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Juana Bordas

Juana has dedicated her career to preparing Latino leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She founded Mestiza Leadership International in 1995, which specializes in training and developing a work environment that encourages diversity and effective leadership.

She was the first Latina faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership as well as the founding president and CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute. Formerly, Juana founded Mi Casa Resource Center for Women in Denver, Colorado. While a Peace Corps volunteer, Juana worked with low-income women in Chile.

Juana is the author of Salsa, Soul and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age, which won The International Latino Book Award for the best business book in 2008, and is a contributing author to Reflections on Leadership: How Robert K. Greenleaf’s Theory of Servant-Leadership Influenced Today’s Top Management Thinkers. She has been honored as a Wise Woman by the National Center for Women and Policy Studies. Juana currently also serves on the board of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership.  She is a member of the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and was honored with Denver's 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Socially Responsibility Award.

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