ImpactoAZ kicks off its second season featuring a discussion with our friend and supporter David López, a law professor with an impressive body of work in employment and civil rights law and considerable knowledge on the workings of the court. Respected civil rights and employment law professor David López recently shared his analysis of three recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions dealing with immigration issues. Two of those decisions may be setting U.S. policy on a dangerous course that...

Playwright James García combed through records, archives, historical documents and oral histories to craft his one-act play on the Legion, with hopes of it turning into a full-length play in 2027. James García, playwright/journalist. One recurring theme playwright James García kept returning to when researching his upcoming one-act play on the founding of the Phoenix-based American Legion Post 41was that the founders and the community that supported their efforts were after equality. They...

Gilbert Bailón, a former high-level editor at major newspapers and in public media, talks with ImpactoAZ about his new role at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Gilbert Bailón, deputy director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Gilbert Bailón built a successful journalism career that eventually led to top management roles at the Dallas Morning News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Chicago Public Media. Now he's back with an organization that supported him from...