Fifty-one educators, in their own words.
Nuestra Esperanza: What Latinx Education Leaders Need to Thrive is a 2024 issue brief from LatinxEd, built on a survey and focus groups with its Fellows. We designed it.
Visit latinxed.orgA research brief made mostly of other people’s words.
LatinxEd invited all 100 of its Fellows to take a survey and join focus groups about what it’s like to lead in North Carolina education. Fifty-one took part. Most of the brief is their stories, told at length, and a design that trimmed people down to pull quotes would have missed the point.
Room for the long quotes
The quotes run long on purpose, often a full paragraph, with a big quotation mark up front and the speaker’s name at the end. The names are pseudonyms, to protect the people who spoke candidly.
Photos from LatinxEd’s own events, shot by Alberto V. Gonzalez of AV Creatives, sit between the quotes so the pages never turn into a wall of text.
Two halves, two colors
The findings come in two parts. The costs of trailblazing, four challenges lettered A to D, are set in blue. The sources of hope that keep people in the work, numbered 1 to 4, are set in pink. You know which half you’re in before you read a word.
The numbers on one spread
The methodology gets a pink spread of its own: participants mapped by county across North Carolina, 51 people from 21 counties, next to their education, teaching experience and current jobs. It’s the page a skeptical reader flips to first, so everything on it reads at a glance.
A small brand inside a bigger one
Nuestra Esperanza got its own identity inside LatinxEd’s: two pinks, Agrandir Narrow for headlines and Libre Baskerville for reading. Every color pair was checked against the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast standard, so the pink stays readable.
