When Ana Valdez talks about Latinos in the United States, she does not argue from a place of ideology, sentiment, or identity politics. She does it with data. As president and CEO of the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC), Valdez has spent the last decade and a half turning hard numbers into a counterweight against narratives regarding the economic power of the demographic that she says rely too heavily on perception, stereotyping, or political convenience.
"We want facts," she tells The Latin Times. "Not what media says we are. Not what people assume. Facts."
