Chicanx-Latinx Law Review

The true impact of the Symposium will be defined in three key ways: 1) the direction and magnitude of Latinas teaching at U.S. law schools, 2) the fluency of people in positions of power to integrate a Latina lens to decision-making across issues, and 3) the frequency and breadth of Latina-led interventions to build infrastructure that substantively responds to the needs of Latinas and similarly situated populations. Until then, today’s dereliction of law and policy to integrate Latina leaders into positions of power and influence requires a new narrative, one that articulates a basis for institutional, structural, and systemic remediation of white-led, white-serving institutions, should society attempt to meaningfully salvage the nation’s frail democratic institutions. Ultimately, the persistence of a status quo that renders Latinas and other similarly situated cohorts invisible, unimportant, or worse, erased, is not only perilous, but unsustainable. Present and future existential crises like worsening inequality, climate disasters, and artificial intelligence cannot be solved with an outright dependence on the acquiescence of a youthful and growing Latina cohort to an economic, political, and social agenda that has yet to depart from a non-Hispanic white imagination. Solutions to contemporary and future challenges exist; the Latina Futures Symposium is emblematic of the agency, dexterity, and ingenuity of Latina leaders when they are given the resources to lead.