{"id":27325,"date":"2016-03-31T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T11:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/?p=27325"},"modified":"2016-04-15T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T20:16:04","slug":"rick-najera-to-host-latino-thought-makers-all-star-social-media-panel-at-oxnard-college-on-april-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/rick-najera-to-host-latino-thought-makers-all-star-social-media-panel-at-oxnard-college-on-april-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Najera to Host Latino Thought Makers\u2019 All-Star Social Media Panel at Oxnard College on April 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Social Media Stars &amp; Influencers Vincent Marcus, Ana Flores &amp; David Lopez\u00a0discuss starting out and rise to Internet fame<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/April-13.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27326\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/April-13.jpg\" alt=\"April 13\" width=\"350\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/April-13.jpg 729w, https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/April-13-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>OXNARD<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Oxnard College Institute for Performing Arts presents the next installment of\u00a0Latino Thought Makers\u00a0featuring social media stars and influencers:Vincent Marcus, Ana Flores and David Lopez\u00a0.\u00a0The popular live series platform, hosted by comedian and award-winning writer-director-author\u00a0Rick Najera, will take place on Wednesday, April 13, 2016\u00a0at\u00a0Oxnard College\u2018s Performing Arts Center at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward to Latino Thought Makers with these trailblazing social media experts,\u201d said Ken Sherwood, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Learning at Oxnard College. \u201cI\u2018m excited for them to share their experiences with our students and community, as well as how they became game changers, and how they turned their online passion into a profitable venture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The social media experts will discuss their insight of the current social media state of affairs.Vincent Marcus\u00a0is a social media star, comedian, beatboxer and impressionist. A gifted musician and comedian, Vincent will say he is a professional noisemaker as he takes to the Internet with a full arsenal of voices, impressions and incredible beatbox loops. Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum beats using one\u2019s mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. Vincent is a popular and beloved Vine star.<\/p>\n<p>Ana Flores\u00a0is the founder and CEO of #WeAllGrow Summit and Latino Bloggers Connect (LBC), the first and largest network of digital Latina influencers in the United States. She is the author and founder of Spanglish Baby and co-author of Bilingual is Better. She shares more of her personal life and insights as a Latina mom and entrepreneur on her personal blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/madrevida.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MadreVida.com<\/a>.\u00a0 In 2015, the prestigious Holmes Report named her among their 2015 Innovator 25, as someone who is shaping what influence and engagement will look like tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>David Lopez\u00a0is a content creator specializing in short-form comedic video. He has gained more than 6.4 million followers since displaying his creative characters and slapstick humor on Twitter\u2019s video-sharing mobile application, Vine. David is also the creator of Soccer Dads on Lorne Michaels\u2019 digital network, \u201cMas Mejor\u201d that features comedy created for Latino millennials.\u00a0 He has experienced a fan\/follower engagement of over three billion loops (views.) He is listed as #21 in terms of worldwide following on CollabCreators\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rankzoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RankZoo.com<\/a>, his Facebook recently surpassed 1M Likes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLatino Thought Makers will be off the charts with these digital giants,\u201d stated Najera, who doubles as Oxnard College Institute for Latino Performing Arts Creative Director and host of the Latino Thought Makers Series.<\/p>\n<p>Oxnard College Institute for Latino Performing Arts presents the Latino Thought Makers Series hosted by Rick Najera with special guests\u00a0Vincent Marcus, Ana Flores and David Lopez\u00a0onWednesday, April 13th, doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7pm\u00a0at Oxnard College Performing Arts Center, 4000 S. Rose Ave, Oxnard, CA 93033. Entrance and parking are free.\u00a0 A $5 donation is suggested to benefit the Oxnard College Foundation supporting students in the arts.<\/p>\n<p>View a clip of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/127667928\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Thought Makers HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on Latino Thought Makers, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinothoughtmakers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.latinothoughtmakers.com<\/a>\u00a0or visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/869333486495836\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook invite HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media Stars &amp; Influencers Vincent Marcus, Ana Flores &amp; David Lopez\u00a0discuss starting out and rise to Internet fame OXNARD\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Oxnard College Institute for Performing Arts presents the next installment of\u00a0Latino Thought Makers\u00a0featuring social media stars and influencers:Vincent Marcus, Ana&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/rick-najera-to-host-latino-thought-makers-all-star-social-media-panel-at-oxnard-college-on-april-13\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,9,7,1711,5],"tags":[2284,2631],"class_list":["post-27325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural","category-education","category-entertainment","category-events","category-local","category-news","tag-latino-thought-makers","tag-the-oxnard-college-institute-for-performing-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27327,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27325\/revisions\/27327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}