Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Cloudera

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Cloudera
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Cloudera


We’re greater than every week into Hispanic Heritage Month, which began on September 15 and continues by means of October 15. This month is an annual celebration in america that honors the contributions, tradition, and achievements of Hispanic and Latinx People. Over the subsequent few weeks, we’ll be gathering with fellow Clouderans to replicate on and rejoice, the achievements of the Hispanic and Latinx communities right here within the U.S. and throughout the globe. 

Basically, this month is about sharing what makes every of us distinctive and studying in regards to the cultural variations throughout these communities to raised perceive the experiences that unite us all. 

It’s primed to be a busy month, so let’s dive into what now we have deliberate for an thrilling month of studying, rising, and giving again. 

A Month Stuffed with Motion and Studying

Cloudera’s calendar is stuffed with partaking actions to assist not simply carry consciousness to the Hispanic and Latinx expertise and historical past but additionally to offer again and make an impression on the subsequent era. 

At our most up-to-date occasion, Cloudera volunteers helped Hispanic and Latinx college students at under-resourced colleges improve their LinkedIn profiles. We hung out providing constructive suggestions to construct on what they already had and align them with skilled requirements. Our purpose was to allow these college students to search out safer employment alternatives, construct a powerful skilled model, and study from what different Latinx and Hispanic People are doing, each of their careers and through networking settings like LinkedIn.

Wanting forward, the remainder of the month is jam-packed with enjoyable and informative actions too. On October 8, we’re internet hosting a Hispanic Heritage Month Workshop and a Hispanic and Latin American Historical past and Tradition Trivia Occasion. Each provide an important alternative for attendees to rejoice the varied histories, languages, and heritage of Hispanic and Latinx cultures throughout the U.S. and Latin America. Throughout trivia, we’ll take a look at our data on all the pieces from well-known Hispanic and Latinx figures to historic occasions to popular culture data. 

Whether or not it’s by means of volunteering or trivia, there are quite a few alternatives for Clouderans to get entangled and find out about their colleagues’ experiences. Every exercise this month will assist attendees acquire an appreciation for the lengthy, wealthy, and sophisticated historical past that received us right here, and higher perceive the distinctive views that form the Latinx and Hispanic expertise world wide. 

Reflecting on A Month of Studying and Development

This month is so necessary in serving to carry an actual, significant stage of engagement and connection to Clouderans. As we take part in every of those occasions, it’s necessary to step again and respect the numerous contributions Hispanic and Latinx People have made to the world whereas additionally acknowledging that the idea of Hispanic or Latinx will not be a monolith. So many wonderful cultures and communities are encompassed by these labels and it’s necessary to spotlight and rejoice the distinctive facets of every one. 

Hispanic Heritage Month has been round within the U.S. since 1988. Since then, it’s developed from a weeklong occasion into its personal month-long celebration. This evolution is a testomony to the profound impression of Hispanic and Latinx tradition and historical past within the U.S. As we close to the ultimate weeks of celebration, it’s rewarding to see simply how invested everybody has been in constructing a heat, welcoming atmosphere for staff members to attach and showcase the issues that make them distinctive. 

Be taught extra about how Cloudera is constructing a extra inclusive and various office. 

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