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August 2022 | Vol.3, Iss. 8 RGV LEAD Donates to Texas Southmost College As the saying goes, if you get a great team together, you will be successful. No words could ring more accurately than this year’s Academic Leadership Alliance (A-L-A) Virtual Teacher Summer Externship program. Educators were privileged to listen to a variety of well-spoken professionals from the Rio Grande Valley and beyond. Doctors Hospital at Renaissance was well represented as pharmacists Daniela Bazan, Jonathan Cantu, and Rene Verduzco spoke about their career journeys and the roles they play at the hospital. Dr. Efraim Vela, Associate Program [...]

July 2022 | Vol.3, Iss. 11 The Gift of Giving RGV LEAD hosted the Vitalant blood drive at its office, located at 322 S Missouri Avenue in Weslaco. Vitalant is a nonprofit organization that collects blood from volunteer donors and provides blood, blood products, and services across the United States. The blood donations serve Rio Grande Valley hospitals which provide the RGV community access to possibly life-saving blood. RGV LEAD would like to thank donors for their support. Call 956-213-7500 to find out how you can donate.

Vol.2, Iss. 12 | August 2021 Schneider Electric Gives to RGV LEAD If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. ~ John Quincy Adams Lizzy de la Garza Putegnat, RGV LEAD Board President, exemplifies what a great leader is. Putegnat is constantly working to improve, not only RGV LEAD but the Rio Grande Valley community as a whole. It is easy to recognize the passionate drive Putegnat has in supporting her roles as an Account Executive for Schneider Electric and as a civic organization leader. She [...]

Vol. 2, Iss. 4 | December 2020 Thank you, Royal Technologies! “I just happened to be in the neighborhood!” Janie Johnston Lopez, RGV LEAD contractor, stopped by Royal Technologies to visit Trung Nguyen, Royal Technologies’ plant manager. A heartfelt “Thank-You” was extended to him and the company on behalf of RGV LEAD for its much-valued partnership and in-kind donations to RGV LEAD. Royal Technologies has been instrumental in providing job shadowing opportunities, summer externships for teachers, summer internships for students, and participating in the RGV LEAD-inspired mentoring program. RGV LEAD looks forward to the day when doors can [...]