I am a scholarship recipient of the Hispanic Foundation of the Arts and a student speaker at the Noche de Gala in 2001 after Sept. 11. It was a pleasure to speak alongside @Esai_Morales and hear his words of encouragement. Photos of the evening, however, have been lost @cagirl80https://twitter.com/cagirl80/status/1174450919561486337 …
Hispanic Foundation of rhe Arts’s Noche De Gala. Its fancy smanshy. Amazing how U can step out for a few years from DC and still run into the same people I met when I was an intern here. And yes, i wore a simple black cocktail dress w/o a train then too. 
