Antonia Pantoja Ethical Leadership

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Imagine a world where you weren’t offered education. Not just the world, imagine instead if everybody here in America, weren’t given access to quality education. Dr. Antonia Pantoja realized that Puerto Rico and the Latin Community did not have access to a quality education. The Dr. Pantoja was a visionary and ethical leader. Dr. Antonia Pantoja was one of the most significant visionary and ethical leaders in the United States, and especially to the Puerto Rican and Latino Community who led the way for them to get educated. She was a visionary leader in advocating the creation of organizations for the benefit of the Latino Community. Her valor and initiative to develop the value of life for people in the Latino Community. She was an ethical …show more content…

Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education LM01 Ethical Leadership lesson [BCEE] (2014e, p. 6) She lived by her core values and had the courage to live by them, despite all the cultural and diverse challenges she faced during the 1950’s. Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education CF03 Critical Thinking lesson, stated that Intellectual Perseverance is “Having a consciousness of the need to use intellectual insights and truths in spite of difficulties, obstacles, and frustrations; firm adherence to rational principles despite the irrational opposition of others; a sense of the need to struggle with confusion and unsettled questions over an extended period of time to achieve deeper understanding or insight” [BCEE] (2014f, p.6). She was very open minded and yet still skeptical in gathering information resources and getting the support on what she believe in helping …show more content…

Antonia Pantoja was an ethical leader because she led by using Dr. Toner’s Three P’s, purpose. Dr. Pantoja put purpose, (her belief that all Latino’s should learn English to be successful) According to drantoniapantojafellowship.org, she helped to organize (HYAA) the Hispanic Young Adult Association. It was created to address the everyday needs of the community that the Migration Division of the Department of Labor could not do. And also helped to organize (PRACA) the Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs. This organization develop leaders on focusing in women’s issues. They help adoption, foster care and promote bilingual early childhood education. One of her many friends and colleague wrote that “she never had a conversation with her when she was not addressing, or worrying about, a social concern or an in justice. Her work was constant, her mind never rested, and everything she did was steeped in her values and ethics.” (Pantoja, Antonia.

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