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September 21, 2007

Progreso Latino turns 30

In 1977, Progreso Latino started working with the Latino and immigrant communities of Rhode Island. Tonight, the group, which works with more than 11,000 people a year, celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Kicking off a new year and a new theme – Latina empowerment – will be keynote speaker, Marisa Rivera-Albert, is president of the National Hispana Leadership Institute.

Rivera-Albert has worked in the academic sector at Black Hawk College and Western Illinois University; in government for the U.S. Embassy in Panama, and an elections observer in Honduras.

Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts and Sen. Rhoda Perry, D-Providence, will serve as honorary co-chairs.

The celebration, which runs tonight from 5:30 to 11, will be at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, 60 Rhodes Place in Cranston.

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