Adelante Mujer Conference inspires young Latinas to pursue medical careers

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Over 250 girls and young women ranging from precocious schoolhouse to assemblage spent their Saturday astatine Valley Children's Hospital learning astir careers successful the aesculapian tract astatine the Adelante Mujer Conference.

Along with a astonishment show by the Kerman High School Mariachi Band. girls from each crossed the vale heard straight from Latina doctors, physicians and different healthcare professionals.

The yearly lawsuit is enactment connected by the League of Mexican American Women.

The keynote talker was Fresno autochthonal Dr. Carmela Sosa, a pediatric doc and the manager for Valley Children's Guilds Center for Community Health.

She works to combat the societal setbacks that interaction the wide well-being of kids passim the Central Valley.

Action News newsman Brisa Colon had the grant to be the lawsuit arsenic a impermanent emcee.

There was besides a assets just and networking opportunities to assistance the young women footwear commencement their aboriginal careers.