Collaboration
Academic Partners
NHFA partners with the Palm Awards, high school theater awards focused on 30 theater high schools from the Rio Grande Valley. Our partnership includes a summer musical residency program for selected nominees and award winners, together with performance opportunities in Washington, D.C. during Hispanic Heritage Month.
NHFA also partners with graduate film and theater programs at NYU, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, USC, UCLA and UT Austin.
Entertainment and Media Partners
NHFA, through our PitchPrograms, has created workforce development programs that provide insight and understanding regarding digital careers of the future. NHFA has helped to channel Latinos interested in careers in media by informing them of opportunities that exist both in front of and behind the camera.
Community Partners
NHFA partners with the Nantucket Film Festival’s ScreenWriter program. This six week remote workshop helps develop and strengthen television and film scripts.
Advocacy In Action
Kennedy Center Honors
The Foundation spearheaded the campaign to get a Latino artist recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors by shining a spotlight on its historic omission of featuring any Latino Kennedy Center Honorees. The year-long campaign was chronicled by Politico, The Washington Post, NBC News and ABC News.
The Honors program has since recognized Martina Arroyo (2013), Carlos Santana (2013), Rita Moreno (2015), Martha Argerich (2016), Gloria & Emilio Estefan (2017), Lin-Manuel Miranda (2018), Linda Ronstadt (2019), Joan Baez (2021), and Justino Diaz (2022).
Saturday Night Live
The Foundation initiated public pressure on SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels concerning the historic lack of representation on SNL. Over a 40-year period, the show had never hired a Latina cast member and had included only two Latino male cast members. Our work eventually led to the hiring of Melissa Villaseñor. The Foundation’s commentary was featured in the Washington Post.