Panel 4

Panel 4 was "The Hispanic Community of Hampton Roads." This especially interested me because I am from Newport News and there was a lot of useful data that I learned during the presentations. Two of the presenters focused on higher education and latinos in Hampton Roads and Virginia, one talked about immigration in general, and there was also a presentation leadership and cultural differences. Here are some things that I learned:

• 60% of latinos in Hampton Roads are naturalized citizens or native-born while 40% are more recent non-citizen immigrants
• There are 460,000 latinos in Virginia
• Hampton Roads has a relatively small but extremely fast-growing latino community
• Latinos in Virginia have higher incomes and levels of education that the general population on average

Obviously I really enjoyed this panel and I can't wait to see what I will learn tomorrow!