[Photo] Latino Center offers students resources Victoria Bogatz, Entertainment Editor December 19, 2023
![Discussion time. At an Ollin meeting on Dec. 4 (from left) sophomores Samuel Kucinsky, David Baker, Xavier Swotek, Ivan Gomez, and Joel Aguirre discuss the meaning of palabra, meaning “word” in Spanish. Ollin is the young men’s leadership group with the Latino Center of the Midlands. “While these initiatives are framed as leadership development programs, they extend far beyond that.They function as healing circles, offering a secure space for individuals to express themselves [and] share their experiences,” Ollin facilitator José Avalos said.](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/latinocenterofthemidlands-1200x900.jpg)