Luis Jimenez on HOPE, Literacy, and Listening to the Community | S2 E7
What happens when you stop deciding what a community needs and start asking?
In this episode of The Missing Book, I sit down with my dear friend Luis Jimenez, founder of Helping Our People Evolve (HOPE). Luis shares how growing up in Washington Heights, struggling to read, and finding teachers who believed in him shaped the work he does today.
We talk about the moment his mother helped him realize that HOPE had to be guided by the community, not by his own ideas alone. That lesson led him to listen to families and children, connect them with local artists and educators, and help more kids…
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