KLRN celebrates local Latina leaders

Martha Jasso

• Published on June 23, 2021 • Last modified on March 23, 2022

What inspires local Latinas to succeed in a challenging world? Family? Culture? Location?

SALUD! celebrates San Antonio Latina business leaders with a look into their world, and their inspiration.

Join host Jenna Saucedo as she talks to Latina leaders, Diana Barrios-Trevino, Owner & Operator of Los Barrios Restaurants; April Monterrosa, Publisher of Live from the Southside Magazine; and Cynthia Teniente-Matson, President of Texas A&M University-San Antonio to learn how they've broken barriers, stigmas, and assumptions of being a female, business-minded Latina.

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April Monterrosa gives credit to growing up with brothers.

Diana Barrios-Trevino shares how the lessons learned from her late mother Viola are in action everyday in the Barrios restaurants.

Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson explains why she was inspired by the saying, “hope is not a strategy”.