The California Community Foundation is dedicated to finding systemic solutions to the biggest issues facing Los Angeles County by addressing the root causes. The foundation gives grants to nonprofit organizations throughout LA that help with poverty, homelessness and racial inequities, and its president and CEO is uniquely equipped to handle her role. Antonia Hernandez tells host Giselle Fernandez she was raised in the Maravilla projects and called derogatory names in school all because she came from Mexico. Determined to prove everyone wrong, she went on to graduate from UCLA's school of law, serve as the head of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and become the first Latina staff counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee under former Sen. Ted Kennedy.
