Eagle Award for Leadership Presented to Dr. Juan Andrade

Eagle Award for Leadership Presented to Dr. Juan Andrade

The "Eagle" Award for Leadership was presented to Dr. Juan Andrade in Washington, DC on July 29, 2014.  The award was presented by the Hon. Mickey Ibarra, founder of the Latino Leaders Network (LLN), in recognition of Dr. Andrade's leadership in promoting education, research, and nonpartisan civic participation.  Click  here to see a two-minute video presented at the luncheon. The "Eagle" Award, now in its 10th year, has been presented annually to Latino leaders in government, politics, business, labor, media, entertainment, and community service who have reached the highest level of excellence in their respective field.  Honorees in 2014 have included PepsiCo executive Richard Montanez, television actor Adam Rodriguez, and USHLI President Dr. Juan Andrade.  Being honored this fall will be the Hon. Maria Contreras-Sweet, recently appointed Administrator of the Small Business Administration and a member of the Cabinet by the President. In accepting the award Dr. Andrade said "I want to thank God for the life I've had a chance to live and a very understanding and long-suffering wife; for it's not I being honored today, but the Almighty who called me to serve and my wife who let me answer the call... I was born a Dreamer and given a mission, a mission that has served as my purpose in life.  Every day I get up is another day to fight the good fight...  Don't ever give up fighting for our community.  Justice is on the side of time, and time is on our side... Don't be afraid of consequences.  Take it from this happy warrior - consequences only make the victories all that much sweeter... success is NOT measured by how high you climb.  It's measured by how far you can reach.  True success is NOT longitudinal.  It's horizontal.  The difference is very simple.  If you measure success only by how high you climb, it's for you.  But if you measure success by how far you reach, it's for others.  So young people always reach wide, and let the height take care of itself...  I am a Dreamer who has dreamed the impossible dream... And I just want to be remembered as a boy who came from the cotton fields of Texas and took his fight to every battlefield he could find, and that he died the way he lived - a man who ran the good race, fought the good fight, and kept the faith." Dr. Andrade and USHLI are very grateful to Mickey Ibarra and the Latino Leaders Network for this prestigious award.