Society & Culture
Dr. Beatriz Villarreal is the first Mexican student to receive a doctoral degree in education from the University of San Diego since, her arrival in the USA in 1984. She had always been interested in helping and working with Latino people that led to receiving an award from the Mexican consulate, San Diego, for leadership in helping the Latino Community back in 2012. Her assistance experience brought her to light that 70% of Latino children were in jail. After the impactful advisory program “Spectrum Program” of providing support and education to children in Juvenile Hall, she decided to start working on preventing the side through her project and started “Mano a Mano foundation”. This organization is a non-profit foundation with an experience of over 25 years to provide support and education to Latino families. They offer an array of conferences encompassing a variety of educational topics regarding healthy parenting and prevention of drug abuse not only to people in the USA but also to Latin American Countries.