas media class, then-students, now founders Alicia Rascon and Laura Donnelly Gonzalez publish the work of Latina girls, teens and college students online every month on Latinitasmagazine.org and TeenLatinitas.org.

They launched their first print edition of the magazine in 2009 and plan a second in 2010.

Latinitas has served nearly 10,000 girls with its esteem-boosting after school programming, camps, workshops, media conference, service learning opportunities and a teen reporter internship - outreach models Latinitas are positioning for national expansion. Latinitas magazines' bilingual content is read by girls and teens all over the country as well as in Spain, Mexico and other parts of Latin America.

Latinitas also expanded its program model to El Paso and Las Cruces, New Mexico for the first time last year.

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