Minerva Perez is the executive director of the Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island — providing services that can help a child or adult integrate into a community and study, work and thrive. Latino20
Minerva Perez has made it her mission to fill a crucial void — providing services that can help a child or adult integrate into a community and study, work and thrive.
Perez started out as a volunteer in the organization and is now its first executive director. She's taken the agency in an expanded direction, and its services include educational workshops, computer classes and forums, as well as partnerships with the community, such as a bilingual police hotline for families as well as diversity training for local police. Perez helped launch a free van ride program so families could get to medical or other appointments.
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