
WHO: NHFA Founder/Actor Jimmy Smits
NHFA Founder/Actor Esai Morales
Demián Bichir (Honoree, Academy Award nominated Actor,
A Better Life)
Cierra Ramirez (Honoree, Actress, Girl in Progress/Secret
Life of the American Teenager)
Gina Rodriguez (Horizon Award recipient, Actress,
Filly Brown/Go For It!)
Stefano Langone (Performer, American Idol 2011 finalist)
Adel L. Morales (Scholarship recipient/speaker)
Raul S. Julia (son of Raul Julia)
Also attending:
Rashaad Ernesto Green (writer/director, Gun Hill Road)
Jesse Garcia (The Avengers)
Kurt Caceres (Ghost Whisperer, Sons of Anarchy)
Jeremy Ray Valdez (Constantine, La Mission)
Antoinette Zel, the new CEO of El Rey Cable Channel
Benjamin Jealous, NAACP President
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard
Rep. Loretta Sanchez
WHAT: The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Noche de Gala
NHFA was created in 1997 to promote Hispanic talent in the
performing arts.



